Forever Wings Fold have posted two songs from their forthcoming EP, Bravura. The album was recorded with Daniel Castleman (As I Lay Dying, Austrian Death Machine, I Am Ghost) at Tim Lambesis’s home studio in San Diego, CA. You can find the songs on their myspace page.

Upstate New York’s The Knockdown has posted three new songs on thier myspace page. The band will be releasing their debut full length, Test/Retest, this summer on Kiss of Death Records and will be touring through out the East Coast and Mid West this August and September. You can find the song on their myspace page

Florida’s Arm The Poor have posted some new music from their album, Blurring the Lines and Slurring the Rhymes. You can check them on their myspace page.
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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…

This week some idiot stole the grave stone marking the final resting place of Joy Division‘s Ian Curtis. Speaking of idiots, some enlightened individual at the St. Louis Warped Tour date thought it best to shot racial slurs at Gym Class Heroes‘ Travis McCoy. In the resulting confrontation the singer was arrested on a charge of third-degree assault. This incident got a response from Fall Out Boy bassist and Decaydance head honcho Pete Wentz, which was quite understandably miffed. Hawthorne Heights spoke out this week about the music industry’s problems, the same week that one prominent UK record company boss urged bands to avoid labels entirely . If you ask me, the major problem with the record industry is this delayed Dillinger Four record. The band may or may not be in the studio this month, but I believe nothing. Classic punk act the Damned is in also in the studio.

This weekend we posted the date for the Revival Tour featuring Chuck Ragan of Hot Water Music, Tim Barry of Avail and Ben Nichols of Lucero with appareances by Tom Gabel of Against Me!, Chris Wollard of Hot Water Music / The Draft, Kevin Seconds of 7Seconds, Chris McCaughan of the Lawrence Arms and others. Aside from the Fest this is the greatest concentration of Punknews reader approved acts that you’ll find anywhere. Speaking of the Fest, the upcoming 7th edition now has itself a teaser video. Also look for an upcoming tour from Streetlight Manifesto, the Swellers and the AKA’s. Plus 44‘s Travis Barker recorded drums for The Game’s Dope Boys. He was also named one of the “Best Punk Drummers” by Drum Magazine along with Green Day‘s Tre Cool, Bad Religion‘s Brooks Wackerman and All / Descendents‘ Bill Stevenson. This week brought footage of the Dropkick Murphys in the Blue Room and a video for “Help Me” from the Alkaline Trio. Streaming music arrived in the form of My Chemical Romance‘s live record and a cut from Panic At The Disco‘s Abbey Road sessions .

As it’s midway through the year we unveiled your Favourite Albums of 2008, as based on your album ratings. Voting continues so make sure you’ve got a Punknews account and that you’re clicking those stars.

This week we spoke with Dan Andriano of the Alkaline Trio (interview). We also had a hospital journal (in leiu of a tour journal) from Nat Coghlan of Transistor Transistor (journal). Our Video of the Week featured Smoke Or Fire performing “What Separates Us” at last year’s Fest in Gainesville, FL. This week’s edition of Vinyl File featured a look at upcoming releases. This week also brought new Streaming Music from, Applewood, ON-based ska/punk outfit Keepin’ 6, and Fort Collins, CO’s Tickle Me Pink.

So what’s coming up this week? Look for releases from Street Dogs, Wire, Me First and The Gimme Gimmes and Have Heart with tours kicking off from Dillinger Escape Plan (dates), A Wilhelm Scream (dates) and much anticipated shows featuring Dropkick Murphys and the Mighty Mighty Bosstones (dates) and Dillinger Four and the Circle Jerks (dates).
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You’ll recall the dancing punk robots we discussed a week ago. The `bots, controlled by a neural network and trained to love classic punk rock, were exhibited recently at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. The BBC now has video of the pogoing killbots robots in action. In their article on the news organization also details the some of the science behind the project.

The robots were created by artist Fiddian Warman, whose team based their adaptive artificial intelligence on on processes that take place in real biology. Warman formed a punk band for the exhibit dubbed Neurotic and the PVCs featuring guitarist Andrew Tweedie (Menace), drummer Chris Bashford (Chelsea) and bassist Rob Bartram (Chester). The band, along with a pair of openers, played for an audience of humans and robots this past weekend.
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