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...

So you know Chuck Biscuits of Danzig, Social Distortion, Black Flag, D.O.A. and a half dozen other cool bands? Totally not dead. The internet went crazy a few days ago when a blogger's report of his death went viral. It turns out Chuck is indeed alive and the blogger was strung along in a good ol' six month long hoax that cumulated in the death announcement. Punknews bears some responsibility in perpetuating that rumour without adequate fact checking and for that we apologize.

From the "actual news" department we had word that the Suicide Machines would be reuniting for a benefit show in November. Split Lip / Chamberlain announced a reunion show in New York City. Bud Gaugh discussed the future of Sublime and we got word of the conflict over the usage of the band's name. Jawbox frontman J. Robbins also recently addressed rumours that the band would be reuniting for more shows beyond their appearance on Jimmy Fallon. They won't. The Lawrence Arms posted a live video of "Recovering the Opposable Thumb" from their recent anniversary performance. The Alkaline Trio's Dan Andriano covered the Larrys' "The First Eviction Notice" at the same event. The Lawrence Arms also posted the bonus track from their new EP for free.
Vocalist Nick Barham left Attack! Attack!. Armor for Sleep called it quits. The Misfits' Jerry Only hosted Sirius-XM radio on Halloween. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones detailed their new record Pin Points and Gin Joints Tom Gabel discussed Against Me!'s upcoming full length White Crosses Sound Study Recordings will release Live at The Atlantic Vol. III with tracks from Ruiner, Gatorface, Tiltwheel and others. Off With Their Heads has been tapped to support Municipal Waste on tour. Green Day posted the video for "21st Century Breakdown" from their recent album of the same name. Tegan and Sara also unveiled their clip for "Hell." This week also saw plans to immortalize Milo Aukerman of Descendents and GG Allin as polyresin figurines. We live in a weird world folks. This week we spoke with vocalist Sam Sutherland of Junior Battles (interview), Greg Barnett of The Menzingers (interview), Jonathan and Nick Diener of the Swellers (interview), Lauren, Tim, Fid and Mikey of the Measure SA (interview), Jason Cruz of Strung Out (interview), and Underground Operations act Lights (interview).

As always we brought you new streaming music from some great up and coming bands, including the new digital EP from Foundation, and a new track from Landmines new EP.

So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from Foo Fighters, Morrissey, Nirvana, Say Anything, Slayer, The King Khan and BBQ Show, Weezer and many others. We'll also see a number of tours kick off this week. Look for upcoming shows from Mad Caddies (Canada), Shook Ones with Make Do And Mend and We Are The Union (US / Canada), All-American Rejects and Taking Back Sunday (US), The Pixies (US), The Toasters with Voodoo Glow Skulls, Deal's Gone Bad and others (Ska is Dead IV), Dropkick Murphys with the Flatliners and others (US / Canada), D.R.I. (US), and Municipal Waste (US, Canada).

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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...

Riverboat Gamblers guitarist Ian Mcdougall was injured last weekend in a bike accident. He was hit by a car while riding home and suffered a broken hip, a wrist and hemorrhaging under the skull along with many lacerations, torn ligaments, bruises and and scrapes. While his prognosis is better than his bandmates first assumed he's facing a long recovery and some monster hospital bills. Fat Wreck Chords has announced their plans to release a 3 CD boxed set titled Wrecktrospective The first CD will contain classic tracks from the label's back catalog, the second will contain demo and unreleased tracks, while the third will feature songs from the original 2001 Fat Club 7-inch series. The Lawrence Arms will film their upcoming 10th Anniversary show on October 24th in Chicago. The band is also streaming two new songs from their upcoming EP. Blink-182's Mark Hoppus came out in support of health care reform in a new Huffington Post editorial. The musician writes about a member of the catering crew on the Blink's summer tour who had to have an appendix removed but lacked insurance due to a "pre-existing conditions." Her bill reached more than $48,000. This being the Halloween season we're also seeing the barriers between worlds break down, leading to all manor of terrifying evils entering our world. Case in point: Hole has plans to reunite.

A Wilhelm Scream has announced a new EP and posted a new song from the release. Against Me! has titled their next album White Crosses. Epitaph has planned to reissue a number of records from the Blood Brothers, including Young Machetes, Crimes, Burn Piano Island, Burn and March on Electric Children. Propagandhi has announced plans to play a show with Metal legends Sacrifice. Anti-Flag is soon to hit the road with Aiden, Cancer Bats and Fireworks. North Lincoln is calling it a day. Their final show will take place in their hometown of Grand Rapids, MI on December 19 at Mulligan's Pub. An AFI cover of David Bowie's "Ziggy Stardust" was posted this week. Finally this week saw videos of Lily Allen's "Who'd Have Known" and Weezer's "(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To." This week we spoke with singer Bjorn Dossche of Rise and Fall (interview), frontman Dave Hause of The Loved Ones (interview), Thrice lead singer Dustin Kensrue (interview), Mike Kinsella of Owen (interview).

As always we brought you new streaming music from some great up and coming bands, including former ALL and current Drag the River member Chad Price's first solo album, the new self-recorded, self-produced, self-released sophomore album from the Braces, Brooklyn, NY-based Laura Stevenson and the Cans, and a brand new song from Indianapolis, IN-based Native.

So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from Atreyu, Between The Buried And Me, Foundation, Tegan and Sara, The Creepshow, and The Lawrence Arms and many others. We'll also see a number of tours kick off this week. Look for upcoming shows from The Creepshow with the Dreadnoughts and the Hypnophonics (Canada), Silverstein and Madina Lake with I See Stars and The Word Alive (US), Faith No More (South America), Star Fucking Hipsters and Citizen Fish with Molotov Compromise (US), Bodyjar (Farewell Tour), The Specials (UK), Big D and the Kids Table (US), and Isis and Dälek with Mamiffer (Europe).

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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...

Popular political punks Anti-Flag have announced a series of shows in London, Berlin, and Vienna that will see the Pittsburg-based act performing Clash covers. The Misfits are set to return with their first new studio material since 2003 with their Land of the Dead 12" . Blink-182's much loved Enema of the State full length is set to receive a vinyl release a decade after the fact via Mightier Than Sword Records. Apple this week countered rumours that had been swirling about their new iTunes LP format. The company has confirmed that the format will be open to both major and indie labels and that the enhanced digital releases would carry not production fee.

Weezer launched a new subscription iTunes pass for their upcoming album, providing a Clash cover as part of the bonus content. Frontman Rivers Cuomo also announced plans to collaborate with Katy Perry. Panic Records has signed a pair of new bands, including Hartford, CT's Hostage Calm and Syracuse, NY's Another Breath. The Riot Before released a new acoustic EP for free download. Jon Cougar Concentration Camp plans to cover the entirety of Screeching Weasel's My Brain Hurts on their new LP. Tom Waits announced plans to release a two-disc live album in November. Japan and Malaysia will soon witness the MxPx All-Stars featuring MxPx singer/bassist Mike Herrera backed by The Ataris' frontman Kris Roe on guitar and the Summer Obsession's Chris Wilson on drums. Against Me!, Alexisonfire and Billy Talent will tour Canada. No Use For A Name are headed to Indonesia, Malaysia, China, and Japan. Less Than Jake has a number of upcoming shows with bands like the Swellers, Fishbone, and Casualties. NOFX is headed south to Mexico, Panama, and Costa Rica. This week saw video of a Dillinger Four house show in Tempe, AZ. Rancid unveiled their clip for "Up To No Good." New Found Glory also posted "Don't Let Her Pull You Down."

This week we said goodbye to Brendan Mullen (1949-2009), founder of historic Hollywood punk club The Masque. This week we spoke with Jeff Dean of The Bomb (interview), singer Ty Vaughn of Broadway Calls (interview), bassist Ryan of Defiance, Ohio (interview), and Matt Tobey, Ginger Alford and Mike Harpring Jr. of Good Luck (interview).

Our Dispatches series of band blogs featured British singer-songwriter Mike Scott, currently on tour with Kevin Seconds (Episode 3). As always we brought you new streaming music from some great up and coming bands, including the new full length from Scranton, PA's Captain, We're Sinking, new music from Pittsburgh's American Armada, and 10 songs from new Red Scare act the Reaganomics.

So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from Chad Price, Converge, Failure's Union, Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine, Star Fucking Hipsters, the Slits, the Reaganomics and many others. We'll also see a number of tours kick off this week. Look for upcoming shows from Green Day (UK), Bouncing Souls with Bayside and Broadway Calls (US), the Damned (US), Propagandhi with The Rebel Spell (Canada), Bad Brains (US), and Thrice with The Dear Hunter and Polar Bear Club (US).

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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...

Rise Against have responded to a controversy stirred up by Florida radio station BUZZ103. The band commented that "we discovered that we were scheduled to headline a stage sponsored by the US Army's Recruitment Dept. As a band that has worked in counter-recruitment in the past, we decided it would be hypocritical and inappropriate for us to headline this stage. To be clear, this was not an event to honor the military, this was an event that the US ARMY was interested in recruiting people at, and we felt that our fans should be free from that interference at a rock show on a Sunday night in a time of war." On his ongoing tour garage punk Jay Reatard has seen every member of his band quit. He responded with his usual level of bombast. A venue in Los Gatos, California has banned all-ages shows and upended their concert schedule due to a complaint regarding an interaction between a 13 year old and a man in his 20s at the venue. A recent study crunched the numbers on album sales last year, revealing that out of 115,000 albums that were released only 110 sold more than 250,000 copies, only 1,500 topped 10,000, and fewer than 6,000 sold more than 1,000.

The Lawrence Arms have detailed their upcoming EP Buttsweat And Tears. Members of Screeching Weasel, Rise Against, and Common Rider, along with the nephew of the President of Panama, are set to release a new full length under the name Torture The Artist. The Gaslight Anthem have planed a food drive for New York City on their upcoming October 15th. The Fest (documentary) preview and Dillinger Four set video National Underground have posted a preview of their upcoming documentary about the The Fest as well as a Dillinger Four set from last year's event. Against Me! have posted another studio video, this time chronicling their 45th day working on their new album. The upcoming video game Tony Hawk: Ride will include music from Replacements, NOFX, Green Day, Bronx, and the Stooges. This week also saw videos from AFI (the single "Medicate") and Brand New (the unreleased video for "Jesus"). Oh, and Yahoo! declared punk dead. Since Google ate their lunch they've got a lot of free time on their hands.

This week we said goodbye to Jon Guthrie (1983-2009), veteran of several Athens, GA bands. Our Food Not Songs series of punk rock recipes featured Lemuria making Bugbear Squares. This week we spoke with Shane Told of Silverstein (interview), Andrew Vivian Horne of Bangers (interview), frontman Steve Brodsky of Cave In (interview), and Kenny Bridges of Moneen (interview).

Our Dispatches series of band blogs featured British singer-songwriter Mike Scott, currently on tour with Kevin Seconds (Episode 2). Our Video of the Week featured the Gaslight Anthem covering Hot Water Music's "Trusty Chords" on their recent tour. As always we brought you new streaming music from some great up and coming bands, including the new full length from Buffalo's Failures' Union, and the sophomore LP from Nothington titled Roads, Bridges and Ruins.

So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from Baroness, Junius, Say Anything, The Scenics and many others. We'll also see a huge number of tours kick off this week. Look for upcoming shows from Chuck Ragan with Jim Ward, Tim Barry, and Dave Hause (Revival Tour), Street Dogs with Civet (Europe), Flogging Molly and Gallows with others (Canada), All-American Rejects with American Steel (US), Glen Matlock of the Sex Pistols (UK) Poison The Well (Japan, Australia), Down By Law and the Spears (US), The King Khan and BBQ Show (North America), The Hold Steady with Two Cow Garage (US), Bane with Blacklisted and Foundation (US), and New Found Glory (US).

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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...

Andrew W.K., citing a recent "intense personal experience," has decided to relocate his upcoming tour dates away from religious venues. While he was light on the details, he stated that "I love going to churches and hearing music there - but I can't play my music on that sort of stage after what happened." Amanda Palmer of the Dresden Dolls got people talking this week with a blog post about fan donations. She commented "If you think i’m going to pass up a chance to put my hat back down in front of the collected audience on my virtual sidewalk and ask them to give their hard-earned money directly to me instead of to Roadrunner Records, Warner Music Group, Ticketmaster, and everyone else out there who’s been shamelessly raping both fan and artist for years, you’re crazy." John Joseph of Cro-Mags fame announced that his upcoming novel would be titled Meat Is For Pussies. Film industry news sources this week announced that Fox Searchlight is interested in the upcoming Ramones biopic. Research firm Forrester Research stated that the music industry needs a "radical overhaul" to thrive. The report, as covered by Ars Technica, states that users should be able to "completely customize and share their music in an extremely open, platform-agnostic manner."

Thomas of Strike Anywhere annotated their new album Iron Front with a track-by-track preview. Fall Out Boy is set to release a Greatest Hits CD soon. Social Distortion's guitarist discussed their new album. The classic punk act hit the Foo Fighters' studio this week. This week the schedule for The Fest 8 was announced. Streetlight Manifesto is playing a show at the Starland Ballroom tonight that features every track from the records Everything Goes Numb and Somewhere in the Between. This week saw North American tour dates from Thursday, Dillinger Escape Plan, and Fake Problems, European tour dates from All-American Rejects and American Steel. Footage of the Gaslight Anthem playing the Beatles' "Come Together" was also unveiled this week.

This week we said goodbye to The Death Set co-founder Beau Velasco (-2009) and Trial / Three Inches of Blood member Brian Redman (1978-2009). Our Food Not Songs series of punk rock recipes featured Lemuria making Bugbear Squares. Banner Pilot, Teenage Bottlerocket and Cobra Skulls topped the list of Your Favorite Records from September. This week we spoke with Chris Wollard of Hot Water Music, the Draft and now Chris Wollard and the Ship Thieves (interview), guitarist / vocalist Paul Pendley of Red City Radio (interview), guitarist Nick Bergheimer of Landmines (interview), guitarist Mike McLeod of madcowboys (interview), David “Spoonboy” Combs of The Max Levine Ensemble (interview), and AFI frontman Davey Havok (interview). As always we brought you new streaming music from some great up and coming bands, including the Cherry Poppin' Daddies re-release of Susquehanna.

So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from Built To Spill, Cheap Girls, Gogol Bordello, HORSE The Band, Lucero, Mission Of Burma, Nothington, Relient K, Strike Anywhere and many others. We'll also see a huge number of tours kick off this week. Look for upcoming shows from Swingin' Utters (US), Frank Turner and Fake Problems (UK), Bob Mould (US), Alexisonfire and Anti-Flag with Ghost of a Thousand and the Fall of Troy (Europe), Nothington (US), The Phenomenauts and Go Jimmy Go (US), and Teenage Bottlerocket with Cobra Skulls (US). This week will also see on of the Small Brown Bike reunion shows (details).

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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...

Anti-Flag was forced to cancel their "G20 Welcoming Party" show in their hometown of Pittsburg due to the proximity of their venue to the expanded security perimeter surrounding the summit. They encouraged fans to get out and protest anyways. Matt Bellamy of Muse kicked up a heated discussion by suggesting that all internet data usage be progressively taxed to subsidize artists. Tech industry blog TechCrunch has been increasingly critical of similar musician-bred solutions to the issue, sarcastically suggesting we should just throw up our hands and ban music. This comes after some in the music industry suggested that royalties should be collected for usage such as 30 second song samples in digital stores. Scientists decided to pit vinyl against CD and digital formats in an attempt to quantify fidelity with interesting results. Critically acclaimed hip hop artist and actor Mos Def is collaborating with Damon Dash of Roc-A-Fella Records to produce a documentary about pioneering Detroit punk outfit Death.

Social Distortion is set to hit the studio in January of 2010 to work on new material. forgetters, which features Jawbreaker/Jets to Brazil frontman Blake Schwarzenbach and original Against Me! drummer Kevin Mahon, is set to record a 7" in October. Label Paper and Plastick is set to release Frank Turner's First Three Years LP. Weezer revealed their Raditude track listing and bonus material. We also saw artwork from the debut from Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine. This week saw streams of three big upcoming records, those being AFI's Crash Love, the Swellers Ups and Downsizing and Strung Out's Agents of the Underground. The recently reunited Small Brown Bike has been confirmed for The Fest 8. Converge is set to kick off a two month tour of the US with Mastodon, and High on Fire among others. Hot Water Music is also set to get back together for a November tour of Germany. This week brought a video from Brand New for the song "At the Bottom" and images of Iggy Pop from the Lego Rock Band video game. This week we spoke with Calvinball guitarist / vocalist Dave Wolinsky (interview), Fred Mascherino of The Color Fred (formerly of Taking Back Sunday) (interview), Chicken, Nathan Grice, and Ian Anderson of Dead To Me (interview), Peter Helmis of Algernon Cadwallader (interview), and Rory Henderson of American Steel (interview).

Our Dispatches series of band blogs featured British singer-songwriter Mike Scott, currently on tour with Kevin Seconds (Episode 1). As always we brought you new streaming music from some great up and coming bands, including the new full length from Baltimore, Maryland's Ruiner, and new material from London-based Apologies, I Have None.

So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from AFI, Doomriders, Evergreen Terrace, Krum Bums, Paramore, Strung Out and the Swellers. We'll also see a huge number of tours kick off this week. Look for upcoming shows from Nobunny and Jay Reatard (US), Weatherbox (US), Dinosaur Jr. (US), Brand New with Manchester Orchestra, Thrice, Glassjaw (US), Senses Fail (US), Strung Out (US), Bridge & Tunnel (US), Strike Anywhere with Crime in Stereo, Polar Bear Club, Ruiner (US), AFI (US), Moneen (US), Apostle of Hustle with Gogol Bordello (US), and the Misfits (Mexico, US, Canada).

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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...

So this website has been around for around a decade now! Who knew? Our good friends at Pastepunk were apparently keeping track and they graciously decided to chat with Punknews' Aubin Paul, Adam White and Brian Shultz to celebrate the occasion. Speaking of ten year anniversaries, Rise Against have one coming up. The band will celebrate with a show in Chicago dubbed "Songs from the Fat Years" that will feature just that, including cuts from 2001's The Unraveling and 2003's Revolutions Per Minute. Weakerthans frontman John K. Samson is set to release a 7 inch series honouring the roads of his home province of Manitoba. Poison The Well were the latest band to suffer theft on the road, losing their van and gear from a hotel parking lot in Detroit.

This week brought news that the Smashing Pumpkins are set to release a 44-song album periodically and for free. London's The Steal are calling it quits. This week had upcoming show announcements from the reunited Small Brown Bike. We also had word that Shook Ones, Title Fight and We Are the Union are set to tour together. We had more Fest 8 confirmations from Sakes Alive!!, We Are The Union, Defeater, Hostage Life and many more. Brand New unveiled their new record Daisy in a limited stream. Green Day unveiled the new video for their single "East Jesus Nowhere," and also performed the song live at VMAs. All Time Low also posted their clip for "Damned If I Do Ya (Damned If I Don't)." Tom Gabel had some fun with the latest Against Me! studio video, addressing concerns that his others were boring. The trailer for new punk rock-themed web sitcom Oblivion also premiered this week. Artist Rob Dobi also added 5 new scenesters to his Your Scene Sucks collection.

This week we said goodbye to legendary punk poet Jim Carroll (1949-2009). This week we spoke with vocalist Deeker Johnston of Joey Terrifying (interview), bassist Ray Carlisle of Teenage Bottlerocket (interview), The Encyclopedia of Punk author Brian Cogan (interview), Chris Matulich and Jay Northington of Nothington (interview), and guitarist / vocalist Trevor Reilly of A Wilhelm Scream (interview).

As always we brought you new streaming music from some great up and coming bands, including the new 7" from Washington, DC-based Lion of Judah, the new full length from Teenage Bottlerocket, Slackers frontman Vic Ruggiero's new solo project, a 7" from Newark, NJ-based Troublemaker, and a preview of a new song from AFI.

So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from Brand New, Islands, Owen, Ruiner, the Almighty Defenders, and Times New Viking with tours kicking off from Bad Religion and NOFX (Australia), The Queers with The Leftovers (US), The Academy Is, Mayday Parade and Set Your Goals (US), Virgins and Lords (US), A Wilhelm Scream (Europe), The Spits (US), A Day To Remember with Parkway Drive and others (US).

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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...

This week brought major news that Public Image Ltd is reforming in December. John Lydon's influential post-Sex Pistols act hasn't played in 17 years, but the group wil return for a series of shows to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Metal Box. The presence of Kurt Cobain as a playable character in the new Guitar Hero 5 video game has enranged the members of the Nirvana camp. Cobain's widow Courtney Love threatened to sue the shit out of Activision, while the developer claims that Love signed agreements allowing for Cobain's image to be used. Former Nirvana members Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl were also dismayed, with Grohl urging Activision to "re-lock" Kurt's character so that it can't be used for anything but Nirvana songs in the game. In less contentious Nirvana news, the band's 1992 Reading Set will arrive as a CD / DVD set in November. Influential post-hardcore band Small Brown Bike has announced plans to reform and play shows in the near future. At a recent product announcement Apple unveiled the iTunes LP. The digital download will accompany music with lyrics, liner notes, video, photos and other content. Another forward thinking digital initiative has arrived from Nick Cave, who has released an enhanced ebook for the iPhone. It features the text of his second novel The Death of Bunny Munro with an audiobook read by Cave and featuring original music.

Rise Against has announced plans to work on new album for release in 2010. The Lawrence Arms are gearing up for their upcoming anniversary show by asking fans to choose the set list. Brendan Kelly was also interviewed by NME with a report on his favorite songs. Suburban Home records is giving away free albums for their 14th Anniversary. The kids from the Harry Potter movies were spotted checking out popular UK punk act Gallows at recent shows. BYO Records has unveiled Let Them Know covers by Dropkick Murphys, American Steel, and In The Red among others. Keep an eye open for upcoming tour dates from Shook Ones and Title Fight (co-headlining) as well as an upcoming trek from the Star Fucking Hipsters, Citizen Fish and Molotov Compromise. The Fest 8 has confirmed more bands, including Broadway Calls, The Swellers, and Panthro UK United 13. New video footage arrived this week of Frank Turner performing "Poetry of the Deed" live on CNN and Brian Fallon of the Gaslight Anthem acoustically performing "Casanova, Baby!"

This week we said goodbye to Jake Brockman of Echo & the Bunnymen (1956-2009). This week we spoke with lead singer/guitarist John Gourley and bassist Zachary Carothers of Portugal The Man (interview), Nick and Nate from Minneapolis’ Banner Pilot (interview), drummer and songwriter Brad Lokkesmoe of Dear Landlord (interview), Jon Ginoli of Pansy Division (interview), and Chase Brenneman of Living With Lions (interview).

Our Dispatches series of band blogs featured another edition of Mike Hale's For Those Still Standing (Attica! Attica! (Episode 1). Our Video of the Week featured Against Me! live at the Fest 4. As always we brought you new streaming music from some great up and coming bands, including the new album Phoenix from Los Angeles' Orange, and the latest from Rochester, NY's Such Gold.

So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from Every Time I Die, Mock Orange, Moneen, Orange, Teenage Bottlerocket, The Bomb and Thrice with tours kicking off from Youth Brigade with Off With Their Heads (US), Poison The Well with Billy Talent (US), Streetlight Manifesto with Outernational and Broadway Calls (US / Canada), North Lincoln (Canada), Dillinger Four with Riverboat Gamblers and The Arrivals (US), Social Distortion with TAT and the Strangers (US), Thursday with the Fall Of Troy and Young Widows (US), and Face to Face with Pegboy and Polar Bear Club (US).

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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...

In the wake of Jim Lindberg's departure comes word that Ignite vocalist Zoli Teglas will temporarily front Pennywise. He'll appear with the band at the two day Cypress Hill's Smokeout Fest. We've also had word that Sublime intends to reunite for that event. Our best guess is they've got Black Lantern Bradley Nowell fronting them (too soon?). forgetters, the new band that features Jawbreaker / Jets to Brazil frontman Blake Schwarzenbach and original Against Me! drummer Kevin Mahon, is set to play a show this September in NYC. Speaking of Against Me! this week saw frontman Tom Gabel post a few videos of the band in the studio.

The Riot Before has signed to Paper and Plastick. The group plans to hit the studio this winter to record a new full length. Punk veterans Bad Religion are repressing some early albums on vinyl. Lucero posted the new song "Smoke" from their upcoming album 1372 Overton Park, due in October. The 4th Annual Red Oktoberfest in Chicago will feature bands like the Lawrence Arms, Off With Their Heads, the Copyrights, La Plebe, Smalltown, the Menzingers, Mike Park and the Reganomics (Ryan's Hope). The Misfits have a huge tour lined up with dates in Mexico, the US, and Canada. Guttermouth is headed to the great white north. The Bronx' new sideproject Mariachi El Bronx will support the Killers on tour. Finally Blink-182 has postponed shows following the death of band friend DJ AM. This week we spoke with vocalist Thomas Barnett of Strike Anywhere (interview), the voice of geek America Rev. Norb of Boris the Sprinkler (interview), guitarist Chris Chasse of Nations Afire (interview), and drummer Lee Barrett of Gallows (interview).

Paint it Black, Polar Bear Club and Set Your Goals topped the list of Your Favorite Records from August. Our Food Not Songs series of punk rock recipes featured Fake Problems making "It's Great To Be Shepherds Pie." As always we brought you new streaming music from some great up and coming bands, including the Sidekicks' new full length for Red Scare Records, the new EP from Rochester, NY's Sakes Alive!!, the new full length from Chicago's The Bomb, and the final full length from Brooklyn's Nakatomi Plaza.

So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from Polar Bear Club, Saosin, Ruiner, Vivian Girls, and Cuff The Duke with tours kicking off from Every Time I Die with Bring Me the Horizon, Oh, Sleeper, Architects (North America), Gaslight Anthem with Murder By Death, the Loved Ones, Frank Turner, the Measure SA (North America), Naked Raygun with Paint It Black and Shot Baker (US), Angry Samoans with Dirty Tactics (US), And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead with Secret Machines and Future of the Left (US), and These Arms Are Snakes with dd/mm/yy (North America).

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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...

Folk-punker Frank Turner caught our attention with some comments on illegal music downloading. Among his thoughts was the opinion "the idea that by stealing music from the internet you're somehow crusading for justice against the big bad record labels is absolute fucking bullshit... Britney Spears and David Geffen aren't going to downsize their condo's because you didn't pay for a Fugazi album." Fall Out Boy vocalist Patrick Stump was arrested in Los Angeles last Tuesday being picked up for a two-year-old warrant for driving without a license. He was released on Wednesday after posting $15,000 bail. The Lawrence Arms are planning a new EP for October 27th titled Buttsweat and Tears. They'll support the release with a 10th Anniversary show in their hometown of Chicago and a week of west coast dates in November. Strung Out unveiled the new track "Black Crosses" this week from their upcoming 20th anniversary full length Agents of the Underground.

AFI has announced a bonus edition of Crash Love that will feature six bonus tracks. Sum 41 posted an update on their new record. The pop punk act is now writing and recording demos. Fellow canucks Tegan and Sara have detailed their new record Sainthood. Alkaline Trio frontman Matt Skiba is hitting the studio to record a solo album this month. Red Scare has announced that it will be reissuing the back catalogue from 90s-era pop-punk outfit Sicko. Defunct pop punk act Fenix Tx is no longer defunct and has a new album set for 2010. Hellcat Records has signed Canadian psychobilly act the Creepshow. This week saw the new Fake Problems video for "Diamond Rings" and a DVD trailer for the Get Up Kids' Something To Write Home About. The Bouncing Souls announced tour dates with Bayside and Broadway Calls. The full lineup of Fun Fun Fun Fest was unveiled and it includes bands like Danzig, Mission of Burma, Gorilla Biscuits, Youth Brigade and Fucked Up.

This week we said goodbye to Adam Goldstein, popularly known as DJ AM (1973-2009). This week we spoke with Spike Slawson of Re-Volts (not to mention Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Swingin’ Utters and Filthy Thieving Bastards) (interview), Sam Johnson of Virgins and the now defunct New Mexican Disaster Squad (interview). vocalist Devin Peralta of Cobra Skulls (interview), and Dan Whitesides of The Used (interview).

As always we brought you new streaming music from some great up and coming bands, including the Fat Wreck debut from Minneapolis, MN's Banner Pilot, and an audio book chapter from Frank Portman of The Mr. T Experience's new book Andromeda Klein.

So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from Banner Pilot, Chuck Ragan, Reverend Horton Heat, The Bronx, and The Used with tours kicking off from Nakatomi Plaza (farewell tour), Have Heart with Crime in Stereo, Cruel Hand, End of a Year, Foundation (US), Two Man Advantage (US), Japandroids (US / Canada), and Devon Williams (US).

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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...

Fans were shocked this month as after 20 years, nine albums and thousands of shows, vocalist Jim Lindberg left Pennywise. The band will however continue on, with the remaining three members in search of a new singer. Former Jawbreaker and Jets to Brazil frontman Blake Schwarzenbach has put a fork in his new band Thorns of Life. The short lived and much buzzed about act leaves behind no studio work, but they do have a successor. Schwarzenbach's new band is forgetters, a band which apparently includes former Against Me! drummer Kevin Mahon. AFI has unveiled the track listing and cover art for Crash Love. The album's due on September 29th and is the band's first since 2006's Decemberunderground. Nirvana was in the news a few times this week. The band's debut full length Bleach is headed for a deluxe reissue on Sub Pop. A plaque in honor of late frontman Kurt Cobain also stirred controversy in his hometown of Aberdeen, Washington. Town officials aren't happy with the language in the engraved "drugs are bad for you, they will fuck you up" quote.

The Lawrence Arms] have titled their upcoming 7-inch Buttsweat and Tears. Converge detailed their upcoming full length Axe to Fall, due on October 20th. Banner Pilot has posted another song from their Fat Wreck debut Collapser, titled "Skeleton Key." Broadway Calls streamed their new full length "Midnight Hour." Weezer has unveiled their first single from their new album, dubbed "(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To." Scranton, PA's Captain, We're Sinking! posted a free download of their new demo online. This week also brought new music from Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine. The lineup for Riot Fest West includes bands like Screeching Weasel, Dead Milkmen, Adolescents, and Naked Raygun. Fun Fun Fun Fest adds Fucked Up, and D.R.I. among others. Have Heart also detailed their final show with Bane, and Shipwreck a.d..

This week we said goodbye to Lit drummer Allen Shellenberger (1970-2009). This week we spoke with Jake Kolatis of The Casualties (interview), Aaron Scott of Attica! Attica! (interview), Frank Turner (interview part 2), and Eric Solomon of O Pioneers!!! (interview).

Our Food Not Songs series of punk rock recipies featured John Peck of American Steel's Squash Blossoms Rangoon. This week's Editors' Picks recommended music from Sainthood Reps and The Republic of Wolves. As always we brought you new streaming music from some great up and coming bands, including the new full length from Seattle's The Spits, the new record from New York street punks The Casualties, San Francisco, CA's Heartsounds, and Punknews community-spawned monstrosity the Sandwiches.

So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from Intro5pect, Municipal Waste, Shonen Knife, Soul Control, The Casualties, and The Methadones with tours kicking off from the Mars Volta (US), Earth Crisis with many others (Europe) Motorhead (A Href="http://www.punknews.org/article/34135">US / Canada), Fake Problems (Europe), Four Year Strong with Crime in Stereo, Fireworks and A Loss for Words (US), and The Static Age (Europe).

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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...

This week brought news that the major labels are preparing a new digital album format. Tentatively titled CMX the proposed format would include songs, lyrics, videos, liner notes, artwork and other bonus content. The news comes on the heels of rumours that Apple is working on an alternative called Cocktail. CNN put the spotlight on Muslim punk bands this week, focusing on Boston's The Kominas along with the novel Taqwacore. Strung Out are celebrating their 20th anniversary with a new album. The record is titled Agents of the Underground and is due out September 29th. The band swill support with a tour in October.

Lucero detailed their new full length titled 1372 Overton Park. The new record is due on October 6th. Bridge Nine has announced plans to reissue material from Agnostic Front. Andrew W.K. has announced plans to tour with the Calder Quartet, a classical string quartet. The Gaslight Anthem has announced more dates on their tour with Murder By Death. New labelmates Paramore and the Swellers will soon hit the road with the Paper Route. Brand New posted their new song "At the Bottom," taken from their upcoming full length Daisy. The Star Fucking Hipsters also posted a new song, "3000 Miles Away" from their upcoming Alternative Tentacles full length. Punknews community regular TahoeJeff graced us with ukulele versions of classic punk songs. On the video front we saw Big D and The Kids Table's "Fluent in Stroll" along with Paramore's "Ignorance."

This week we said goodbye legendary guitarist and inventor Les Paul (1915-2009). This week we spoke with Jamie Morrison of the Arteries (interview), and Brett Adams of The Riot Before (interview). Our Dispatches series of band blogs featured Episode 3 of our Sakes Alive!! video updates. This week's Editors' Picks recommended music from Boost.

So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from Broadway Calls, Jay Reatard, Mission of Burma, Paint It Black, Pissed Jeans, This Is Hell and Rehasher with tours kicking off from Modest Mouse (US / Canada), Poison The Well with Vanna and This Time Next Year (US), the Get Up Kids (Germany), None More Black (US), Bleeding Through (US), A Wilhelm Scream (Europe), and Nine Inch Nails (Final Tour).

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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...

This week the Alkaline Trio announced that they'd reunite with longtime producer Matt Allison to record their upcomin self-released album. Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters has launched a new band dubbed Them Crooked Vultures. The act also features Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age and John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin. The Swellers managed to accidently share a split 7" with Metallica. A mix up at the pressing plant resulted in a pairing of a new Swellers song with Metallica's live cover of Black Sabbath's "Iron Man." Youth Brigade expanded their upcoming tour plans and further detailed the hotly anticipated "Let Them Know" boxed set. The set will feature the DVD documentary on the band and BYO Records, a coffee table book, and an LP featuring covers of BYO tracks by NOFX, the Dropkick Murphys, Pennywise, the Briefs and many others.

Brian Fallon of the Gaslight Anthem dismissed rumours of an upcoming solo record, stating that the band will instead get to work on their next LP. Brand New detailed their upcoming full length Daisy and unveiled the cover art and track listing. The Sidekicks revealed details on their upcoming Red Scare full length Weight of Air, due this September. Jon Snodgrass also set expectations on the next Drag The River album, stating that nothing would be available until 2010 or 2011. Pearl Jam announced that Bad Religion, and Ted Leo and The Pharmacists would server as their August tour support. The Lawrence Arms' Neil Hennessy joined the Copyrights for the ongoing Red Scare Tour. ALL will get back together for a one-off show this October in Portland, Oregon. This week Teenage Bottlerocket previewed "Skate or Die," Thrice posted a stream of their new full length Beggars and Eulogy Records launched a free sampler. On the visual side of things, Bomb The Music Industry! unveiled their video for "Wednesday Night Drinkball" while Broadway Calls posted "Be All You Can't Be."

This week we said goodbye to singer-songwriter and frontman of Mink DeVille, Willy DeVille (1950-2009). Dear Landlord and Shook Ones topped the list of Your Favorite Records from July. This week we spoke with Andy “Falco” Falkous of Future of the Left (interview), Dave McWane of Big D and the Kids Table (interview), Scott Freeman of Shook Ones (interview), and Pat Schramm of Bridge and Tunnel (interview). This week we also previewed a receipe from Ben Conoley's upcoming punk rock cookbook Food Not Songs In this edition Brett Adams, vocalist/guitarist for The Riot Before, instructs you in preparing his Carnitas Burritos with Roasted Pablano and Tomatillo Salsa.

As always we brought you new streaming music from some great up and coming bands, including the new 7 inch from Long Island's This Is Hell, and the new split between Adam's Dagger and Scars and Stripes.

So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from Balance and Composure, Cobra Starship, Protest The Hero, and Thrice with tours kicking off from Guttermouth (US), the Get Up Kids (US / UK), Git Some (US), and My Heart to Joy (US).

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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...

This week The Fest announced more bands playing this year's weekend in Gainesville. The new additions include a Gunmoll reunion show and apperances from Carpenter, This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb, Chris Wollard and the Ship Thieves, Vicious Cycle, American Steel and Drag The River. Dead to Me posted the song "Modern Muse" from their upcoming full length African Elephants. The band also announced that guitarist / co-vocalist Jack Dalrymple did not participate it the recording, nor will he join the band on upcoming tours. Bassist / vocalist Chicken insists that Dalrymple is still in the band though, he's just taking a fatherhood sabbatical. With their recent reunion the Get Up Kids are getting all nostalgic on us. In a recent interview Jim Suptic discussed his love for Fugazi and outright apologized if the Get Up Kids' influence help create today's glam rock-like emo / punk scene.

Suburban Home announced the next three Under The Influence pairings. Look for splits between O Pioneers!!! and New Bruises, Joey Cape paired with Mike Hale, and Kevin Seconds with Kepi Ghoulie. Jello Biafra has returned with a new band dubbed Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine. The band features Billy Gould of Faith No More, Kimo Ball of Freak Accident, Ralph Spight of Victims Family, and Jon Weiss. The record The Audacity of Hype will arrive in October on Alternative Tentacles. Banner Pilot has posted the track "Greenwood" from their upcoming Fat Wreck Chords debut Collapser. Panic at the Disco has unveiled the song "New Perspective" from soundtrack to the upcoming film Jennifer's Body Label Paper + Plastick also offered up a free digital sampler this week. Chuck Ragan has announced the dates for the 2009 Revival Tour with Jim Ward (At The Drive-In, Sleepercar, Sparta), Tim Barry (Avail) and Dave Hause (The Loved Ones). Brand New has tour dates coming up with Manchester Orchestra, Thrice, and Glassjaw. AFI has shows scheduled in support of their upcoming Crash Love. Polar Bear Club will play dates in Europe followed by CD release shows. Have Heart's world-spanning final tour continues with appearances from Crime in Stereo, Cruel Hand, End of a Year and Foundation. The Letters Organize have announced a reunion show this August in Atlanta, GA. Fake Problems tour plans continue to fluxuate with the cancellation of four more shows. Finally this week saw a contestant on Indonesia Idol perform NOFX's "The Brews." This week we spoke with solo artist Frank Turner (interview), drummer Benny Horrowitz of the Gaslight Anthem (interview), Paint It Black frontman Dan Yemin (interview) and vocalist Efrem Schulz of Death By Stereo (interview). As always we brought you new streaming music from some great up and coming bands, including the new 12 inch EP from Doylestown, PA's Balance and Composure, and the new 7-song EP from Boston's Ringers.

So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from Darker My Love, Hawthorne Heights, Norma Jean, the Real McKenzies and Zebrahead with tours kicking off from the Breeders with Times New Viking and Whispertown 2000 (US), Franz Nicolay (US), Portugal. The Man (US / Canada), the Melvins with Down (US), Harvey Danger (farewell tour), and High On Fire with Early Man (California).

Also keep an eye out for Punknews' Ben Conoley at PokerNews.com where he's writing a weekly Poker Playlist.

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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...

What a week! The folks who run The Fest in Gainesville announced their initial lineup, which features a vast number of bands including 7Seconds, Dillinger Four, Less Than Jake and Strike Anywhere. Thrice addressed the leak of their upcoming record Beggars, expressing disappointment but vowing to move forward. Later this week they did just that by pushing up the digital release to August 11th. Former Against Me! drummer Warren Oakes discussed his departure from the band and his new restaurant, stating "It felt like that it was time for a new chapter, so I just threw myself into this completely." It was revealed this week that Mest were the previously unidentified band linked to the extortion charge against Elgin James of Righteous Jams. According to the original complaint, Mest was attacked in Boston and was told they could stop further attacks by making a $5,000 "donation" to FSU. The Beastie Boys delayed their new album and cancel their tour after Adam "MCA" Yauch was diagnosed with a cancerous tumor in his left parotid gland. Ben Weasel did a round of interviews this week, addressing the absence of Jughead at recent Screeching Weasel reunion shows and discussing his next solo record.

Teenage Bottlerocket detailed their new album, unveiling the track listing and cover art. Their labelmates None More Black are writing for a Fat Wreck release next year. Screeching Weasel, the Sword, and Cobra Starship are set to appear on the upcoming Jennifer's Body soundtrack. Victory has signed Before There Was Rosalyn, who claim to be "a ministry first, and a band second." Speaking of religious acts, The Sandwiches unveiled details on their "Hitting Refresh to Drop Witty Comments" EP. Having wrapped up their tour with the Offspring, Sum 41 are now back in the studio to finish their album. This week the The Bronx unveiled the song "Quinceniera" from their counterparts Mariachi el Bronx. Chuck Ragan, Jim Ward, Tim Barry and Dave Hause will perform on the 2009 Revival Tour. Nothington will tour the US in support of their upcoming record. The Measure SA will play shows leading up to Fest. Social Distortion will play shows with TAT and the Strangers. Guttermouth has US shows scheduled while A Wilhelm Scream will play Europe, the US and Canada in the coming months. It looks like Blink-182's entire kickoff performance has been bootlegged. On a related note, Tom DeLonge will now personally spay or neuter your pets for you. I've seen him do it. It's gross. This week we spoke with vocalist P-Boy of Massachusetts-based hardcore band and recent addition to the Deathwish Inc roster, New Lows (interview). As always we brought you new streaming music from some great up and coming bands, including Frank Tuner's new album Love, Ire and Song.

So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from Billy Talent, Cave In, Polar Bear Club, Rx Bandits and the Swellers with tours kicking off from the Flatliners (Europe), Hatebreed with Chimaira and others (US), H2O (Europe), Static Thought with Society's Parasites (US), Agnostic Front (Europe), Billy Bragg (US), Mad Caddies (Europe), and Rx Bandits with Dredg (US).

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