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…

Former Dead Kennedys frontman and Alternative Tentacles head honcho Jello Biafra has written a lengthy and thought provoking letter to President-Elect Barak Obama. Mike Ness has discussed plans for the next Social Distortion record, the follow up to 2004’s Sex, Love and Rock ‚Äôn‚Äô Roll Next year’s festivals were the big topic this week. Kevin Lyman unveiled that Warped 2009 will shoot for longer sets and less stages with performances by Anti-Flag, Bad Religion, Big D and the Kids Table, the Bouncing Souls, NOFX and Thrice among others. Miami, Florida’s Langerado Festival will hit in March and feature Flogging Molly, Bad Brains, Against Me!, Gaslight Anthem, and the Aggrolites. Bamboozle 2009 meanwhile added bands like Third Eye Blind, Forgive Durden and Before Their Eyes.

This week mainstream pop punks Fall Out Boy streamed their new full length Folie a Deux. Brody Dalle’s post-Distillers vehicle Spinnerette unveiled “Ghetto Love.” Flogging Molly announced dates for their 2009 Green 17 tour. Avenged Sevenfold will tour with bands like Buckcherry and Papa Roach. Pop punks the Dopamines will soon hit the road. Escape The Fate will soon tour with Attack Attack, William Control of Aiden and Burn Halo. As for videos this week saw Metallica post “All Nightmare Long” and the Gaslight Anthem play “The ’59 Sound” live on Conan. This week we said goodbye to Last Lights’ member Dominic Mallory (1984-2008) and pin-up model, fashion staple and counter-cultural icon Bettie Page (1923-2008).

This week we spoke with Jonah Matranga and Shaun Lopez of the recently reunited Far (interview) and Tim McIlrath, frontman of Rise Against (interview). Our Video of the Week featured Minnesota’s Off With Their Heads performing live in Richmond, VA. As always we brought you new Streaming Music including the new release from Belgium’s Daggers, and the new full length from San Diego, CA-based Lanterns. So what’s coming up this week? Look for All-American Rejects and Fall Out Boy with tours kicking off from the Night Marchers (US) and Cancer Bats / Polar Bear Club / Holly Springs Disaster (Canada / Quebec).
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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…

Former Dead Kennedys frontman and Alternative Tentacles head honcho Jello Biafra has written a lengthy and thought provoking letter to President-Elect Barak Obama. Mike Ness has discussed plans for the next Social Distortion record, the follow up to 2004’s Sex, Love and Rock ‚Äôn‚Äô Roll Next year’s festivals were the big topic this week. Kevin Lyman unveiled that Warped 2009 will shoot for longer sets and less stages with performances by Anti-Flag, Bad Religion, Big D and the Kids Table, the Bouncing Souls, NOFX and Thrice among others. Miami, Florida’s Langerado Festival will hit in March and feature Flogging Molly, Bad Brains, Against Me!, Gaslight Anthem, and the Aggrolites. Bamboozle 2009 meanwhile added bands like Third Eye Blind, Forgive Durden and Before Their Eyes.

This week mainstream pop punks Fall Out Boy streamed their new full length Folie a Deux. Brody Dalle’s post-Distillers vehicle Spinnerette unveiled “Ghetto Love.” Flogging Molly announced dates for their 2009 Green 17 tour. Avenged Sevenfold will tour with bands like Buckcherry and Papa Roach. Pop punks the Dopamines will soon hit the road. Escape The Fate will soon tour with Attack Attack, William Control of Aiden and Burn Halo. As for videos this week saw Metallica post “All Nightmare Long” and the Gaslight Anthem play “The ’59 Sound” live on Conan. This week we said goodbye to Last Lights’ member Dominic Mallory (1984-2008) and pin-up model, fashion staple and counter-cultural icon Bettie Page (1923-2008).

This week we spoke with Jonah Matranga and Shaun Lopez of the recently reunited Far (interview) and Tim McIlrath, frontman of Rise Against (interview). Our Video of the Week featured Minnesota’s Off With Their Heads performing live in Richmond, VA. As always we brought you new Streaming Music including the new release from Belgium’s Daggers, and the new full length from San Diego, CA-based Lanterns. So what’s coming up this week? Look for All-American Rejects and Fall Out Boy with tours kicking off from the Night Marchers (US) and Cancer Bats / Polar Bear Club / Holly Springs Disaster (Canada / Quebec).
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