It’s Sunday, October 7th, 2007. For the next two weeks I’m on vacation, first heading down to Boston to clean up all the hardcore crew violence then travelling north to Nova Scotia to find where Blake Schwarzenbach’s been hiding. So what does that mean for your trusty Gazing? It means some other sucker editor will have to will step up and take the reins. Who will it be? Will they go mad under the pressure? Tune in next Sunday.

The people must have something good to read on a Sunday

So blowing away just about anything that’s happened in the music industry this year, Radiohead completely changed the game with the announcement of their new record, an album for which you can pay whatever you want for. Sure, Bomb The Music Industry and other have done that for years, but their actions don’t quite get the world talking about it. This kicked off a week of, well, navel gazing among music fans and insiders. A member of Throwdown chatted about downloading with pundit Bob Lefsetz, encouraging people to bury the label. Perspectives came in on the problem with leaking albums and why former music buyers are jumping ship.

Against Me! talked briefly about the incident in Tallahassee and conflicts with their early fans. The band was also, um, paid tribute to by a Dirty Deitrich cover of “Stop.” Strung Out joined the list of ripped off bands, with their van and trailer stolen in Philadelphia. Taking Back Sunday fans fretted at the departure of guitarist and co-vocalist Fred Mascherin. Glen Matlock has asked Johnny Rotten not to swear at upcoming Sex Pistols gigs. We had news on a number of upcoming releases this week. NOFX posted the track listing for “They’ve Actually Gotten Worse Live,” A Wilhelm Scream released new music from Career Suicide, Nirvana‘s unplugged is finally headed to DVD, and a Johnny Cash Tribute was announced that will feature Chuck Ragan, Russ Rankin of Good Riddance and the Loved Ones.

Oh, and despite what you may have heard Ian MacKaye‘s not dead.

We talked to Chris #2 from Anti-Flag this week (interview). Our Video of the Week featured part five of our video countdown to the Fest 6. This week we checked a performance from melodic hardcore act No Trigger. The tenth edition of Vinyl File featured a chat with Jacob Bannon, singer of Converge and owner of Deathwish Inc. We also streamed music from the grand return of American Steel and their new full length Destory Their Future, as well as The Great Deceiver, a trio featuring Tomas Lindberg, formerly of influential metal act At The Gates.

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