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:

• The lineup to The Fest 9 broke. Look for the annual gathering to feature Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, The Suicide Machines, Frank Turner, Leatherface, Strike Anywhere, Teenage Bottlerocket and many others.
• Popular (I assume?) crunkcore act Brokencyde responded to fake allegations of various despicable activity (not related to their sound).
• The Gaslight Anthem are taking Fake Problems and The Menzingers out on what may be the most Punknews-reader friendly tour ever.
• The resurrected and slightly renamed alt-ska-dub-rock-etc act Sublime with Rome are set to
• Grammatically challenged Epitaph band I Am Ghost called it a career after six years.
• Solo artist Lights released a cover of Rancid‘s “Fall Back Down.” I’m still waiting for someone notable to crack out a really badass cover of “Black Lung.”
• Tom DeLonge’s Angels & Airwaves have completed Love: The Movie, which documents the band’s trip to see the Beatles-themed Cirque du Soleil production.

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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A full-page ad in the latest issue of Razorcake has revealed the bulk of the lineup for this year’s Fest in Gainesville, FL. Happening October 29-31, the weekend will be headlined by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes and The Suicide Machines, along with scheduled performances from Torche, Frank Turner, Leatherface, Smoke or Fire, A Wilhelm Scream, Cobra Skulls, Strike Anywhere, Kylesa, Dead to Me, Teenage Bottlerocket, Heartsounds, Tim Barry, Toys That Kill, and several others.

A scan of the ad can be found here. It’s important to note that due to the early nature of this ad, the lineup is subject to change; the folks behind the Fest are expected to launch their full website and begin selling tickets very soon.
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forgetters, the latest project from Blake Schwarzenbach (Jawbreaker, Jets to Brazil) and original Against Me! drummer Kevin Mahon, will soon be releasing their first studio material in the form of a self-titled, double 7″.

The two-record set is slated for a September 21, 2010 release through the band’s own label, dubbed Too Small to Fail Records. Samples of the four tracks can be streamed at this page. It’s also available for pre-order over at Vinyl Collective.
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Beasts of No Nation have debuted three new songs. The band is a new punk/hardcore outfit which features Mike Schleibaum of Darkest Hour, Jason Yawn of Trial By Fire, Kevin Lamiell of Majority Rule and Trial By Fire, and Andrew Black of The Explosion. The band is currently wrapping up work on their self-produced debut full length. They will play their inaugural show Thursday: August 26th, 2010 at DC9 in Washington DC with Domino Team and SEAS.

Check out the songs on their MySpace page.
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Our stream today comes from Chicago, IL’s Hawkbit. We’ve got a stream of the band’s new 10″, Ground.

You can check it out on their Punknews.org page.
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Gogol Bordello have posted the new video for “Pala Tute.” The track comes from their latest album, Trans-Continental Hustle.

Check it out here.
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Fucked Up have posted a stream of the A-side to their next long-form 12-inch single, “Year of the Ox.” Due out September 28, 2010, the album is the latest in the band’s series which also includes Year of the Dog, Year of the Pig and Year of the Rat. The song is a 13-minute piece featuring a string section and vocalist Zola Jesus which Matador Records described as a “majestic orchestral piece.”

Check it out here.
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Boston’s Have Nots have unveiled a video for “Poisoned Antidote,” a track from the band’s 2008 full-length Serf City USA, which was digitally reissued for free download by Paper and Plastick earlier this year.

The band is currently touring down to Nashville, TN where they’ll be recording some new material with producer Matt Drastic.
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Pennywise and Riverboat Gamblers will be touring Canada together in September.

The Gamblers continue to support 2009’s Underneath the Owl, while Pennywise last released Reason to Believe in 2008, which would end up being their last recorded output with former vocalist Jim Lindberg. Ignite frontman Zoli Teglas replaced Lindberg back in February, who recently resurfaced with a new project dubbed The Black Pacific.
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Hellmouth (ex-The Suicide Machines) have posted a song from their new split with Explode and Make Up for Underground Communiqué. The release is the band’s first since their debut full-length for Ferret, 2009’s Destroy Everything. Worship Nothing.

Check out “Tragedy of a City” at the band’s MySpace page.
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Though the official festival lineup isn’t scheduled to be released until next month, reunited hardcore pioneers Snapcase have confirmed that they’ll be performing at this year’s Fun Fun Fun Fest, happening November 6 and 7 in Austin, TX.

The influential band reunited earlier this year for a hometown show in Buffalo, NY as well as a European tour. They’re also scheduled to perform at this year’s Riot Fest, happening October 6-10 in Chicago, IL.
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Bigwig have posted another rare track. The new song is the band’s cover of Nirvana‘s “Sliver.” The band explained:

This is a cover we recorded years ago. It was recorded in a small PA basement for a “Nirvana tribute compilation” released in 2004…..It will be included in a “covers” EP (no release date yet) including every song Bigwig has covered and recorded.

Check out the cover on their MySpace page.
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