Set Your Goals have dropped off their ongoing tour temporarily due to health issues. They will rejoin on October 10th:

We wanted to let everyone know that everything is back on track and our bandmate is on the road to recovery. Set Your Goals will be joining up with the Alternative Press Fall Ball Tour on 10/10 in Chico, CA and we honestly can’t wait. We wanted to say thanks to all of you that have sent your thoughts and well wishes during this time. The truth is we could never repay your for all of your support and are looking forward to getting out there and playing for all of you. Big thanks also goes out to everyone at Alternative Press and our label, Epitaph, for their assistance and understanding in dealing with this situation.

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The Perpetual Motion Machine label has two new releases out, and they’re so excited they want to give some copies of them away to lucky Punknews readers.

Prizes include CD and vinyl versions of the new full-length from the Catalyst, Swallow Your Teeth, as well as the new album from Kowloon Walled City, Gambling on the Richter Scale (though the latter was recently posted as a free download).
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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…

Andrew W.K., citing a recent “intense personal experience,” has decided to relocate his upcoming tour dates away from religious venues. While he was light on the details, he stated that “I love going to churches and hearing music there – but I can’t play my music on that sort of stage after what happened.” Amanda Palmer of the Dresden Dolls got people talking this week with a blog post about fan donations. She commented “If you think i’m going to pass up a chance to put my hat back down in front of the collected audience on my virtual sidewalk and ask them to give their hard-earned money directly to me instead of to Roadrunner Records, Warner Music Group, Ticketmaster, and everyone else out there who’s been shamelessly raping both fan and artist for years, you’re crazy.” John Joseph of Cro-Mags fame announced that his upcoming novel would be titled Meat Is For Pussies. Film industry news sources this week announced that Fox Searchlight is interested in the upcoming Ramones biopic. Research firm Forrester Research stated that the music industry needs a “radical overhaul” to thrive. The report, as covered by Ars Technica, states that users should be able to “completely customize and share their music in an extremely open, platform-agnostic manner.”

Thomas of Strike Anywhere annotated their new album Iron Front with a track-by-track preview. Fall Out Boy is set to release a Greatest Hits CD soon. Social Distortion‘s guitarist discussed their new album. The classic punk act hit the Foo Fighters‘ studio this week. This week the schedule for The Fest 8 was announced. Streetlight Manifesto is playing a show at the Starland Ballroom tonight that features every track from the records Everything Goes Numb and Somewhere in the Between. This week saw North American tour dates from Thursday, Dillinger Escape Plan, and Fake Problems, European tour dates from All-American Rejects and American Steel. Footage of the Gaslight Anthem playing the Beatles’ “Come Together” was also unveiled this week.

This week we said goodbye to The Death Set co-founder Beau Velasco (-2009) and Trial / Three Inches of Blood member Brian Redman (1978-2009).

Our Food Not Songs series of punk rock recipes featured Lemuria making Bugbear Squares. Banner Pilot, Teenage Bottlerocket and Cobra Skulls topped the list of Your Favorite Records from September. This week we spoke with Chris Wollard of Hot Water Music, the Draft and now Chris Wollard and the Ship Thieves (interview), guitarist / vocalist Paul Pendley of Red City Radio (interview), guitarist Nick Bergheimer of Landmines (interview), guitarist Mike McLeod of madcowboys (interview), David “Spoonboy” Combs of The Max Levine Ensemble (interview), and AFI frontman Davey Havok (interview). As always we brought you new streaming music from some great up and coming bands, including the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies re-release of Susquehanna.

So what’s coming up this week? Look for new releases from Built To Spill, Cheap Girls, Gogol Bordello, HORSE The Band, Lucero, Mission Of Burma, Nothington, Relient K, Strike Anywhere and many others. We’ll also see a huge number of tours kick off this week. Look for upcoming shows from Swingin’ Utters (US), Frank Turner and Fake Problems (UK), Bob Mould (US), Alexisonfire and Anti-Flag with Ghost of a Thousand and the Fall of Troy (Europe), Nothington (US), The Phenomenauts and Go Jimmy Go (US), and Teenage Bottlerocket with Cobra Skulls (US). This week will also see on of the Small Brown Bike reunion shows (details).

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The Fest has posted the official schedule for the 8th installment of their yearly punk rock extravaganza.

Find out when and where all the bands are playing here.
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We’ve posted some new reviews. You can check them out below:

• AFI – Crash Love
• The Cherry Poppin’ Daddies – Skaboy JFK: The Skankin¹ Hits of the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies
• Lewd Acts – Black Eye Blues
• Venice Is Sinking – Okay
• Attica! Attica! – Napalm and Nitrogen
• Spires / 1994! – Split [12 inch]
• The Modern Society – The Beat Goes On
• The Deepsea Goes – Oraoneiroi
• Team Stray – Gender Studies
• The Mountain Goats – All Hail West Texas

You can check out any of our 8700 reviews right here
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To celebrate the release of their Fat Wreck Chords debut, They Came from the Shadows, Teenage Bottlerocket have hooked us up with a prize package featuring a kick drum head, a limited 7-inch and more.

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Fall Out Boy is looking to release a new Greatest Hits CD. The album will include material from the band’s major label and Fueled By Ramen releases including Take This to Your Grave, From Under The Cork Tree, Infinity on High and Folie á Deux. The album will feature two previously unreleased tracks as well.

It’s due out November.
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Social Distortion spoke to Billboard about the sound and tone of their next album:

We may not put a record out every year like a lot of bands but we work really hard on our show. We practice hard and we just focus on the songs we’re playing. What we don’t do is just go out there and bash out the old hits and call it a night. We’ll be working on songs that are 20 years old. And if it hasn’t been sounding right, like at the shows, Mike will want to work on that and find out what the problem is. Just try to get that magic back to play that song the way it needs to be played.

Some of the songs were more old school punk rock based, but lyrically the thing that people seemed to really grasp was the somewhat optimistic nature of the songs and the lyric. Not quite so angry as most of the past stuff. There are always things you can get angry about, but it would be a different sort of an anger, a more mature level of anger. We’re not 22-year-old kids. We have to write from where we’re at. We can’t pretend we’re teenage punk rockers running the streets still, because we’re not. That would be ridiculous.

Check out the interview here.
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John Joseph of Cro-Mags fame has announced his upcoming novel, Meat is for Pussies. John talks about the book in a new Examiner interview, saying:

I have been a vegetarian/vegan almost 30 years now, people today are bombarded by advertising for cheap fast food and ingestion of those foods not only wreak havoc on your system but most of the havoc wreaked on the planet is due to the slaughter of the animals.

It’s still me, my anecdotes used for examples, how I wrote “Evolution of….” and “Meat Is For Pussies” and any other book will be the same because I write in a conversational style, just like I’m sitting around a table with the reader.”

Joseph notes that he is currently training for the Ironman competition in 2012, the same year he celebrates his 49th birthday.

Check out the interview here.
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Foo Fighters have posted the video for “Wheels.” The track is one of the new songs on their forthcoming Greatest Hits album due out November 3, 2009.

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MxPx is working on a new EP, Left Coast Punk. The band has put together six songs already and are currently working on artwork and are also considering adding rare material or video material to the release.

Frontman Mike Herrera discussed the EP in a video.
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Andrew W.K. has moved two of the shows on his current tour, due to their original schedule having them take place in religious venues. He explained:

A couple days ago I had a really intense personal experience and it made it very clear to me that I cannot and should not play on the main alter of a religious temple. Please understand, I have nothing against religion or temples of any kind. In fact, I love going to churches and hearing music there – but I can’t play my music on that sort of stage after what happened the day before yesterday.

The best I can do to describe my experience, is to say that the world opened up to me, and I received it, as Spirit and Love and of course, a lot of fun and pleasure. It was a sexual feeling, and I just didn’t feel right about bringing that onto a holy stage. My choice to move the venues is out of respect for this feeling, for myself, and my body, and for the alters themselves.

The shows in question were in Washington, D.C. and Toronto, ON. They will move to nearby, secular venues.
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Shook Ones will follow their appearance at The Fest this year with a tour alongside Make Do and Mend and We Are the Union.

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