Who’s steering this thing? I have no clue. Since Adam is on vacation carousing around the East Coast of both Canadia and the People’s Republic of America we’re lost without a rudder. A car without a steering wheel. A bike without a stem!

He’s obviously the wittiest of us editors, so we’ll just skip to the wrapup. Sorry about that folks.

The people must have something good to read on a Sunday

As always, anything about the clean and narrow lifestyle known as Straight Edge brings out people’s debating fingers and this year’s wish of Happy Edge Day was no different. Coming from the opposite direction, tricksters NOFX released a song from their upcoming live album without all their blabbing. Thanks Mike. Blender took some shots at punk icons like Greg Graffin, Henry Rollins and…Panic at the Disco in their “Worst Lyricists EVAR!” article. Some other well known folks joined forces to form The Innocent while on the other end of the “cred spetrum” Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz to open Clandestine store in Chicago The much loved Latterman made it o-fficial this week, they are no longer alive. As a band. All the guys are doing just fine. On the other hand, there’s a Kurt Cobain biopic in the works. Looking to record in another country? Better mail that home, since Homeland Security seems to be confiscating solo projects.

This week’s Vinyl File looked at Rarities and upcoming releases. Oh, and there was some hubbub about a detailed schedule of THE FEST being posted. Whatever that is.

ps: The Mohawk Toupée? Almost as ridicuous as Universal’s plan to sell singles on USB drives(FOR TEN DOLLARS!).

We got a little Hot Water Music love (cough) and a new video from the Weakerthans.
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Founding member of J Church and all around well-loved punk icon Lance Hahn has passed away. Hahn had been comatose since Friday, October 12th following a collapse during dialysis. According to a post attributed to Hahn’s girlfriend:

as far as the doctors can tell, this collapse was due to a sudden, drastic drop in blood pressure, which in turn was probably caused by a recurrence of the infection he had had in september combined with the stress of dialysis. he received immediate cpr from medical professionals at the dialysis center, but as it took fifteen or twenty minutes to resuscitate him, he suffered neurological damage from lack of oxygen to the brain, leaving him in a coma from which he never returned.

Lance Hahn was the lead singer, guitarist, and founding member of J Church. He also wrote extensive “punk rock history” articles for Maximumrocknroll. In addition of all of this, he found time to run Honey Bear Records. Hahn was working on a compliation book of writings on anarcho-punk bands, called “Let the Tribe Increase,” to be released on AK Press.

All of us at Punknews.org extend our deepest condolences to Hahn’s friends and family.
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Good Luck, the Bloomington, Indiana-based pop-punk band that features Matty Pop Chart, Ginger from One Reason and Mike Harpring Jr., has posted two new demos that they recorded with Mike Dixon. You can hear them at their MySpace page. Expect these and four more songs to be available on a demo CD-R soon.
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Facedown Records act Kingston Falls has posted two new songs online from their forthcoming release. You can check out “The Great Divide” and “The Illusionist” on MySpace.

Facedown signed the band last month.
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Driving Music the new project from Fábio Andrade, former frontman of Brazilian pop-punk-rockers the Invisibles, has posted five tracks from his demo. You can hear all five tracks split up between PureVolume and MySpace.

The Invisibles called it quits last year after the release of their Hollywood EP and their sophomore LP Fireworks in 2004.
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Naked Raygun will be hosting a DVD release party for their upcoming retrospective What Poor Gods We Make: The Story and Music Behind Naked Raygun. The exclusive showing will happen at Reggie’s in Chicago on Sunday, November 4th. The DVD comes out November 06, 2007 and you can purchase a copy early at the screening. You can check out details here.

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Shook Ones have announced some upcoming dates this fall. The band will also be performing a special Halloween show at Restless Bodies in Norfolk which will be filmed for Fuel TV.

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As we continue to wait for news on the follow up to 2003’s Splinter, Offspring have announced a tour of Australia alongside Incubus and Social Distortion.

The yet-to-be-titled new record is expected in 2008 via Columbia Records. It will be the band’s first studio album recorded with drummer Josh Freese (he Vandals, Devo, Guns N’ Roses, Suicidal Tendencies) though the band’s touring lineup will feature Pete Parada.

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The Action Design, which features former Tsunami Bomb members Matt McKenzie and Emily Whitehurst, have announced fall tour dates starting next month.

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