Hello everyone and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back in the week in Punknews. I'm Brittany Strummer. I'll be your guide through some of the juiciest, most popular and otherwise noteworthy stories from the last seven days. Remember, every Punknews story is built from tips from our wonderful, good-looking readers, so get to submitting. Here's what got the strange, slow and old community talking this week:

• We sat down and had a chat with Jesse Michaels.
• Tim Barry announced a west coast tour.
• Babes In Toyland reformed and announced new shows.
• Saint Vitus vocalist Scott "Wino" Weinrich shed light on recent deportation from Norway.
• Reel Big Fish announced plans to release a holiday EP titled Happy Skalidays.
• Patrick Stewart was cast as a villain in an upcoming film about punks vs skins.
• Dropkick Murphys cancelled a show after a man ran in front of their tour bus and was killed.

Click below to check out this past week's collection of new streaming music, features and interviews. Talk amongst yourselves and we'll see you Monday morning.