It’s Sunday, December 2nd, 2007. Welcome to Navel Gazing, your look back at this week in Punknews.
The people must have something good to read on a Sunday
While winter creeps in and the industry starts to hibernate we news on next summer’s big events is starting to flow. The 2008 Warped Tour will boast a roster that features Against Me!, the Bronx, The Devil Wears Prada, and Pierce The Veil. Meanwhile Japan’s Punk Spring 2008 will feature the likes of Rancid, Pennywise, Buzzcocks, Me First & The Gimme Gimmes and Angels & Airwaves. We saw a very interesting discussion on the file sharing issue this week, this time getting a larger-indie label perspective from Revelation, Lookout, 31G and Deep Elm. The nation of France weighed in as well, planning to just kick downloaders off the Internet. We had all types of Fall Out Boy high jinks this week, as band poster boy Pete Wentz got angry about a Ashlee Simpson parody and Every Time I Die defended their appearance with the pop stars. UK band the Squids had a US tour cancelled due to some flag-burning imagery on their show flyers.
Anti-Flag revealed some details on their new album The Bright Lights of America and also announced more tour dates. In fact we had lots of tour dates confirmed this week. Defiance, Ohio is heading out to the US West Coast and Australia. Black Fag, the absolutely fabulous tribute to Black Flag, is taking the show to Europe. A Wilhelm Scream‘s upcoming tour will feature Swellers guitarist Nick Diener. Against Me! played a benefit a to raise money for a marrow transplant. The Bouncing Souls plan to thrill fans at their upcoming year-end shows with a 60-song marathon
We were brought news of the death of Arsonists Get All The Girls member Pat Mason (1986-2007). Our condolences go out to his family and friends. Also, Hawthorne Heights has as expected cancelled their tour with Escape the Fate and the AKAs due to the recent death of guitarist Casey Calvert. In other grim news, there’s been a verdict in the trial of the Finally there’s been some a verdict in the trial of the suicidal driver who killed Silkworm drummer Michael Dahlquist, John Glick, guitarist of the Returnables and Doug Meis, drummer of Exo and the Dials. She got 8 years.
We recently featured one of our more interesting interview features in recent memory. Norman Brannon of Texas is the Reason and Shelter, author of The Anti-Matter Anthology: A 1990s Post-Punk & Hardcore Reader, interviews and Rob Fish of 108 in a two part feature looking back at the hardcore scene which spawned the book. You can check out part 1 and part 2. Our Video of the Week featured The Riot Before live at the Fest 6. The nineteenth edition of Vinyl File featured a conversation with Dan Askew of Second Nature Recordings.
Source It’s Sunday, December 2nd, 2007. Welcome to Navel Gazing, your look back at this week in Punknews.
The people must have something good to read on a Sunday
While winter creeps in and the industry starts to hibernate we news on next summer’s big events is starting to flow. The 2008 Warped Tour will boast a roster that features Against Me!, the Bronx, The Devil Wears Prada, and Pierce The Veil. Meanwhile Japan’s Punk Spring 2008 will feature the likes of Rancid, Pennywise, Buzzcocks, Me First & The Gimme Gimmes and Angels & Airwaves. We saw a very interesting discussion on the file sharing issue this week, this time getting a larger-indie label perspective from Revelation, Lookout, 31G and Deep Elm. The nation of France weighed in as well, planning to just kick downloaders off the Internet. We had all types of Fall Out Boy high jinks this week, as band poster boy Pete Wentz got angry about a Ashlee Simpson parody and Every Time I Die defended their appearance with the pop stars. UK band the Squids had a US tour cancelled due to some flag-burning imagery on their show flyers.
Anti-Flag revealed some details on their new album The Bright Lights of America and also announced more tour dates. In fact we had lots of tour dates confirmed this week. Defiance, Ohio is heading out to the US West Coast and Australia. Black Fag, the absolutely fabulous tribute to Black Flag, is taking the show to Europe. A Wilhelm Scream‘s upcoming tour will feature Swellers guitarist Nick Diener. Against Me! played a benefit a to raise money for a marrow transplant. The Bouncing Souls plan to thrill fans at their upcoming year-end shows with a 60-song marathon
We were brought news of the death of Arsonists Get All The Girls member Pat Mason (1986-2007). Our condolences go out to his family and friends. Also, Hawthorne Heights has as expected cancelled their tour with Escape the Fate and the AKAs due to the recent death of guitarist Casey Calvert. In other grim news, there’s been a verdict in the trial of the Finally there’s been some a verdict in the trial of the suicidal driver who killed Silkworm drummer Michael Dahlquist, John Glick, guitarist of the Returnables and Doug Meis, drummer of Exo and the Dials. She got 8 years.
We recently featured one of our more interesting interview features in recent memory. Norman Brannon of Texas is the Reason and Shelter, author of The Anti-Matter Anthology: A 1990s Post-Punk & Hardcore Reader, interviews and Rob Fish of 108 in a two part feature looking back at the hardcore scene which spawned the book. You can check out part 1 and part 2. Our Video of the Week featured The Riot Before live at the Fest 6. The nineteenth edition of Vinyl File featured a conversation with Dan Askew of Second Nature Recordings.
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