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…

So this website has been around for around a decade now! Who knew? Our good friends at Pastepunk were apparently keeping track and they graciously decided to chat with Punknews’ Aubin Paul, Adam White and Brian Shultz to celebrate the occasion. Speaking of ten year anniversaries, Rise Against have one coming up. The band will celebrate with a show in Chicago dubbed “Songs from the Fat Years” that will feature just that, including cuts from 2001’s The Unraveling and 2003’s Revolutions Per Minute. Weakerthans frontman John K. Samson is set to release a 7 inch series honouring the roads of his home province of Manitoba. Poison The Well were the latest band to suffer theft on the road, losing their van and gear from a hotel parking lot in Detroit.

This week brought news that the Smashing Pumpkins are set to release a 44-song album periodically and for free. London’s The Steal are calling it quits. This week had upcoming show announcements from the reunited Small Brown Bike. We also had word that Shook Ones, Title Fight and We Are the Union are set to tour together. We had more Fest 8 confirmations from Sakes Alive!!, We Are The Union, Defeater, Hostage Life and many more. Brand New unveiled their new record Daisy in a limited stream. Green Day unveiled the new video for their single “East Jesus Nowhere,” and also performed the song live at VMAs. All Time Low also posted their clip for “Damned If I Do Ya (Damned If I Don’t).” Tom Gabel had some fun with the latest Against Me! studio video, addressing concerns that his others were boring. The trailer for new punk rock-themed web sitcom Oblivion also premiered this week. Artist Rob Dobi also added 5 new scenesters to his Your Scene Sucks collection.

This week we said goodbye to legendary punk poet Jim Carroll (1949-2009).

This week we spoke with vocalist Deeker Johnston of Joey Terrifying (interview), bassist Ray Carlisle of Teenage Bottlerocket (interview), The Encyclopedia of Punk author Brian Cogan (interview), Chris Matulich and Jay Northington of Nothington (interview), and guitarist / vocalist Trevor Reilly of A Wilhelm Scream (interview).

As always we brought you new streaming music from some great up and coming bands, including the new 7″ from Washington, DC-based Lion of Judah, the new full length from Teenage Bottlerocket, Slackers frontman Vic Ruggiero‘s new solo project, a 7″ from Newark, NJ-based Troublemaker, and a preview of a new song from AFI.

So what’s coming up this week? Look for new releases from Brand New, Islands, Owen, Ruiner, the Almighty Defenders, and Times New Viking with tours kicking off from Bad Religion and NOFX (Australia), The Queers with The Leftovers (US), The Academy Is, Mayday Parade and Set Your Goals (US), Virgins and Lords (US), A Wilhelm Scream (Europe), The Spits (US), A Day To Remember with Parkway Drive and others (US).

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