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…

Hoo boy. So LA pop-punk act Say Anything announced that for a cool 150 bones frontman Max Bemis would write and record an acoustic song based on the payee’s provided subject matter. The band sold these services for three days or so before demand apparently overwhelmed them and the offer was temporarily pulled. Some plucky, irreverent and often mind-bogglingly insulting Punknews commenters let the band know what they thought of the idea (as they do when any band announces anything round here), and Mr. Bemis pretty much wigged out. I believe he called the collective Punknews community “strange, slow, old people.” Now in the days since we’ve had the Swellers come out and offer the same service for free, and several bloggers chew over the subject of for-pay songwriting and the frontman’s little tirade [1] [2] [3]. Welcome to the internet Max.

In non self-referrential news, we had word that founding Dead Kennedys bassist Klaus Flouride was leaving the band due to a reoccuring medical condition. Rage Against The Machine is up to their old tricks, with a show planned to coincide with the Republican National Convention. Former Escape The Fate singer Ronnie Radke was sentenced to four years in jail on a battery charge in Las Vegas. Riverside, CA ska/punk act Assorted Jellybeans are back together, although their future plans are unrevealed.

We had word that Tiger Army and Rise Against will appear on the compilation Nightmare Revisited. Vampire Weekend and Devo songwriter Mark Mothersbaugh will collaborate on the new Michael Cera film. Popular act Paramore is writing and plans studio time in January. The Lemonheads are planing to cover acts as diverse as GG Allin, Wire, Leonard Cohen and Christina Aguilera on their new album. This week had tour dates from Against Me! featuring Ted Leo and the Pharmacists and Future Of The Left. The Bouncing Souls added dates with Strike Anywhere and Youth Brigade. Weezer will also hit the road soon with Angels and Airwaves. This week brought new music from Lagwagon with the song “Memoirs and Landmines” as well as Less Than Jake‘s video for “Does The Lion City Still Roar?.”

Also, this week Punknews.org passed the milestone of posting 30,000 stories. In the 8 years, 10 months and 4 days that we’ve been online that averages out to a little more than 9 stories per day.

This week we summed up all your album ratings and presented the list of your favourite albums from July. Keep clicking those star ratings to let us know what music you’re enjoying. Our Video of the Week featured Rob Huddleston, frontman for Ann Beretta and Foundation, interviewing members of Hot Water Music about their recent reunion. This is the first in a multi-part video feature. This week also brought new Streaming Music from, Static Radio NJ‘s new full length An Evening of Bad Decisions, Think Fast! Records act No Harm Done, the new album from Gainesville, FL-based Anchor Arms, Shot Baker‘s full length Take Control, and two new songs from Nashville, TN’s Cactus’s.

So what’s coming up this week? Look for releases from Anchor Arms, and Wolves and Thieves / Bastards Of Young with tours kicking off from Teenage Bottlerocket, the Sidekicks and the Riptides (Canada), Have Heart, Verse, Shipwreck AD (Europe) and Killing The Dream (USA).
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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…

Hoo boy. So LA pop-punk act Say Anything announced that for a cool 150 bones frontman Max Bemis would write and record an acoustic song based on the payee’s provided subject matter. The band sold these services for three days or so before demand apparently overwhelmed them and the offer was temporarily pulled. Some plucky, irreverent and often mind-bogglingly insulting Punknews commenters let the band know what they thought of the idea (as they do when any band announces anything round here), and Mr. Bemis pretty much wigged out. I believe he called the collective Punknews community “strange, slow, old people.” Now in the days since we’ve had the Swellers come out and offer the same service for free, and several bloggers chew over the subject of for-pay songwriting and the frontman’s little tirade [1] [2] [3]. Welcome to the internet Max.

In non self-referrential news, we had word that founding Dead Kennedys bassist Klaus Flouride was leaving the band due to a reoccuring medical condition. Rage Against The Machine is up to their old tricks, with a show planned to coincide with the Republican National Convention. Former Escape The Fate singer Ronnie Radke was sentenced to four years in jail on a battery charge in Las Vegas. Riverside, CA ska/punk act Assorted Jellybeans are back together, although their future plans are unrevealed.

We had word that Tiger Army and Rise Against will appear on the compilation Nightmare Revisited. Vampire Weekend and Devo songwriter Mark Mothersbaugh will collaborate on the new Michael Cera film. Popular act Paramore is writing and plans studio time in January. The Lemonheads are planing to cover acts as diverse as GG Allin, Wire, Leonard Cohen and Christina Aguilera on their new album. This week had tour dates from Against Me! featuring Ted Leo and the Pharmacists and Future Of The Left. The Bouncing Souls added dates with Strike Anywhere and Youth Brigade. Weezer will also hit the road soon with Angels and Airwaves. This week brought new music from Lagwagon with the song “Memoirs and Landmines” as well as Less Than Jake‘s video for “Does The Lion City Still Roar?.”

Also, this week Punknews.org passed the milestone of posting 30,000 stories. In the 8 years, 10 months and 4 days that we’ve been online that averages out to a little more than 9 stories per day.

This week we summed up all your album ratings and presented the list of your favourite albums from July. Keep clicking those star ratings to let us know what music you’re enjoying. Our Video of the Week featured Rob Huddleston, frontman for Ann Beretta and Foundation, interviewing members of Hot Water Music about their recent reunion. This is the first in a multi-part video feature. This week also brought new Streaming Music from, Static Radio NJ‘s new full length An Evening of Bad Decisions, Think Fast! Records act No Harm Done, the new album from Gainesville, FL-based Anchor Arms, Shot Baker‘s full length Take Control, and two new songs from Nashville, TN’s Cactus’s.

So what’s coming up this week? Look for releases from Anchor Arms, and Wolves and Thieves / Bastards Of Young with tours kicking off from Teenage Bottlerocket, the Sidekicks and the Riptides (Canada), Have Heart, Verse, Shipwreck AD (Europe) and Killing The Dream (USA).
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