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…
2009’s underway and the music industry’s slowly returning from their holiday dormancy. This week saw two big singings, with Polar Bear Club hooking up with Bridge 9 and Broadway Calls moving to SideOneDummy. On the flip side of that it looks like influental melodic hardcore act Lifetime has left Fueled By Ramen. Also returning is the custom song store that Say Anything‘s Max Bemis controversially launched last year. There was more talk from the Blink-182 camp, with Mark Hoppus discussing the possibility of a reunion and his relationship with Tom Delonge. Victory and Epitaph Records sat at the top of a recently published independent label chart, while Anthony Raneri of Bayside kicked back at the reasoning behind recent “Biggest Flops of 2008” lists.
This week New Found Glory detailed their Epitaph debut, posting a single and planning a vinyl release on Bridge 9. T.S.O.L. meanwhile put an entire new album up for free download. Smoke Or Fire is planning to record and tour with NOFX soon. In other show news, Dillinger Four is making a long overdue visit to Fargo. Street Dogs are headed out with the Swingin’ Utters and Shot Baker. The Menzingers also announced upcoming tour dates. The Economist’s new spinoff magazine, More Intelligent Life, also ran a lengthy article about the reemergence of touring as the most crucial part of a band’s career. Finally, Hunter Burgan of AFI was named the “Vegan Ambassador” for Macbeth Shoes, making him one of the most powerful men in the western world.
This week we spoke with Brandon Rainer and Dan O’Day from the River City Rebels, who are on the road supporting their new album (interview). Suburban Home Records’ head Virgil Dickerson also reponded to the “Vinyl Bubble” editorial by Punknews editor Justin August. As always we brought you new Streaming Music including Oakland, CA’s Nobunny and their full length Love Visions, Nashville, TN’s Engineer Records act Sound and Shape, and I Am Love, the new full length from Washington, DC based Days. So what’s coming up this week? Look for new releases from Blueline Medic, Franz Nicolay of the Hold Steady / World Inferno Friendship Society, and many others with tours kicking off from No Use For A Name / Useless ID (Europe / Isreal), Comeback Kid / Carpathian / Verse (Australia), As I Lay Dying / Protest the Hero / the Human Abstract (USA), and All That Remains / the Haunted (Europe)
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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…
2009’s underway and the music industry’s slowly returning from their holiday dormancy. This week saw two big singings, with Polar Bear Club hooking up with Bridge 9 and Broadway Calls moving to SideOneDummy. On the flip side of that it looks like influental melodic hardcore act Lifetime has left Fueled By Ramen. Also returning is the custom song store that Say Anything‘s Max Bemis controversially launched last year. There was more talk from the Blink-182 camp, with Mark Hoppus discussing the possibility of a reunion and his relationship with Tom Delonge. Victory and Epitaph Records sat at the top of a recently published independent label chart, while Anthony Raneri of Bayside kicked back at the reasoning behind recent “Biggest Flops of 2008” lists.
This week New Found Glory detailed their Epitaph debut, posting a single and planning a vinyl release on Bridge 9. T.S.O.L. meanwhile put an entire new album up for free download. Smoke Or Fire is planning to record and tour with NOFX soon. In other show news, Dillinger Four is making a long overdue visit to Fargo. Street Dogs are headed out with the Swingin’ Utters and Shot Baker. The Menzingers also announced upcoming tour dates. The Economist’s new spinoff magazine, More Intelligent Life, also ran a lengthy article about the reemergence of touring as the most crucial part of a band’s career. Finally, Hunter Burgan of AFI was named the “Vegan Ambassador” for Macbeth Shoes, making him one of the most powerful men in the western world.
This week we spoke with Brandon Rainer and Dan O’Day from the River City Rebels, who are on the road supporting their new album (interview). Suburban Home Records’ head Virgil Dickerson also reponded to the “Vinyl Bubble” editorial by Punknews editor Justin August. As always we brought you new Streaming Music including Oakland, CA’s Nobunny and their full length Love Visions, Nashville, TN’s Engineer Records act Sound and Shape, and I Am Love, the new full length from Washington, DC based Days. So what’s coming up this week? Look for new releases from Blueline Medic, Franz Nicolay of the Hold Steady / World Inferno Friendship Society, and many others with tours kicking off from No Use For A Name / Useless ID (Europe / Isreal), Comeback Kid / Carpathian / Verse (Australia), As I Lay Dying / Protest the Hero / the Human Abstract (USA), and All That Remains / the Haunted (Europe)
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