It's Sunday January 21st, 2007. This weekend marks the 9th annual Punk Rock Bowling tournament, so while Adam, Brian, Justin, and Chris are in Vegas presumably smashing pins (or smashing empty cans of PBR on their foreheads) and representing the .Org, I, Meg, have accepted the challenge of wrapping up the week in "punk, ska, hardcore, emo, metal and indie" news.
The people must have something good to read on a Sunday
In an unsurprising move, the week's most talked about story involved the killing of a patron at a hardcore show in Asbury Park earlier this week. "America's Finest News Source" the Onion posted their picks for the worst band names of 2006 and a lot of you chimed in with the names they forgot. The dates for this year's Warped Tour were posted and headliner Bad Religion confirmed July 10th as the release date for their upcoming full-length. Both Thrice and Say Anything discussed their future releases. While Thrice is almost halfway through the writing and recording of their ambitious quadruple release, Say Anything are in the rehearsal and pre-production stages of In Defense of the Genre. The Clash fans rejoiced at the announcement of a major Joe Strummer biography being in the works. Despite only being four dates, Canadian Propagandhi fans were excited about the few opportunities to see the band on their "turf." Finally, Rage Against The Machine's Tom Morello mentioned the possibility of a reunion in a recent interview.
Our Video Of The Week featured an audio interview with Tomas Kalnoky of Streetlight Manifesto. We also brought you a new album stream of Tera Melos' new full length Drugs To the Dear Youth. Justin has continued his new years resolution by keeping up with the MP3 of the Week feature and spotlighting Smoke Or Fire. Finally, Brian caught up with Hot Rod Circuit in an interview you can check out here.
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Radio Free Punknews
Check the Punknews Music page to stream all sorts of anticipated new music including Cry Tuff Council, a new dub outfit featuring former Bosstones axeman Nate Albert, the new Fake Problems collection Spokes and Spurs / Bulls > Matador, Down To Nothing's All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone, the new album from Deltona, FL's No Harm Done, Planes Mistaken For Stars' Mercy, Avail frontman Tim Barry's solo debut Rivanna Junction, and Anthem Red's Dancing on the Dishwasher. PNR's also giving you a gift this year with full album streams of Somerset and Ryanâs Hope's latest.
Suntans are for Winners 'The Ultimate Band Rig' from MxPx MxPx is testing the limits of discography categorization this year with both a compilation and a reissue of an eight-year-old compilation. Fanscape wants to help celebrate the latter's release by giving one extremely lucky fan a mind-blowing band rig that includes ::deep breath:: an Ernie Ball guitar, an Ernie Ball bass, a Truth Drums snare drum, Samson Wireless Technology full personal setup, a…oh forget it, you can check out the entire prize lineup by clicking to this handy contest entry form.
Staff Blogs
When not writing about music on the internet, many members of the Punknews staff find time to write about music on the internet. You can check out the depraved musings of Justin August at Kinder Words and Adam White at 2:59. Chris Moran's all over the place with content rocking both MySpace and Flickr.
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