It's Sunday February 5th, 2006. You know I'm really not the best person to say anything the least bit informed or clever about football. I'm not even going to try. Seriously.
Stories you were talking about this week
Anti-Flag made some waves this week with the first preview of a song from their major label debut For Blood and Empire. Bad Religion's Greg Graffin is in the studio recording a solo project backed by the the Weakerthans, featuring a guest appearance by Jolie Holland, and produced by Brett Gurewitz -- a combination of players that raised a collective "holy crap" from the `Org staff when we learned. I guess you can go home again, as Vagrant signed Saves The Day, again. None More Black finished their new record while Green Day just got started thinking about theirs. Other big stories this week spanned such topics as the With Honor vocalist change, the surprise appearance of a Silverstein song on American Idol, the break up of Champion, and details on the new Less than Jake EP.
This was a tragic week as well, and our condolences go out to the families, friends and fans of both Jason Sears of RKL and Thomas "Pig Champion" Roberts of Poison Idea.
Current contests See the Taste of Chaos at Long Beach Arena
Punknews.org and the Taste of Chaos Tour will give one lucky winner a chance to see the tour stop in Los Angeles, California on March 30th, 2006. Besides putting you on a plane, the package will include a Nintendo DS, accommodations when you arrive, backstage passes, a year's supply of Rockstar energy drink, and a guitar signed by Thrice, The Deftones, Atreyu, Story of The Year and American Eyes.
Take Action Tour 2006
To celebrate the upcoming 2006 Take Action! Tour we're giving three winners a selection of albums by bands featured on the tour. The prize package will include recent albums from headliners Matchbook Romance and Silverstein as well as material from the Early November, Chiodos, Amber Pacific, Paramore, Man Alive, I Am Ghost, Hit The Lights, We Are The Fury and Roses Are Red.
GG Allin - Terror In America Music Video Distributors will release the DVD GG Allin - Terror In America: Live 1993 on February 21st. The label's giving away packs of five depraved GG DVDs to three depraved `Org readers.
Sponsored tours Take Action Tour Matchbook Romance, Silverstein, Chiodos, Amber Pacific, Paramore, The Early November, I Am Ghost and Hit The Lights are among the bands playing this year's Take Action Tour. The Sub City organized event provides support and resources for young people to turn to when in need through the National Hopeline Network and 1-800-SUICIDE(784-2433).
Plugs for friends
Two great music websites that have contributed features and reviews to the Punknews community were relaunched recently. Punk International, the source of our soon-to-be restarted International Spotlight features, lives on as Wreck The Place Fantastic. A source for many great Canadian punk reviews, Canada Noise, is also sporting a beautiful new design with lots of great content. Frequent Punknews contributor James Hepplewhite recently did a great interview with Bane, running on the always informative Pastepunk.