.ng–section1 { font–size: small; border–bottom: 1px solid #C5C5C5; width: 70%; font–weight: bold; padding: 1em 0 0em 2em; } .ng–section2 { font–size: xx–small; padding: 0 0 2em 3em; } Hello everybody and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back at the week in Punknews. I'm Adam White and I'll be your guide through some of the most popular, notable, and otherwise attention getting stories of the past seven days. Each and every Punknews story is built from tips contributed by you fine folks, and here's what got the community talking… The People Must Have Something Good To Read On A Sunday This week's most popular stories We start this week in Berkeley. Pinhead Gunpowder, which of course features members of some band called Green Day, donated a new sound system to the famous scene hub at 924 Gilman. Fello denizen Jesse Michaels of Operation Ivy and Common Rider is working on a new batch of songs that are reportedly "raw, traditional punk rock." Plenty of other acts announced updates this week. NOFX's world tour documentary is now slated to air on Fuse. Richmond's Ann Beretta have announced upcoming reunion shows with additional dates and festival appearances to come. Bad Religion's Brooks Wackerman is playing in a new project with what amounts to the refugees of nu–metal, the results of which are anyone's guess. Epitaph announced the signing of Minneapolis power–pop act Sing It Loud. Pop–punk act the Starting Line recently announced a hiatus.
On the new release front we had details on New Found Glory's greatest hits compilation. The Dropkick Murphys will issue a limited edition version of The Meanest of Times, expanding on their latest full length. The Alkaline Trio's Matt Skiba posted a new studio update detailing the progress on their new record. From First To Last detailed their major label debut as well. 100 Demons, 108, Blacklisted and Madball will all appear at This Is Hardcore 2008. The Asian Man Records tour keeps adding dates. It'll feature the Queers, Lemuria, Bomb The Music Industry!, Andrew Jackson Jihad and Kepi Ghoulie. There were plenty of video releases this week as well. You could check out Millencolin's "Detox," the Presidents of the United States of America's "Mixed Up SOB", Against Me!'s acoustic "Amputations" and "Nuclear Cowboys in an Age of Drift," and Avenged Sevenfold's "Afterlife".
This week we said goodbye to Dungeons and Dragons co–creator Gary Gygax (1938–2008). I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives Our Video of the Week featured Smoke Or Fire performing with Avail's bassist Gwomper guesting. Vinyl File featured ––> Editors' Picks this week featured ––> This week also brought new Streaming Music from the Gaslight Anthem, featuring a song from their new EP Señor and the Queen.
Check the Punknews Music page to stream all sorts of anticipated new music including Capillary Action's new LP, the new EP from Dirty Tactics/a>, the new EP from Worcester, MA's Smartbomb (featuring members of No Trigger and Shock Nagasaki), the new full length from melodic pop punk act The Frantic, Warning Device, the second full length from Teenage Bottlerocket, three upcoming 7" releases from Toronto power-pop act Marvelous Darlings, featuring Ben Cook of Fucked Up and No Warning, the reissue of Broadway Calls' self titled debut, alt-country act Drag The River's final album You Can't Live That Way, and new material from former ALL vocalist Scott Reynolds (and the Steaming Beast),
Win Guitar Hero III from Sound and Fury
Toronto-based punk band Sound and Fury just lined up a supporting gig with Sum 41 on their upcoming tour and to celebrate, they want to give away a specially customized version of Guitar Hero III. The first batch of winners will be announced on March 14th. Win a bunch of stuff from Punk Rock Confidential Magazine
Punk rock's leading non-musical periodical Punk Rock Confidential has officially launched a new line of t-shirts and to commemorate this incredible transition from paper to uhm, cloth, has put up a bunch of great stuff including subscriptions to the magazine, the official t-shirts AND a smelly, used t-shirt from Fat Mike's laundry hamper. The magazine enlisted the design prowess of Heather Hannoura and Shawn Peterson of Dogpile for the shirts and you can find them at the link.
Converge Converge recently announced their first tour in some time in continued support of their latest album, No Heroes. The band will be supported on the run by The Red Chord who are supporting Prey for Eyes and Genghis Tron who is supporting their Relapse debut, Board Up the House. Baroness will also appear for the majority of the tour (3/30-4/20), with Coliseum taking their place the last four dates. One winner will get tickets to any date and some free schwag, including the new album on precious vinyl….woooo. Four more will get tickets to any show, but no wax. Click Read More for the dates (with a few more added since the initial posting) and how to enter.
Inquisition: Uproar! Live and Loud
In celebration of the recent live CD/DVD release from Inquisition; the band and No Idea Records (who are releasing the collection) are offering three lucky Punknews readers the chance to win a copy and some other exclusive schwag. The release details the band's reunion weekend last May with an audio CD featuring tracks from both nights, and a DVD with footage from both nights and a documentary. The release hits stores March 18 and can also be purchased at No Idea Records.com.
Win an Asus Eee PC from Enter Shikari
Heard of those Asus Eee PCs? They're these little laptops that run Linux and weigh about as much as a hardcover book. They're pretty popular right now, and so when Enter Shikari offered one to give away to one of you, we figured it'd be something worth checking out. Want to win one yourself? Then visit this page.
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