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 community talking this week…

This week Against Me! unveiled that George Rebelo of Hot Water Music has joined the band as their new drummer. Rebelo replaces the recently departed Warren Oakes, who left the band after a number of years to, at least in part, focus on his new Mexican restaurant. Blink-182‘s high profile reunion continues to roll along. Tom Delonge discussed the Rush and Pink Floyd inspired new song that they plan to unveil on tour, along with a free film and album from his other project Angels and Airwaves titled Love. Anti-Flag protest California’s Proposition 8 with a new 7-inch EP on Fat Wreck Chords. The band will also be joined by Alexisonfire as co-headliners on the forthcoming Eastpak Antidote Tour. With the start of this year’s Warped Tour imminent there’s lots of news from that camp. Popular video game Rock Band is promising the release of Warped-themed track packs, while NOFX is set to be featured on the upcoming Warped Tour comp with an unreleased song. In other festival news the lineup for Riot Fest has been expanded to feature Butthole Surfers, New Bomb Turks, Off With Their Heads, 88 Fingers Louie, and Pegboy.

Many bands are hard at work on new records. Face To Face is writing and plans to hit the studio in July. Cobra Skulls detailed the art and track listing for the July release of American Rubicon. The Lawrence Arms will enter the studio soon to record a new 7″. Moneen‘s next will be The World I Want to Leave Behind and will arrive on September 15th. Polar Bear Club detailed their upcoming Chasing Hamburg. Finally Glassjaw looks to have completed their new EP. The Mad Caddies have tour dates set for California and Europe soon. Naked Raygun, Paint It Black and Shot Baker will tour together this September. Rx Bandits posted a new song from their forthcoming record Mandala titled “Hope Is A Butterfly, Not Net Its Captor.” Set Your Goals unveiled the track “Gaia Bleeds” from their Epitaph debut, featuring Jon Gula of Turmoil. This week brought us video footage of the Gaslight Anthem performing “Live on the Interface” as well as Rancid on the Tonight Show playing “Last One To Die.”

Punknews.org will be represented this year at the 2009 San Francisco AIDS Walk on July 19th. The current team features Punknews readers, staff from Fat Wreck Chords and our pal Mike Park of Asian Man Records. You can register here or make a general donation here.

Our Dispatches series of band blogs featured Cleveland, Ohio’s The Sidekicks (Episode 3). We also featured Episode 11 of Mike Hale‘s ongoing tour diary “For Those Still Standing.”

This week we spoke with solo artist Warped Tour mastermind Kevin Lyman (interview), Chris Wollard of the Draft, Hot Water Music and most recently Chris Wollard and The Ship Thieves (interview), and the legendary Keith Morris of Black Flag and the Circle Jerks (interview). As always we brought you new Streaming Music including the new song “No Rest” from St. Catharines, Ontario’s Alexisonfire, the new full length from Calgary, Alberta’s This Is A Standoff, and Minneapolis’ the Gateway District (members of the Soviettes, Banner Pilot, Off with Their Heads, Rivethead). So what’s coming up this week? Look for new releases from Alexisonfire, Classics Of Love, Bouncing Souls, Darkest Hour, Dinosaur Jr., Future of the Left, Spinnerette and the Lemonheads with tours kicking off from Brand New / Moneen (UK), Squirtgun (US / Europe), Sick Of It All (Europe), Teen Idols / The Leftovers (US), Fake Problems with Kiss Kiss, Ninja Gun (US / Canada), Sonic Youth (US), and Subhumans (UK) / Ray Gradys / Witch Hunt (Canada / US). This week also marks the kick off of the 2009 Warped Tour featuring bands like Bad Religion, NOFX, Bouncing Souls, Less Than Jake, Anti-Flag and many others.

Click Read More to check out our ongoing contests, new streaming music, social networking links and more.
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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 community talking this week…

This week Against Me! unveiled that George Rebelo of Hot Water Music has joined the band as their new drummer. Rebelo replaces the recently departed Warren Oakes, who left the band after a number of years to, at least in part, focus on his new Mexican restaurant. Blink-182‘s high profile reunion continues to roll along. Tom Delonge discussed the Rush and Pink Floyd inspired new song that they plan to unveil on tour, along with a free film and album from his other project Angels and Airwaves titled Love. Anti-Flag protest California’s Proposition 8 with a new 7-inch EP on Fat Wreck Chords. The band will also be joined by Alexisonfire as co-headliners on the forthcoming Eastpak Antidote Tour. With the start of this year’s Warped Tour imminent there’s lots of news from that camp. Popular video game Rock Band is promising the release of Warped-themed track packs, while NOFX is set to be featured on the upcoming Warped Tour comp with an unreleased song. In other festival news the lineup for Riot Fest has been expanded to feature Butthole Surfers, New Bomb Turks, Off With Their Heads, 88 Fingers Louie, and Pegboy.

Many bands are hard at work on new records. Face To Face is writing and plans to hit the studio in July. Cobra Skulls detailed the art and track listing for the July release of American Rubicon. The Lawrence Arms will enter the studio soon to record a new 7″. Moneen‘s next will be The World I Want to Leave Behind and will arrive on September 15th. Polar Bear Club detailed their upcoming Chasing Hamburg. Finally Glassjaw looks to have completed their new EP. The Mad Caddies have tour dates set for California and Europe soon. Naked Raygun, Paint It Black and Shot Baker will tour together this September. Rx Bandits posted a new song from their forthcoming record Mandala titled “Hope Is A Butterfly, Not Net Its Captor.” Set Your Goals unveiled the track “Gaia Bleeds” from their Epitaph debut, featuring Jon Gula of Turmoil. This week brought us video footage of the Gaslight Anthem performing “Live on the Interface” as well as Rancid on the Tonight Show playing “Last One To Die.”

Punknews.org will be represented this year at the 2009 San Francisco AIDS Walk on July 19th. The current team features Punknews readers, staff from Fat Wreck Chords and our pal Mike Park of Asian Man Records. You can register here or make a general donation here.

Our Dispatches series of band blogs featured Cleveland, Ohio’s The Sidekicks (Episode 3). We also featured Episode 11 of Mike Hale‘s ongoing tour diary “For Those Still Standing.”

This week we spoke with solo artist Warped Tour mastermind Kevin Lyman (interview), Chris Wollard of the Draft, Hot Water Music and most recently Chris Wollard and The Ship Thieves (interview), and the legendary Keith Morris of Black Flag and the Circle Jerks (interview). As always we brought you new Streaming Music including the new song “No Rest” from St. Catharines, Ontario’s Alexisonfire, the new full length from Calgary, Alberta’s This Is A Standoff, and Minneapolis’ the Gateway District (members of the Soviettes, Banner Pilot, Off with Their Heads, Rivethead). So what’s coming up this week? Look for new releases from Alexisonfire, Classics Of Love, Bouncing Souls, Darkest Hour, Dinosaur Jr., Future of the Left, Spinnerette and the Lemonheads with tours kicking off from Brand New / Moneen (UK), Squirtgun (US / Europe), Sick Of It All (Europe), Teen Idols / The Leftovers (US), Fake Problems with Kiss Kiss, Ninja Gun (US / Canada), Sonic Youth (US), and Subhumans (UK) / Ray Gradys / Witch Hunt (Canada / US). This week also marks the kick off of the 2009 Warped Tour featuring bands like Bad Religion, NOFX, Bouncing Souls, Less Than Jake, Anti-Flag and many others.

Click Read More to check out our ongoing contests, new streaming music, social networking links and more.
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