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…
The RIAA made news this week by announcing that it will be ending its strategy of suing individual file sharers. Their new tactic in combating file sharing will involve working with ISPs to communicate with and potentially restrict the access of file sharers. NOFX has announced a set of shows to celebrate their 25th anniversary. The shows, which will feature support from Youth Brigade, will feature past members of NOFX rejoining the band to play songs from those periods. The line up for the 2009 Harvest of Hope festival has been announced. The fest, which will run from March 6th to the 8th in St. Augustine, Florida, will feature sets from Against Me!, Propagandhi, Bouncing Souls, Strike Anywhere and Lucero among others. The Thorns of Life, the new band featuring Blake from Jawbreaker and Aaron Cometbus from Crimpshrine, are planning a Bay Area show. The routing for the 2009 Warped Tour has been announced, along with news that Less Than Jake, Ataris, and Alexisonfire are joining the trek. Brian Fallon of the Gaslight Anthem has also announced several upcoming acoustic solo performances on the US East Coast.
A number of upcoming recording projects were discussed this week. The pioneering and still divisive Sex Pistols mused the possibility of a new album. The Smashing Pumpkins have chosen to abandon the album format. T.S.O.L. have begun recording and broadcasting their sessions live. Bomb the Music Industry! gave an update on their next one. Strike Anywhere will have a new record in 2009 as well. AFI is holding a contest to find backup vocalists for their next album. No Doubt have also decided to postpone their previously discussed new one. Fall Out Boy released a record this week and were up to all sorts of activities to promote it. Bad Religion‘s Greg Graffin also discussed his new book Anarchy Evolution.
This week we spoke with Rob Moran of recent Deathwish signing Narrows (interviews). The band features members of Botch, Roy, Some Girls and These Arms Are Snakes. Jonah Matranga and Shaun Lopez of the recently reunited Far (interview) and Tim McIlrath, frontman of Rise Against (interview). As always we brought you new Streaming Music including Poughkeepsie, NY-based The Color Wheels. So what’s coming up this week? Look for tours kicking off from Cro-Mags (US), The Measure (SA) (US), Pulling Teeth (US), and Clutch / Russian Circles (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…
The RIAA made news this week by announcing that it will be ending its strategy of suing individual file sharers. Their new tactic in combating file sharing will involve working with ISPs to communicate with and potentially restrict the access of file sharers. NOFX has announced a set of shows to celebrate their 25th anniversary. The shows, which will feature support from Youth Brigade, will feature past members of NOFX rejoining the band to play songs from those periods. The line up for the 2009 Harvest of Hope festival has been announced. The fest, which will run from March 6th to the 8th in St. Augustine, Florida, will feature sets from Against Me!, Propagandhi, Bouncing Souls, Strike Anywhere and Lucero among others. The Thorns of Life, the new band featuring Blake from Jawbreaker and Aaron Cometbus from Crimpshrine, are planning a Bay Area show. The routing for the 2009 Warped Tour has been announced, along with news that Less Than Jake, Ataris, and Alexisonfire are joining the trek. Brian Fallon of the Gaslight Anthem has also announced several upcoming acoustic solo performances on the US East Coast.
A number of upcoming recording projects were discussed this week. The pioneering and still divisive Sex Pistols mused the possibility of a new album. The Smashing Pumpkins have chosen to abandon the album format. T.S.O.L. have begun recording and broadcasting their sessions live. Bomb the Music Industry! gave an update on their next one. Strike Anywhere will have a new record in 2009 as well. AFI is holding a contest to find backup vocalists for their next album. No Doubt have also decided to postpone their previously discussed new one. Fall Out Boy released a record this week and were up to all sorts of activities to promote it. Bad Religion‘s Greg Graffin also discussed his new book Anarchy Evolution.
This week we spoke with Rob Moran of recent Deathwish signing Narrows (interviews). The band features members of Botch, Roy, Some Girls and These Arms Are Snakes. Jonah Matranga and Shaun Lopez of the recently reunited Far (interview) and Tim McIlrath, frontman of Rise Against (interview). As always we brought you new Streaming Music including Poughkeepsie, NY-based The Color Wheels. So what’s coming up this week? Look for tours kicking off from Cro-Mags (US), The Measure (SA) (US), Pulling Teeth (US), and Clutch / Russian Circles (US).
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