.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 this week… The People Must Have Something Good To Read On A Sunday This week's most popular stories Rise Against have responded to a controversy stirred up by Florida radio station BUZZ103. The band commented that "we discovered that we were scheduled to headline a stage sponsored by the US Army's Recruitment Dept. As a band that has worked in counter-recruitment in the past, we decided it would be hypocritical and inappropriate for us to headline this stage. To be clear, this was not an event to honor the military, this was an event that the US ARMY was interested in recruiting people at, and we felt that our fans should be free from that interference at a rock show on a Sunday night in a time of war." On his ongoing tour garage punk Jay Reatard has seen every member of his band quit. He responded with his usual level of bombast. A venue in Los Gatos, California has banned all-ages shows and upended their concert schedule due to a complaint regarding an interaction between a 13 year old and a man in his 20s at the venue. A recent study crunched the numbers on album sales last year, revealing that out of 115,000 albums that were released only 110 sold more than 250,000 copies, only 1,500 topped 10,000, and fewer than 6,000 sold more than 1,000.
The Lawrence Arms have detailed their upcoming EP Buttsweat And Tears. Members of Screeching Weasel, Rise Against, and Common Rider, along with the nephew of the President of Panama, are set to release a new full length under the name Torture The Artist. The Gaslight Anthem have planed a food drive for New York City on their upcoming October 15th. The Fest (documentary) preview and Dillinger Four set video National Underground have posted a preview of their upcoming documentary about the The Fest as well as a Dillinger Four set from last year's event. Against Me! have posted another studio video, this time chronicling their 45th day working on their new album. The upcoming video game Tony Hawk: Ride will include music from Replacements, NOFX, Green Day, Bronx, and the Stooges. This week also saw videos from AFI (the single "Medicate") and Brand New (the unreleased video for "Jesus"). Oh, and Yahoo! declared punk dead. Since Google ate their lunch they've got a lot of free time on their hands.
This week we said goodbye to Jon Guthrie (1983-2009), veteran of several Athens, GA bands. I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives Our Food Not Songs series of punk rock recipes featured Lemuria making Bugbear Squares. This week we spoke with Shane Told of Silverstein (interview), Andrew Vivian Horne of Bangers (interview), frontman Steve Brodsky of Cave In (interview), and Kenny Bridges of Moneen (interview).
Our Dispatches series of band blogs featured British singer-songwriter Mike Scott, currently on tour with Kevin Seconds (Episode 2). Our Video of the Week featured the Gaslight Anthem covering Hot Water Music's "Trusty Chords" on their recent tour. As always we brought you new streaming music from some great up and coming bands, including the new full length from Buffalo's Failures' Union, and the sophomore LP from Nothington titled Roads, Bridges and Ruins.
So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from Baroness, Junius, Say Anything, The Scenics and many others. We'll also see a huge number of tours kick off this week. Look for upcoming shows from Chuck Ragan with Jim Ward, Tim Barry, and Dave Hause (Revival Tour), Street Dogs with Civet (Europe), Flogging Molly and Gallows with others (Canada), All-American Rejects with American Steel (US), Glen Matlock of the Sex Pistols (UK) Poison The Well (Japan, Australia), Down By Law and the Spears (US), The King Khan and BBQ Show (North America), The Hold Steady with Two Cow Garage (US), Bane with Blacklisted and Foundation (US), and New Found Glory (US).
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Check the Punknews Music page to stream all sorts of anticipated new music including the Cherry Poppin' Daddies re-release of Susquehanna, the new full length from Baltimore, Maryland's Ruiner, new material from London-based Apologies, I Have None, the new 7" from Washington, DC-based Lion of Judah, the new full length from Teenage Bottlerocket, Slackers frontman Vic Ruggiero's new solo project, a 7" from Newark, NJ-based Troublemaker, a preview of a new song from AFI, the new album Phoenix from Los Angeles' Orange, the latest from Rochester, NY's Such Gold, the Sidekicks' new full length for Red Scare Records, the new EP from Rochester, NY's Sakes Alive!!, the new full length from Chicago's The Bomb, and the final full length from Brooklyn's Nakatomi Plaza.
Win a prize package from Relient K
On October 6, 2009, Relient K will be releasing their new album Forget and Not Slow Down. It's the first new studio album from the band since 2007's Five Score and Seven Years Ago. To celebrate, we've got two prize packages from the band.
New releases from The Perpetual Motion Machine The Perpetual Motion Machine label has two new releases out, and they're so excited they want to give some copies of them away to lucky Punknews readers. Prizes include CD and vinyl versions of the new full-length from the Catalyst, Swallow Your Teeth, as well as the new album from Kowloon Walled City, Gambling on the Richter Scale (though the latter was recently posted as a free download).
Win tickets to every stop on the Bridge 9 Tour
In a week, Bridge Nine Records will be kicking off their eponymous tour with Strike Anywhere, Crime In Stereo, Polar Bear Club and Ruiner. To celebrate, the label has hooked us up with a set of two tickets for each date on the tour. All you have to do is fill out the form linked here and pick your preferred city.
Win a bunch of stuff from Teenage Bottlerocket
To celebrate the release of their Fat Wreck Chords debut, They Came from the Shadows, Teenage Bottlerocket have hooked us up with a prize package featuring a kick drum head, a limited 7-inch and more.
Win gear, music and more from Revolution Mother
We've got a prize package from Revolution Mother for one lucky winner. Along with a copy of the band's new Ferret Records release, Rollin' with That Mutha, we've got an Affliction hat, a ton of Monster Energy Drink, a skate deck, an apparel pack from Active and a pair of Von Zipper sunglasses.
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