It's Sunday November 5th, 2006. Fest, Fest, Fest, Fest. You tired of hearing that yet? Now that the Fest is over I'm not really sure what we're going to do. It's not often we see such a convergence of the so-called "Orgcore" to that degree -- It's a bit like looking into the sun. There really isn't much to talk about now that it's done. I'm at a bit of a loss…
The people must have something good to read on a Sunday
Bands seem to swap members all the time these days, but there aren't many acts around with line-ups as stable and well known as Rancid's. Brett Reed may have been the least outgoing of the four, but his departure's still a shock. To say nothing of his unlikely successor: Brandon Steineckert of the Used. Updates are trickling in the new Against Me! album, with a video update talking about "selling out." Tom Delonge's been a lightning rod of controversy since the demise of Blink-182, and the comments made by the Angels and Airwaves frontman on Larry King are no exception. The legendary Bad Brains are sticking together, and following up their CBGBs send off by completing their long in-the-works new album. Jason Shevchuk, frontman of None More Black and the much adored Kid Dynamite now has a new band to his name, and the solo project OnGuard was announced this week. The war of words between Atreyu and From First To Last continued this week, with the former commenting twice on the latter's departure from their tour. NOFX are gearing up for 2007, announcing a series of Californian dates supported by bands like Strike Anywhere, Love Equals Death, and Dead to Me. Finally we end the week by revisiting Victory's legal battle with Hawthorne Heights as major label EMI/Virgin are drawn into the fray.
This week our Video Of The Week featured footage Richmond's VCR performing at the Fest V. In fact we had a number of Fest released media for you this week, including clips of Lifetime and Dillinger Four along with audio from No Trigger and a ton of photos. Check out our Fest Feature for all the fun.
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Suntans are for Winners Street Dogs Broken Guitar Giveaway
Recently the Street Dogs delivered their new album Fading American Dream to you, the unwashed masses. In his review, News Editor Chris Moran described it as being "pure punk-influenced rock music" that involves "no gimmicks, no pseudo-image, [and] no bullshit." To celebrate, the Dogs and the Org (with a bit of help from DRT) have teamed up to give you folks the chance to win a non-functioning guitar! Talk about generous. In fact, this is the very guitar immortalized on Fading American Dream in the track "Tobe's Got a Drinking Problem" (album stream). How fancy is that?
80GB iPod, Logitech accessories, albums from Sparta, Sugarcult, more Fanscape was all like "Yo Punknews, want to give some stuff out?" And I was like "Like what yo?" And they were all "An 80 gig iPod and the new albums from Sparta, Sugarcult, Plain White T's, the Summer Obsession and others." So I was like, "Aight." Sorry about that. In truth, one grand prize winner will indeed win all of the above, as well as an AudioStation and Z-10 interactive speakers from Logitech.
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