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…
Our attention turned to the mainstream pop punk world this week. The long coming reunion of Blink-182 is most certainly happening. The band is planning a summer album and will doubtlessly be back on the road soon. Tom Delonge has also confirmed that his post-Blink act Angels and Airwaves will continue as well. Green Day broke the news that their new record would be titled 21st Century Breakdown. The band unveiled the art and began discussing the record, making several bold statements to Rolling Stone on the album’s ambitious direction. Outside the spotlight but no less newsworthy `round here, Punknews favourites Teenage Bottlerocket announced that they had signed to Fat Wreck.
This week also the Lower Class Brats comment on a shooting at a recent show in San Antonio, TX. Propagandhi has offered two advance songs from their new record in exchange for charitable donations. Revelaton Records is working on an anniversary compilation featurin bands like Sick of It All, Terror, Ignite, and Death By Stereo. Mirroring a recent April Fools joke we made, the Gaslight Anthem will be opening for their hero Bruce Springsteen at the UK’s Hard Rock Calling 2009. Pennywise and Pepper will also hit the road together. This busy week also saw the breakup of Verse, the pending bankruptcy of Sirius XM satellite radio, and our buddy Fat Mike of NOFX visit Pancake Mountain.
Our Dispatches series of band tour blogs featured Fake Problems (Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3), Bomb The Music Industry (Episode 5, Episode 6), and the Bouncing Souls (Episode 1). This week we spoke with Chris Hannah of Propagandhi (interview). As always we brought you new Streaming Music including the new full length from Chris Wollard and The Ship Thieves (Chris of course having played in Hot Water Music and the Draft), and the new EP from Tom’s River, NJ-based One Win Choice. So what’s coming up this week? Look for new releases from And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, the Appleseed Cast, Chris Wollard and The Ship Thieves, Fake Problems, Morrissey, and Thursday with tours kicking off from Dropkick Murphys / H2O (US), These Arms Are Snakes (US), and Pennywise (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…
Our attention turned to the mainstream pop punk world this week. The long coming reunion of Blink-182 is most certainly happening. The band is planning a summer album and will doubtlessly be back on the road soon. Tom Delonge has also confirmed that his post-Blink act Angels and Airwaves will continue as well. Green Day broke the news that their new record would be titled 21st Century Breakdown. The band unveiled the art and began discussing the record, making several bold statements to Rolling Stone on the album’s ambitious direction. Outside the spotlight but no less newsworthy `round here, Punknews favourites Teenage Bottlerocket announced that they had signed to Fat Wreck.
This week also the Lower Class Brats comment on a shooting at a recent show in San Antonio, TX. Propagandhi has offered two advance songs from their new record in exchange for charitable donations. Revelaton Records is working on an anniversary compilation featurin bands like Sick of It All, Terror, Ignite, and Death By Stereo. Mirroring a recent April Fools joke we made, the Gaslight Anthem will be opening for their hero Bruce Springsteen at the UK’s Hard Rock Calling 2009. Pennywise and Pepper will also hit the road together. This busy week also saw the breakup of Verse, the pending bankruptcy of Sirius XM satellite radio, and our buddy Fat Mike of NOFX visit Pancake Mountain.
Our Dispatches series of band tour blogs featured Fake Problems (Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3), Bomb The Music Industry (Episode 5, Episode 6), and the Bouncing Souls (Episode 1). This week we spoke with Chris Hannah of Propagandhi (interview). As always we brought you new Streaming Music including the new full length from Chris Wollard and The Ship Thieves (Chris of course having played in Hot Water Music and the Draft), and the new EP from Tom’s River, NJ-based One Win Choice. So what’s coming up this week? Look for new releases from And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, the Appleseed Cast, Chris Wollard and The Ship Thieves, Fake Problems, Morrissey, and Thursday with tours kicking off from Dropkick Murphys / H2O (US), These Arms Are Snakes (US), and Pennywise (US).
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