It's Sunday February 4th, 2007. Remember NFL Superpro? It was a thankfully short-lived Marvel comic from the early 90s about some bozo who was somehow coated in "experimental chemicals" and the fumes of burning "ultra-rare" football souvenirs and thus became invincible. He then steals a state of the art indestructible football uniform and proceeds to fight football-related crime. Interestingly enough, that's almost exactly how Chris started working for Punknews.
The people must have something good to read on a Sunday
Oh Pete, we know it sucks to have your record leak online, but you simply do not insult the average working Joe as a response. They ARE the ones who make up your audience remember. If you minimum wage criminals haven't stolen it already, you can stream Fall Out Boy's Infinity on High now. I guess you crooks wern't content in preying on Love Equals Death eh? Now Tom Morello certainly wouldn't attack the working class, but he displayed how own brand of hubris in claiming that the impending Rage Against The Machine reunion would be a "knockout blow" to the Bush administration. One of those average folks seems to be taking a stand of their own this week, as a teen has taken on the recording industry alledging collusion and extortion.
Everyone broke up this week, as we said goodbye to Lookout/Matador punk act Pretty Girls Make Graves, Drive Thru heartthrobs Hidden In Plain View, Mark Lind's band the Ducky Boys and Lobster act Park. We also had some confirmations on long rumored splits, including Brody Dalle's Distillers (although she'll be back in Spinnerette) and Jason Shevchuk's None More Black (although he'll be back in OnGuard). The bands remaining together pretty much all signed up for the Warped Tour, including Alkaline Trio, Norma Jean, and Hot Rod Circuit. I doubt you'll see them on Warped, but the Locust returned this week with new music. Ditto that Lifetime band. They may not be as shocking as the Locust, but the kids in Mindless Self Indulgence managed to offend some Christian rock affectionatos this week. Meanwhile here at the Org, Anti-Flag had everyone arguing about PETA, which if you missed it was sort of like the last 200 times that's happened.
Looking for interesting punk content online? This week we saw the ever elusive list of "top punk albums" via IGN, some footage 80s hardcore kids on Phil Donahue via YouTube, and a look at race in underground music via the New York Times.
For your listening pleasure we brought you a stream of the new Million Dollar Marxists LP Zero Culture. Our Video Of The Week featured Me First and the Gimme Gimmes live in Las Vegas, while our MP3 Of The Week introduced you to the down and dirty sound of the Black Diamond Heavies.
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Radio Free Punknews
Check the Punknews Music page to stream all sorts of anticipated new music including The Queers' 25th anniversary album Munki Brain, Only Crime's sophomore record Virulence and Tera Melos' new full length Drugs To the Dear Youth.
Suntans are for Winners Samsung phone, new discs from AFI, Brand New, more
Once again, Fanscape is stepping in to offer serious goods in exchange for a little information on your part and some additional fine print. One lucky grand prize winner will stretch their mailbox's capacity with a Samsung SGH-t809 phone, $100 in cash, a Samsung accessory pack, portable multimedia speakers, and three albums from either AFI, Brand New, Motion City Soundtrack, All-American Rejects or the Used. A first prize winner will get the phone, accessory pack and compact discs.
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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