Hello everyone and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back in the week in Punknews. I'm Ricky Frankel and 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 and review is built from tips from our wonderful, good-looking readers, so get to submitting a story, feel free to submit a review or if you are a photographer continue reading below. Here's what got the strange, slow and old community talking this week: Photo Credit: John Paul Allen / PunkWorldViews.com
- Check out the Punknews list of things to do in Las Vegas during Punk Rock Bowling!
- Win tickets to see Weaves!
- Win a signed EP from The Dwarves!
- Andrew W.K. streamed his new album.
- Punk Rock Bowling announced a Fat Wreck Chords-themed club show.
- Pouzza Fest added more bands to its line up.
- Metallica announced a tour.
- A Wilhelm Scream announced a 10th anniversary reissue of Career Suicide.
- The Bombpops announced a new 7-inch and released a new song.
- Alice Bag released a new video.
- Ghost announced a tour.
- The line up for the final cross country Warped Tour was announced.
And so ends another wonderful week for the Punknews community. Tonight let’s just kick back, maybe break out the drinks, gather around the digital bonfire and talk. Maybe you saw (or will see) an awesome show, found a great new band, or chat about anything else you would like. We leave it to you, the always respectful and courteous readers and commenters. See you way too bright and early on Monday morning.
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