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
• Nat Rufus of Blacklist Royals
  Our Video Of The Week featured Chris Wollard and the Ship Thieves playing “No Exception” from the final night of their recent tour. Check it out here.

  We’ve started posting Best of 2009 lists from our friends in the punk world. This week be brought you picks from Strung Out‘s Jordan Burns, Dave House, Silverstein‘s Paul Koehler, Frank Turner, Elliot Meyer of How Dare You and Jim Connolly of Soul Control. Check them out here and here.
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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’re just getting started over on 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 videographer Chris Moran’s collection of recordings online at Vimeo, social media editor Justin August’s tumblog at JustinAugust.org, news editor Adam White’s tumblog at AdamWhite.org, news editor Bryne Yancey’s podcast What We Hate, copy editor Jesse Raub’s short fiction webzine Bitter Press, and reviews editor Brian Shultz’ blogs Over Looked and Witness.

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.

In our everprogressing search to abuse the internet in every single way possible, we’ve started the official Punknews Wave! What’s Google Wave? Good question. We’re not quite sure yet but this weekend we gave away a bunch of invites via Twitter (one of the great benefits of following us is weird stuff like that) and we’re taking over GoogleLand.
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Don’t forget to enter the current contests we’re running here at Punknews.org. Here’s what we’re currently giving away

• Win signed copies of Defeater‘s new 2×7″ set Lost Ground
• Win a turntable, merch and more from A Wilhelm Scream
• Win autographed and numbered posters from artist Keith Rosson

If you’re from a label or in a band and have something cool to give away to the Punknews community, by all means get in touch. We’d love to hear from you.
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