Navel Gazing June 25, 2017

Hello everyone and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back in the week in Punknews. I'm Ricky Frankel and I'll be your guide through some of the juiciest, most popular and otherwise noteworthy stories from the last seven days. Remember, every Punknews story and review is built from tips from our wonderful, good-looking readers, so get to submitting a story, feel free to submit a review or if you are a photographer continue reading below. Here's what got the strange, slow and old community talking this week: Photo Credit: PJ Russo

The Dwarves to release 'Take Back the Night' LP

The Dwarves have announced that they will be releasing a new album in February 2018. The album will be called The Dwarves Take Back the Night and it will be out via Burger Records and Greedy Records. As with the previous few records, the band described the album as a "Dwarves Posse Record" meaning that members from across the band's 34 year history make appearances on the record.

Before that, the band will release the Julio EP in Fall 2017. According to the band, the release was orignally scheduled as a Fat Wreck Chords release, but was canceled for "objectionable content." In a release, Dwarves frontman Blag Dahlia stated "“I’m gonna have to give Fat Mike some shit next time we do coke together!” So, the EP will be out via Riot Style records. The band last released Radio Free Dwarves in 2015.

Natterers: 'Toxic Care'

Natterers have made their new EP Toxic Care available to stream in its entirety over on their Bandcamp page. It was officially released today via Boss Tuneage Records and Serial Bowl Records. The band self-released Demo ’16 [Cassette] in 2016. You can listen to the EP below.

Peter Tosh's son in coma following prison beating

Jawara McIntosh, the son of reggae legend Peter Tosh, was recently attacked in a Bergen County, New Jersey jail. Jawara, who is also a reggae singer going by the name Tosh1, was serving a six month sentence for possessing 65 pounds of marijuana. In February, Jawara was attacked in jail while serving his sentence and was beaten into a coma. He has been in a coma since then. The reason that this issue is just now coming to light is because Jawara's family has stated that they have asked the county for the cause of the beating, but have not received any answers, They announced plans to sue the county and to request that the justice department invesitage the attack.