.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 Some major tours were announced this past week. Rise Against will hit the road this summer with Rancid for a co-headlining tour of the US and Canada. Winnipeg's Propagandhi are set to venture into the US with Paint It Black. Murder By Death and Fake Problems will pair up as well. The Gaslight Anthem, following their tour in Europe with Frank Turner and Polar Bear Club, will tour the US with Heartless Bastards and Good Old War. The Warped Tour is still rolling out acts, this week adding Runner Runner, Vanna and Goodnight Anthem.
Bomb The Music Industry has delayed their new album Scrambles until February. Off With Their Heads will release a singles collection soon titled The '69 Sound. Say Anything discussed their next full length. Green Day are also rumored to be finished recording. No Friends, which features members of Municipal Waste and New Mexican Disaster Squad, posted new songs. Leathermouth, the new project from My Chemical Romance's Frank Iero is streaming its new album. This week brought video of Blake Schwarzenbach performing acoustic in Brooklyn, and Lilly Allen covering the Clash's "Straight to Hell." Look for the Gaslight Anthem on Letterman this month. Also keep an eye out for music from Social Distortion, the Sword and Samhain in the new Guitar Hero: Metallica. We also had a report back on the success Dexter Holland of the Offspring has had with his new hot sauce. I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives Our Dispatches series of band tour blogs featured Tyler Densley of San Diego's Lewd Acts (Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3) Lauren Measure and Fid of New Brunswick, NJ's The Measure SA (Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3) Ryan Young of Minneapolis, MN's Off With Their Heads (Episode 1) and Jeff Rosenstock of New York's Bomb The Music Industry (Episode 1). This week we spoke with Ray Carlisle and Kody Templeman of Teenage Bottlerocket (interview). As always we brought you new Streaming Music including the Marked Men's new full length Ghosts, and the new record from New Brunswick, NJ-based Let Me Run. So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from Bruce Springsteen, Franz Ferdinand, Leathermouth, Sound and Shape, and the Marked Men and a reissue from the Beastie Boys with tours kicking off from SNFU (Europe), Avenged Sevenfold (US), Avenged Sevenfold (US), the Slackers (US, Europe), NOFX (US with Smoke Or Fire, UK).
Check the Punknews Music page to stream all sorts of anticipated new music including Brooklyn, NY-based Lymbyc Systym, New Haven CT's Blackened, Oakland, CA's Nobunny and their full length Love Visions, Nashville, TN's Engineer Records act Sound and Shape, I Am Love, the new full length from Washington, DC based Days, New York, NY-based Caleb Lionheart's new full length Think Hardcore, Play Pop Punk, Poughkeepsie, NY-based The Color Wheels, the new release from Belgium's Daggers, and the new full length from San Diego, CA-based Lanterns, Bloomington, IN-based Medusa, Seattle, WA-based Rebuilt.
Polyvinyl Vinyl Contest
It's time for our first contest of 2009. Today, our contest comes from the venerable Polyvinyl Records. This month, the label will be releasing Owen's (the ep), The One Up Downstairs 7-inch and American Football's American Football EP on vinyl. To celebrate, the label has provided two retail sets and one test press set of all three albums.
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