Hello everybody and welcome to your all-new all-different 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:

• A Wilhelm Scream posted their new video for the song “Fun Time” from their recent EP.
• Four Year Strong left Decaydance and signed to Universal Motown, with their major label debut due in March.
• The Number Twelve Looks Like You announced their break up.
• The Stooges finally made it into the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame.
• 90s punk documentary “One Nine Nine Four” is raising money to complete the film.
• The storied Jay Reatard looked back on his busy, sometimes controversial year.
• A new biopic spotlighting Blink-182 is in unveiled.
• Bad Religion looks set to hit the studio in April.

With that we hand over this Sunday evening to you, the Punknews community. From that glorious, likely bearded rabble we’ve see the creation of everything from message boards and Punknews fantasy sports leagues to even a band or two. So talk amongst yourselves and we’ll see you Monday…
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Throughout the month we’ve been posting Best of 2009 lists from our friends in the punk world. Check out these picks:

• Jordan (Strung Out), Dave House, Paul (Silverstein): lists
• Frank Turner, Elliot (How Dare You), Jim (Soul Control): lists
• Stevo (1234 Go! Records) / Eric (O Pioneers!!!) / Jeff (Bomb The Music Industry!): lists
• Tony (Municipal Waste), Tony (No Idea), Kevin (North Lincoln): lists
• Jake (Rehasher), PJ (Grabass Charlestons), Failures’ Union: lists
• Vinnie (Less Than Jake), Jason (Hot Water Music), Useless ID: lists

In the past few weeks we spoke with a number of bands. Don’t miss out on these interviews:

• Keith Buckley of Every Time I Die
• Adam Turla of Murder by Death
• Chuck Robertson of the Mad Caddies
• Kurt Ballou of Converge
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We’ve theorized that you visit other websites out there, and we know it can be tough to leave the calming blue glow of the `Org, so we’ll help by infecting the rest of the web with Punknews content:

• Be our friends at the Punknews MySpace page
• Come hang out at the Punknews Facebook fan page or the Facebook group
• We love getting your feedback via Twitter
• Contribute your listening habits to the weekly charts at our Last.fm group
• We just redesigned the Punknews Tumblr
• Your photos in our Flickr Pool can be seen in the sidebar here on the `Org
• Any high quality video we shoot can be found at Vimeo

Your trusty Punknews staffers and reviewers have all sorts of projects on the go, everything from poorly spelled and oft neglected blogs to big official world domination schemes. Make sure to check out Bryne Yancey’s podcast What We Hate, Chris Moran’s collection of recordings online at Vimeo, editor Justin August’s tumblog at JustinAugust.org and Adam White’s tumblog at AdamWhite.org.

Of course your day wouldn’t be complete without knowing every inane detail of your humble editors’ lives. Follow @adamwhite, @jesseraub, @justinaugust, @brian_shultz, @bconoley and @bryneyancey‘s every move at Twitter.
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