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…

Each year’s Warped Tour brings about a predictable chorus of criticism, but there were two this week that grabbed your attention. Broadway Calls discussed their vehicle troubles and took a few swipes at the genres represented on the tour, while webzine Somethingawful set their guns on just about everyone. In the video game realm heavy metal giants Metallica announced that they’d debut their next album with Guitar Hero while the next Rock Band game will feature bands like AFI, Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth, and the Talking Heads. Anarcho-punk label Profane Existence is shutting down, although their magazine and distro will remain intact. Face To Face has recruited drummer Danny Thompson (of The Uprising) to fill in for Pete Parada while he tours with the Offspring. Philadelphia legends the Dead Milkmen will reunite to perform at Fun Fun Fun Fest In Austin, TX.

Rise Against have announced the release of their new album Appeal To Reason and tour plans with Alkaline Trio, Thrice, and Gaslight Anthem. We heard details on Fall Out Boy‘s writing process, I Set My Friends On Fire‘s Epitaph debut, the timeline for the next Bad Religion album, and Rhino’s second round of Replacements reissues. Ann Beretta announced their final show plans for Richmond and Gainesville. Jesse Michaels of Operation Ivy/Common Rider and Jeff Ott of Crimpshrine/Fifteen have pair up for some acoustic shows. Riot Fest will feature bands like the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, ALL, TSOL, and Reagan Youth. The Ska Is Dead Tour is presenting a pair of shows this year dubbed Skankgsiving ’08 featuring acts like the Pietasters, and the Toasters. On the video front Dragonforce launched the clip for “Heroes of Our Time” while the Aquabats! posted clips from the The Aquabats! Super Show pilot. Finally we had the first audio from One Day As A Lion, featuring Zack de la Rocha of Rage Against the Machine and drummer Jon Theodore, formerly of the Mars Volta.

This week we spoke with vocalist Nick Babeu the Trigger Effect (interview), guitarist/vocalist Chuck Ragan and bassist Jason Black of Hot Water Music (interview), and Fred Mascherino of The Color Fred (interview) This week’s edition of Vinyl File featured a look at upcoming releases and a contest to win an Off With Their Heads test pressing. This week also brought new Streaming Music from, Austin’s The Dirty Hearts, the full length East/West from Bridge and Tunnel, Connecticut-based atmospheric hardcore act They and The Children, and Montreal-based skate punks The Real Deal.

So what’s coming up this week? Look for releases from Off With Their Heads, Misery Signals and Pinhead Gunpowder with tours kicking off from Cobra Skulls (USA), and Rise And Fall (USA).
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Los Angeles, CA’s Terror has debuted their new video for the song “Never Alone” on MTV‘s Headbanger’s Blog. The song is from the album The Damned, The Shamed, which came out this June.

You can watch the video here.
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Bomb The Music Industry has set up a long list of upcoming projects for your perusal. The projects number seven and include splits, DVDs, singles, covers and some new bands. You can get the whole list by clicking Read More. It includes a split 7″ with Mustard Plug, a single for the Art of the Underground Single Series, a seven inch inspired by NOFX‘s Fuck The Kids approach, a DVD split with Shinobu, a split with Andrew Jackson Jihad, some Regina Spektor covers and a new band or two including Sheena from Lemuria.
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Denver’s Pinhead Circus will be returning on July 26th for a one night reunion show. Pinhead Circus was a long running staple of the Rocky Mountain punk scene, releasing numerous recordings, and many tours of the U.S., Canada and Japan. Enduring countless line-up changes, including Dave Barker (Drag the River/ Rocky Votoloto) , Brandon Barnes(Rise Against) and Chris Fogel (the Gamits), Pinhead called it quits after their last show on May 25th 2002. The band’s last studio recording, The Black Power of Romance, came out a year earlier via BYO Records.

The show will take place Saturday, July 26th at the Marquee Theater in Denver, CO With Sleeperhorse, Eyes and Ears, and Whiskey Kiss. Doors open at 8pm, and the show is all ages. Tickets are $10 dollars and are available now at the Marquee box office and online at www.sodajerkpresents.com.
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Chunksaah is continuing their march through Jersey’s musical history with their upcoming 25th anniversary release of Adrenalin O.D.’s debut LP The Wacky Hi-Jinks of Adrenalin O.D.. The first disc of the set will be the 15 track remastered version of Wacky and the second disc will include 33 songs pulled from their debut EP Let’s Barbeque (recorded in 15 minutes), their first live session on WFMU’s legendary Pat Duncan show, live tracks from City Gardens, as well as impossible to find compilation tracks. Includes a 12 age booklet with lyrics, rare photos and flyers, and liner notes by Jersey Beat’s Jim Testa. Pre-orders for the album will also receive a 23 track live CD, Phat N. Old – Live on WFMU.

You can check out some samples at Adrenalin O.D.’s MySpace page.
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Whitby, ON’s Protest the Hero have announced an iTunes exclusive three track EP titled The Sequoia Throne Remix EP. The EP will feature the title track remixed by C0ndu1t, L-Ion, and producer Devin Townsend.

The Sequoia Throne Remix EP will be released August 5, 2008. Protest most recently released the full length Fortress.
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Moral Crux have announced plans to do a complete re-recording of their album Nothing But The Truth, along with a brand new full length. This continues the Jailhouse! Records series of Moral Crux vinyl remasters, which began with the debut self-titled full length and most recently with the Pop Culture Assassins album. Next up to get the reissue treatment will be the record Was A Teenage Teenager.

The label is also continuing to reissue out of print albums from Tampa punk group Pink Lincolns. Recently, the label unleashed a remastered and reissued version of Pink Lincolns’ Back From The Pink Room. Jailhouse! plans to continue the reissues with the band’s release Suck and Bloat.

The releases have all been pulled from the original recordings, and mastered using DMM technology to achieve a purported “audiophile quality.”
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Former Killtakers singer, Ben Clemons, has formed a new project. Red Sky Nights has just finished recording their Demo EP, available on vinyl September 23, and will be streaming the entire EP this week on their myspace page. The EP features Ben Kettleson from Boston based The Glow on keys.

Toronto’s The Chronic have put up two songs online. Check them out on their MySpace

Cheap Tragedies have posted two videos from their recent trip to Canuckistan and a few songs online. The tracks come from their upcoming 7″‘s and LP. You can check out the videos here and here. A preview of the opener for the LP Zodiac has been posted on Mad at the World’s myspace page. Other tracks can be found at their MySpace page.
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