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 strange, slow, old people in the community talking…
NOFX seems to have landed themselves a pretty high profile gig, as the veteran punk act will perform their classic Punk In Drublic at the Democratic National Convention. The band’s announcement was quickly overtaken by their labelmates Dillinger Four, who appear to have an actual non-fictional release date set for their new record. This is for real this time, the last one was just an April Fools joke on our part. Speaking of which, a joke we made about the Gaslight Anthem that same day somehow ended up in the New York Times this week. It looks like the long running Dead Kennedys conflict is dwindling down to a close, as the Jello-less band has announced an indefinite touring hiatus. Like any DK article it got quite the reaction among the Punknews community. What else had you talking? How about the Hold Steady‘s guitarist criticizing Radiohead or Bad Religion‘s Greg Graffin discussing his professorship. Of course it was hard not to react when the RIAA shut down the very neat mixtape sharing site Muxtape.com and CNN publicly mused that Guitar Hero is saving rock ‘n’ roll. Revisiting last week’s big story, we saw a response from 30 Seconds to Mars on the 30 million dollar lawsuit they’ve been stuck with.
There was lots of new music in the works this week. The ever popular Brand New are set to record a new full length soon. Epitaph Records announced the signing of indie rock act Settle. Underoath detailed their upcoming Lost In The Sound Of Separation, while Iron Chic (Latterman, Agent, Small Arms Dealer) talked two upcoming releases. We heard new audio from Rise Against with their new single “ReEducation (through Labor)”, and HR of Bad Brains who previewed tracks from his new href=”http://www.punknews.org/article/30178″>solo outing. On the touring front we saw dates for the Aquabats and Suburban Legends. Alkaline Trio also posted a video of the band performing “Wake up Exhausted” by Tegan and Sara.
This week we also said goodbye to producer Jerry Finn (1970-2008). Our condolences go out to his family and friends.
This week we spoke with Jason Shevchuk, Colin McGinniss, Paul Delaney and Jared Shavelson of None More Black (interview), Kyle Johnson of Misery Signals (interview) and (via podcast) had a chat with Lemuria (interview). This week’s edition of Vinyl File featured a look at upcoming releases. As always we brought you new Streaming Music including, the new record from Leeds, UK-based Forward Russia, the split between the East Bay’s Wolves & Thieves and Sacramento’s Bastards of Young, the brand new record from Suicide Note, California melodic punk/hardcore band Radio Suicide, Pygmy Lush, which features members of City Of Caterpillar, Majority Rule, malady and pg.99. So what’s coming up this week? Look for releases from Motörhead, the Creepshow, and Valencia with tours kicking off from Bad Relgion (Europe, Canada, US).
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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 strange, slow, old people in the community talking…
NOFX seems to have landed themselves a pretty high profile gig, as the veteran punk act will perform their classic Punk In Drublic at the Democratic National Convention. The band’s announcement was quickly overtaken by their labelmates Dillinger Four, who appear to have an actual non-fictional release date set for their new record. This is for real this time, the last one was just an April Fools joke on our part. Speaking of which, a joke we made about the Gaslight Anthem that same day somehow ended up in the New York Times this week. It looks like the long running Dead Kennedys conflict is dwindling down to a close, as the Jello-less band has announced an indefinite touring hiatus. Like any DK article it got quite the reaction among the Punknews community. What else had you talking? How about the Hold Steady‘s guitarist criticizing Radiohead or Bad Religion‘s Greg Graffin discussing his professorship. Of course it was hard not to react when the RIAA shut down the very neat mixtape sharing site Muxtape.com and CNN publicly mused that Guitar Hero is saving rock ‘n’ roll. Revisiting last week’s big story, we saw a response from 30 Seconds to Mars on the 30 million dollar lawsuit they’ve been stuck with.
There was lots of new music in the works this week. The ever popular Brand New are set to record a new full length soon. Epitaph Records announced the signing of indie rock act Settle. Underoath detailed their upcoming Lost In The Sound Of Separation, while Iron Chic (Latterman, Agent, Small Arms Dealer) talked two upcoming releases. We heard new audio from Rise Against with their new single “ReEducation (through Labor)”, and HR of Bad Brains who previewed tracks from his new href=”http://www.punknews.org/article/30178″>solo outing. On the touring front we saw dates for the Aquabats and Suburban Legends. Alkaline Trio also posted a video of the band performing “Wake up Exhausted” by Tegan and Sara.
This week we also said goodbye to producer Jerry Finn (1970-2008). Our condolences go out to his family and friends.
This week we spoke with Jason Shevchuk, Colin McGinniss, Paul Delaney and Jared Shavelson of None More Black (interview), Kyle Johnson of Misery Signals (interview) and (via podcast) had a chat with Lemuria (interview). This week’s edition of Vinyl File featured a look at upcoming releases. As always we brought you new Streaming Music including, the new record from Leeds, UK-based Forward Russia, the split between the East Bay’s Wolves & Thieves and Sacramento’s Bastards of Young, the brand new record from Suicide Note, California melodic punk/hardcore band Radio Suicide, Pygmy Lush, which features members of City Of Caterpillar, Majority Rule, malady and pg.99. So what’s coming up this week? Look for releases from Motörhead, the Creepshow, and Valencia with tours kicking off from Bad Relgion (Europe, Canada, US).
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