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…

This week brought us a further progress report on Rancid‘s upcoming album. Epitaph head and Bad Religion guitarist / songwriter Brett Gurewitz has finished mixing the release and it’s set for a spring release. Blink-182‘s road to an inevitable reunion continues, as the three members of the pop-punk act share the stage as Grammy presenters. Winnipeg’s Propagandhi unveiled the new song “Dear Coach’s Corner” this week on BBC Radio 1. In a recent interview Say Anything head Max Bemis commented on his ongoing (and really amusing) tiff with the Punknews.org readership. My Chemical Romance unveiled their video for “Desolation Row”. The popular band produced the Bob Dylan cover for the soundtrack of the upcoming Watchmen film. The band also discussed their upcoming fourth album.

Fat Mike of NOFX discussed the upcoming DVD release of the Backstage Passport series. He also took the opportunity to rip into Avenged Sevenfold for good measure. 311 posted an update on their next record, as did mewithoutYou who confirmed their confirm title and release date. We had news that Have Heart and Polar Bear Club would hit the road soon. The Bamboozle has unveiled their lineup, which will feature Fall Out Boy, No Doubt, Taking Back Sunday and Rise Against. The Deftones will also play the event, notable in light of the car accident that’s sidelined bassist Chi Cheng. Bonnaroo will feature a diverse roster including Bruce Springsteen, the Beastie Boys, the Mars Volta, Nine Inch Nails and Neko Case. This week saw new audio from In The Hollows, featuring former and current members of Champion, Pulling Teeth and Ruiner. We also heard music from Jazzbreaker, a jazz / big band tribute to Jawbreaker. This week saw a number of tributes to Bruce Springsteen, including videos from Ted Leo And The Pharmacists and Brian Fallon of Gaslight Anthem as well as Against Me!‘s Tom Gabel.

This week we said goodbye legendary Cramps frontman Lux Interior (1948-2009).

There’s a new version of Punknews.org coming and we want your help testing it. Keep those bug reports coming in.

Our Dispatches series of band tour blogs featured Alex of Gatorface and Sam from Virgins] (Episode 3). This week we spoke with Greg Attonito of the Bouncing Souls (interview). As always we brought you new Streaming Music including the new album Neon Creeps from Spring, TX-based O Pioneers!!!, and South Wales based Attack! Attack!. So what’s coming up this week? Look for new releases from New Found Glory, O Pioneers!!!, and Napalm Death with tours kicking off from Murder City Devils (US West Coast), Cute Is What We Aim For headlined Take Action Tour, Propagandhi (Australia), Kevin Seconds / Kepi Ghoulie / Vic Ruggiero (US), and Flogging Molly (US / Canada).
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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…

This week brought us a further progress report on Rancid‘s upcoming album. Epitaph head and Bad Religion guitarist / songwriter Brett Gurewitz has finished mixing the release and it’s set for a spring release. Blink-182‘s road to an inevitable reunion continues, as the three members of the pop-punk act share the stage as Grammy presenters. Winnipeg’s Propagandhi unveiled the new song “Dear Coach’s Corner” this week on BBC Radio 1. In a recent interview Say Anything head Max Bemis commented on his ongoing (and really amusing) tiff with the Punknews.org readership. My Chemical Romance unveiled their video for “Desolation Row”. The popular band produced the Bob Dylan cover for the soundtrack of the upcoming Watchmen film. The band also discussed their upcoming fourth album.

Fat Mike of NOFX discussed the upcoming DVD release of the Backstage Passport series. He also took the opportunity to rip into Avenged Sevenfold for good measure. 311 posted an update on their next record, as did mewithoutYou who confirmed their confirm title and release date. We had news that Have Heart and Polar Bear Club would hit the road soon. The Bamboozle has unveiled their lineup, which will feature Fall Out Boy, No Doubt, Taking Back Sunday and Rise Against. The Deftones will also play the event, notable in light of the car accident that’s sidelined bassist Chi Cheng. Bonnaroo will feature a diverse roster including Bruce Springsteen, the Beastie Boys, the Mars Volta, Nine Inch Nails and Neko Case. This week saw new audio from In The Hollows, featuring former and current members of Champion, Pulling Teeth and Ruiner. We also heard music from Jazzbreaker, a jazz / big band tribute to Jawbreaker. This week saw a number of tributes to Bruce Springsteen, including videos from Ted Leo And The Pharmacists and Brian Fallon of Gaslight Anthem as well as Against Me!‘s Tom Gabel.

This week we said goodbye legendary Cramps frontman Lux Interior (1948-2009).

There’s a new version of Punknews.org coming and we want your help testing it. Keep those bug reports coming in.

Our Dispatches series of band tour blogs featured Alex of Gatorface and Sam from Virgins] (Episode 3). This week we spoke with Greg Attonito of the Bouncing Souls (interview). As always we brought you new Streaming Music including the new album Neon Creeps from Spring, TX-based O Pioneers!!!, and South Wales based Attack! Attack!. So what’s coming up this week? Look for new releases from New Found Glory, O Pioneers!!!, and Napalm Death with tours kicking off from Murder City Devils (US West Coast), Cute Is What We Aim For headlined Take Action Tour, Propagandhi (Australia), Kevin Seconds / Kepi Ghoulie / Vic Ruggiero (US), and Flogging Molly (US / Canada).
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