.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 strange, slow, old people in the community talking… The People Must Have Something Good To Read On A Sunday This week's most popular stories In the lead up to Tuesday's US election we heard from a number of punk personalities, including John Doe of X and Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys. Members of the Ramones' families also publicly sparred over politics. After Barack Obama's triumph we heard from a number of bands. The always opinionated Anti-Flag weighed in. The Dropkick Murphys, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, and No Use For A Name sent comments. The Loved Ones, Rise Against, Reel Big Fish and Black President also spoke out. Pittsburgh's Punchline even released a tribute cover of "What a Wonderful World" in honor of the President-elect. With the election behind us groups are looking forward to Inauguration Day, with Anti-Flag, United Nations, the A.K.A.s, and Ruiner planning the "Demand in DC" event.
US politics aside, there was plenty of music news this week. Canadian hardcore act Liferuiner's final show ended with handcuffs. Max Bemis of Say Anything and Chris Conley of Saves The Day unveiled Two Tongues. Strung Out set a title and release date for their upcoming rarities compilation. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones released new songs and announced plans for a new 7 inch and album. My Chemical Romance are preparing the Three Cheers vinyl for December. Offshoot bands Nothington and the Action Design are opening for the Tsunami Bomb reunion shows. Red Scare act Cobra Skulls are also planning to hit the road soon.
This week we said goodbye to Detriot soul artist Nathaniel Mayer (1944-2008). I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives We tallied up your ratings and unvieled your favourite records from October, with Dillinger Four, Fucked Up and Rise Against coming up on top. We've also been spotlighting some bands playing at the upcoming Punknews sponsored Fun Fun Fun Fest. Check out looks at Bad Brains (1), Parts and Labor (2), ALL (3), and Trash Talk (4). This week we spoke with Warship, featuring two former members of From Autumn To Ashes (interview). Our Video of the Week featured Paint It Black's guerilla U-Haul trailer show at Fest 7. This week's edition of Vinyl File featured a look at upcoming releases. This week's Editors' Picks recommended music from Thousandaires and Tellison. As always we brought you new Streaming Music including Warship's Supply and Depend, Tim Barry of Avail's new record Manchester, Scranton, PA-based Tigers Jaw, and New Brunswick, NJ-based Scream Hello.
So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from International Superheroes of Hardcore, Less Than Jake (box set), the Bronx, with tours kicking off from Agnostic Front / Outbreak / the Carrier / First Blood (interviews), Far From Finished with the Casualties and the Generators (interviews), Alesana / A Static Lullaby / Greeley Estates (interviews), and the Black Atlantic (interviews).
Check the Punknews Music page to stream all sorts of anticipated new music including the song "Six Days a Week" from the Bronx, the new album from Israeli punk outfit Useless ID, the new charity-benefiting compilation All Aboard: A Tribute To Johnny Cash, the new solo album from Lagwagon frontman Joey Cape, Columbus, Ohio's Two Cow Garage, the new full length from Los Angeles-based Roll the Tanks, Jersey Shores, the new album from Seattle's Akimbo, the new EP from Dead To Me titled Little Brother, Orlando, Florida's Virgins, featuring Sam Johnson of New Mexican Disaster Squad, Dallas, Texas-based True Widow, featuring members of Slowride and The Mag Seven, Dillinger Four's long-awaited new record C I V I L W A R, the debut full length debut from Shorebirds, featuring Matt Canino of Latterman and Jawbreaker's Chris Bauermeister, Orlando's How Dare You, featuring former members of As Friends Rust and Hand to Hand, the sole LP from now-defunct RVA melodic hardcore act Resonance, the new EP from San Francisco's Shuteye Unison, an EP from Long Beach, CA's Joshua Lanes, and Boca Raton, FL hardcore outfit Fallen From The Sky.
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