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…

This week we celebrated Record Store Day! We had our firend Stevo from 1-2-3-4 Go! Records give us his thoughts on the event, which is now in its second year. Alternative Press spoke with a number of bands about their favourite stores, including the Lawrence Arms, Bouncing Souls, and Dillinger Four. Green Day unveiled Know Your Enemy, the first single from 21st Century Breakdown, as well as the lyrics and track listing for the full album. The band will celebrate the release with a club show at the Bowery Ballroom on May 18th. NOFX posted a new song from Coaster. “Creeping Out Sara” tells the story of Fat Mike meeting one Sara Quinn from Tegan and Sara backstage at a festival in Germany. iTunes’ recent price increases went under the microscope recently, with Billboard reporting a decrease in sales but an increase in revenue for higher priced tracks.

The Grammy Museum has announced plans for a premiere screening of The Warped Tour documentary. The event will feature a discussion with tour head Kevin Lyman, director Jonathan Rach, and members of Fishbone as well as a live performance by the Phenomenauts. Against Me! has plans to has reissue their first seven-inch via Sabot Productions. This summer Dillinger Four will tour throughout the Midwest beginning on June 4th. The upcoming Chaos In Tejas festival will feature bands like Amebix, Cro-Mags, Cock Sparrer, the Business, Propagandhi, the Thermals, Career Suicide and Brutal Knights among others. This week saw a few interesting interviews come to life. Asian Man Records impresario Mike Park spoke about the recent Lawrence Arms represses and more upcoming projects. Mighty Mighty Bosstones singer Dicky Barrett also spoke with Adam Corolla.

Punknews.org is proud to continue publishing road journals from Mike Hale (Gunmoll, In The Red). Having packed up his belongings, moved out of his apartment, and committed himself to living as a touring musician, Mike has some tales to tell. Check out Episode 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and now Episode 8 of For Those Still Standing. Our Dispatches series of band tour blogs featured Joey Cape, Jon Snodgrass and Chad Rex (Episode 3), Comeback Kid (Episode 1, Episode 2).

This week we spoke with Gregg Gillis, best known to the music world under his stage name Girl Talk (interview). Our Video of the Week featured a look at post-hardcore act Make Do and Mend. As always we brought you new Streaming Music including Minneapolis, MN based Photo Finish Records act A Verse Unsung, Cincinnati, OH’s Pomegranates, the new full length from Kensington, CT’s My Heart to Joy, Hotel Bible from Toronto’s Junior Battles, and Doylestown, PA’s War Pigs. So what’s coming up this week? Look for new releases from Earth Crisis, the Breeders, and Westbound Train with tours kicking off from Shot Baker / Serf Combat (UK), Franz Nicolay / Moneybrother (US), Outbreak / Smartbomb (UK), the Specials (UK), Russian Circles / Sweet Cobra / Lichens (US), Joe Lally / Gory Tellers (US / Canada), Mad Sin (US), the HorrorPops (US), NOFX (UK), Shook Ones / Red Tape Parade (UK).
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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…

This week we celebrated Record Store Day! We had our firend Stevo from 1-2-3-4 Go! Records give us his thoughts on the event, which is now in its second year. Alternative Press spoke with a number of bands about their favourite stores, including the Lawrence Arms, Bouncing Souls, and Dillinger Four. Green Day unveiled Know Your Enemy, the first single from 21st Century Breakdown, as well as the lyrics and track listing for the full album. The band will celebrate the release with a club show at the Bowery Ballroom on May 18th. NOFX posted a new song from Coaster. “Creeping Out Sara” tells the story of Fat Mike meeting one Sara Quinn from Tegan and Sara backstage at a festival in Germany. iTunes’ recent price increases went under the microscope recently, with Billboard reporting a decrease in sales but an increase in revenue for higher priced tracks.

The Grammy Museum has announced plans for a premiere screening of The Warped Tour documentary. The event will feature a discussion with tour head Kevin Lyman, director Jonathan Rach, and members of Fishbone as well as a live performance by the Phenomenauts. Against Me! has plans to has reissue their first seven-inch via Sabot Productions. This summer Dillinger Four will tour throughout the Midwest beginning on June 4th. The upcoming Chaos In Tejas festival will feature bands like Amebix, Cro-Mags, Cock Sparrer, the Business, Propagandhi, the Thermals, Career Suicide and Brutal Knights among others. This week saw a few interesting interviews come to life. Asian Man Records impresario Mike Park spoke about the recent Lawrence Arms represses and more upcoming projects. Mighty Mighty Bosstones singer Dicky Barrett also spoke with Adam Corolla.

Punknews.org is proud to continue publishing road journals from Mike Hale (Gunmoll, In The Red). Having packed up his belongings, moved out of his apartment, and committed himself to living as a touring musician, Mike has some tales to tell. Check out Episode 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and now Episode 8 of For Those Still Standing. Our Dispatches series of band tour blogs featured Joey Cape, Jon Snodgrass and Chad Rex (Episode 3), Comeback Kid (Episode 1, Episode 2).

This week we spoke with Gregg Gillis, best known to the music world under his stage name Girl Talk (interview). Our Video of the Week featured a look at post-hardcore act Make Do and Mend. As always we brought you new Streaming Music including Minneapolis, MN based Photo Finish Records act A Verse Unsung, Cincinnati, OH’s Pomegranates, the new full length from Kensington, CT’s My Heart to Joy, Hotel Bible from Toronto’s Junior Battles, and Doylestown, PA’s War Pigs. So what’s coming up this week? Look for new releases from Earth Crisis, the Breeders, and Westbound Train with tours kicking off from Shot Baker / Serf Combat (UK), Franz Nicolay / Moneybrother (US), Outbreak / Smartbomb (UK), the Specials (UK), Russian Circles / Sweet Cobra / Lichens (US), Joe Lally / Gory Tellers (US / Canada), Mad Sin (US), the HorrorPops (US), NOFX (UK), Shook Ones / Red Tape Parade (UK).
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