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 the Alkaline Trio announced that they’d reunite with longtime producer Matt Allison to record their upcomin self-released album. Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters has launched a new band dubbed Them Crooked Vultures. The act also features Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age and John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin. The Swellers managed to accidently share a split 7″ with Metallica. A mix up at the pressing plant resulted in a pairing of a new Swellers song with Metallica’s live cover of Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man.” Youth Brigade expanded their upcoming tour plans and further detailed the hotly anticipated “Let Them Know” boxed set. The set will feature the DVD documentary on the band and BYO Records, a coffee table book, and an LP featuring covers of BYO tracks by NOFX, the Dropkick Murphys, Pennywise, the Briefs and many others.

Brian Fallon of the Gaslight Anthem dismissed rumours of an upcoming solo record, stating that the band will instead get to work on their next LP. Brand New detailed their upcoming full length Daisy and unveiled the cover art and track listing. The Sidekicks revealed details on their upcoming Red Scare full length Weight of Air, due this September. Jon Snodgrass also set expectations on the next Drag The River album, stating that nothing would be available until 2010 or 2011. Pearl Jam announced that Bad Religion, and Ted Leo and The Pharmacists would server as their August tour support. The Lawrence Arms‘ Neil Hennessy joined the Copyrights for the ongoing Red Scare Tour. ALL will get back together for a one-off show this October in Portland, Oregon. This week Teenage Bottlerocket previewed “Skate or Die,” Thrice posted a stream of their new full length Beggars and Eulogy Records launched a free sampler. On the visual side of things, Bomb The Music Industry! unveiled their video for “Wednesday Night Drinkball” while Broadway Calls posted “Be All You Can’t Be.”

This week we said goodbye to singer-songwriter and frontman of Mink DeVille, Willy DeVille (1950-2009).

Dear Landlord and Shook Ones topped the list of Your Favorite Records from July. This week we spoke with Andy ‚ÄúFalco‚Äù Falkous of Future of the Left (interview), Dave McWane of Big D and the Kids Table (interview), Scott Freeman of Shook Ones (interview), and Pat Schramm of Bridge and Tunnel (interview). This week we also previewed a receipe from Ben Conoley’s upcoming punk rock cookbook Food Not Songs In this edition Brett Adams, vocalist/guitarist for The Riot Before, instructs you in preparing his Carnitas Burritos with Roasted Pablano and Tomatillo Salsa.

As always we brought you new streaming music from some great up and coming bands, including the new 7 inch from Long Island’s This Is Hell, and the new split between Adam’s Dagger and Scars and Stripes.

So what’s coming up this week? Look for new releases from Balance and Composure, Cobra Starship, Protest The Hero, and Thrice with tours kicking off from Guttermouth (US), the Get Up Kids (US / UK), Git Some (US), and My Heart to Joy (US).

Click Read More to check out our ongoing contests, new streaming music, social networking links and more.
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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 the Alkaline Trio announced that they’d reunite with longtime producer Matt Allison to record their upcomin self-released album. Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters has launched a new band dubbed Them Crooked Vultures. The act also features Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age and John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin. The Swellers managed to accidently share a split 7″ with Metallica. A mix up at the pressing plant resulted in a pairing of a new Swellers song with Metallica’s live cover of Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man.” Youth Brigade expanded their upcoming tour plans and further detailed the hotly anticipated “Let Them Know” boxed set. The set will feature the DVD documentary on the band and BYO Records, a coffee table book, and an LP featuring covers of BYO tracks by NOFX, the Dropkick Murphys, Pennywise, the Briefs and many others.

Brian Fallon of the Gaslight Anthem dismissed rumours of an upcoming solo record, stating that the band will instead get to work on their next LP. Brand New detailed their upcoming full length Daisy and unveiled the cover art and track listing. The Sidekicks revealed details on their upcoming Red Scare full length Weight of Air, due this September. Jon Snodgrass also set expectations on the next Drag The River album, stating that nothing would be available until 2010 or 2011. Pearl Jam announced that Bad Religion, and Ted Leo and The Pharmacists would server as their August tour support. The Lawrence Arms‘ Neil Hennessy joined the Copyrights for the ongoing Red Scare Tour. ALL will get back together for a one-off show this October in Portland, Oregon. This week Teenage Bottlerocket previewed “Skate or Die,” Thrice posted a stream of their new full length Beggars and Eulogy Records launched a free sampler. On the visual side of things, Bomb The Music Industry! unveiled their video for “Wednesday Night Drinkball” while Broadway Calls posted “Be All You Can’t Be.”

This week we said goodbye to singer-songwriter and frontman of Mink DeVille, Willy DeVille (1950-2009).

Dear Landlord and Shook Ones topped the list of Your Favorite Records from July. This week we spoke with Andy ‚ÄúFalco‚Äù Falkous of Future of the Left (interview), Dave McWane of Big D and the Kids Table (interview), Scott Freeman of Shook Ones (interview), and Pat Schramm of Bridge and Tunnel (interview). This week we also previewed a receipe from Ben Conoley’s upcoming punk rock cookbook Food Not Songs In this edition Brett Adams, vocalist/guitarist for The Riot Before, instructs you in preparing his Carnitas Burritos with Roasted Pablano and Tomatillo Salsa.

As always we brought you new streaming music from some great up and coming bands, including the new 7 inch from Long Island’s This Is Hell, and the new split between Adam’s Dagger and Scars and Stripes.

So what’s coming up this week? Look for new releases from Balance and Composure, Cobra Starship, Protest The Hero, and Thrice with tours kicking off from Guttermouth (US), the Get Up Kids (US / UK), Git Some (US), and My Heart to Joy (US).

Click Read More to check out our ongoing contests, new streaming music, social networking links and more.
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