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Navel Gazing: November 8th, 2009
Posted by adam on Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 10:00 PM (EST)
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Hello everybody and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back at the week in Punknews. I'm Adam White and I'll be your guide through some of the most popular, notable, and otherwise attention getting stories of the past seven days. Each and every Punknews story is built from tips contributed by you fine folks, and here's what got the community talking this week...

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A Los Angeles judge has blocked the use of the Sublime name by bandmembers Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh. The estate of original vocalist Bradley Nowell filed a trademark infringement suit on October 21, in advance of the band's performance at the Cypress Hill Smokeout Festival. Radiohead's Ed O'Brien raised some eyebrows with his suggestion that bandwidth throttling could be used to combat illegal downloading. The line up of the 2010 Harvest of Hope festival is coming into view, with Off With Their Heads, Small Brown Bike, Anti-Flag, and Dead to Me slated to perform. Dashboard Confessional and New Found Glory cancelled their planned tour this past week. We also had footage of the greatest Misfits cover band ever, featuring Ted Leo, Atom Goren of Atom and his PAckage and Andy Nelson of Paint It Black.

Asian Man detailed the upcoming Matt Skiba solo record , titled Demos and due in February. Controversial hardline group Vegan Reich are writing and rehearsing a new record. The same goes for Propagandhi, who are working on the follow up to Supporting Caste. Detournement, which features members of Bigwig, Ensign, Lifetime, Plan A Project and Worthless United, are planning a new 7-inch. Defunct ska-punk act Five Iron Frenzy revealed plans for a DVD. Dead To Me streamed their new record African Elephants. A radio station chatted with Descendents frontman Milo Aukerman about his current and future plans.

This week we said goodbye to founding Smugglers drummer Paul Preminger.
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The Punknews crew at the Fest may have done more festing than live-reporting, but they did come back home with some cool video footage. Check out Broadway Calls performing "Midnight Hour" and "Van Rides and High Tides," Shook Ones performing a cover of Weezer's "Tired of Sex", How Dare You playing "Eat at Charlie's", and the Sidekicks performing "Looking."

Chuck Ragan, Strike Anywhere and Lucero topped your list of Your Favorite Records from October. This week we spoke with vocalist Ki Seok So of The Geeks (interview), " bassist Frédéric Leclercq of DragonForce (interview), Ned Russin, Shane Moran and Ben Russin of Title Fight (interview), Jeff Rosenstock of Bomb The Music Industry! (interview), and guitarist Dominic Maggiolo of I Refuse (interview).

As always we brought you new streaming music from some great up and coming bands, including the new full length from Cloak/Dagger, and new material from Durham, NC-based Red Collar.

So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from Dashboard Confessional, Dead To Me, Franz Nicolay, Gatorface, Teenage Rehab, The Flatliners, Throwdown, and many others. We'll also see a number of tours kick off this week. Look for upcoming shows from AFI with Gallows (US / Canada), Motorhead, The Damned and Girlschool (UK), Quest For Fire (Canada / US), Rx Bandits supporting Glassjaw (US), Bowling For Soup with MC Lars (US), Less Than Jake with the Swellers, the Casualties, Fishbone and others (US), and Madball (South America, UK).

Click Read More to check out our ongoing contests, new streaming music, social networking links and more.

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This Very Day becomes As Bold as Lions
Posted by brian on Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 9:00 PM (EST)
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Canadian Christian straight-edge act This Very Day have changed their name to As Bold as Lions.

The band will release a new EP on December 8th.

One feels the band may just be setting themselves up for another name change, however...

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Videos: Baroness: "A Horse Called Golgotha"
Posted by brian on Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 7:30 PM (EST)
Relapse Records

Baroness have premiered their new video for "A Horse Called Golgotha." You can click Read More for the clip.

The song is taken from the band's recent effort for Relapse, Blue Record.

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Kung Fu signs Knock-Out
Contributed by an Anonymous Source. Posted by brian on Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 6:00 PM (EST)
Kung Fu Records

Kung Fu has awoken from a considerable slumber and signed Riverside, CA punk/reggae act Knock-Out.

The label will soon digitally release the band's discography, which includes Let Go, Another Wasted Night and The Christmas EP.

The band will also support the Vandals and Voodoo Glow Skulls on their forthcoming west coast Winter Formal tour. You can click Read More for those dates.

They are likely not to be confused with the defunct Chicago pop-punk band of the same name.

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Smoke or Fire recording new album
Contributed by TheChemist. Posted by brian on Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 4:30 PM (EST)
Fat Wreck Chords

Smoke Or Fire are recording a new album.

The band is looking at a tentative mid-2010 release for their third full-length under the Smoke or Fire moniker, and first since 2007's This Sinking Ship on Fat Wreck.

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Videos: Saves The Day: "Let It All Go" (acoustic)
Contributed by Bryne. Posted by brian on Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 3:00 PM (EST)
Vagrant Records

Saves The Day have posted a video of a new song titled "Let It All Go" performed acoustically. You can check it out by clicking Read More.

The song will appear in full-band form on Daybreak, which is expected out on Vagrant early next year, following on 2007's Under the Boards.

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Glassjaw tapped to support Brand New on UK show
Posted by brian on Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 1:30 PM (EST)
Warner Music Group

Glassjaw have been tapped to support Brand New's forthcoming headlining show at London's Wembley Arena. The show will take place January 23, 2010.

The two will kick off a U.S. tour together next week.

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