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 is the season of tours and festivals and that’s what dominated the news this week. Looking ahead to the fall we saw the formal announcement that The Fest will again rock Florida with their seventh year. The Warped Tour is underway and organizers are striving to make the summer ritual environmentally sustainable. Against Me! appeared on the Tonight Show and frontman Tom Gabel announced solo appearances with Chuck Ragan, Tim Barry and Ben Nichols of Lucero. Canuck indie darlings Tegan & Sara and Alexisonfire offshoot City & Colour announced shows together this fall. This week had it’s share of offbeat news as well. A Boston paper discussed punks in the freemasons, over the hill rockers KISS accused Radiohead of contributing to the demise of the recording industry, Escape The Fate‘s former singer was caught by police and Rolling Stone tore apart the new TV show from Fall Out Boy‘s Pete Wentz.
Digital music’s still a small slice of the pie but it’s showing some muscle with the announcement that Apple’s iTunes store has sold 5 billion songs. Coming to a store (physical and otherwise) soon will be Alkaline Trio‘s new one, of which there’ll be a deluxe version and, um, matching shoes. Christian metalcore act The Devil Wears Prada will release their next via Ferret. Rise Against has recorded the song “Little Boxes” for use on the TV show Weeds. On the streaming music front we checked out Rotation by Cute Is What We Aim For and Against Me!’s “So Much More”. We also lent a curious ear to Greg Graffin‘s son’s band The Rolemodels.
This week we’re also asking for your advice. Punk and politics are often closely intertwined, but how (if at all) should we approach the upcoming US election? Do we cover politics here on Punknews? Do we leave it to the experts? Let us know what you want from your Org.
The Asian Man Records tour is in full effect and we had a little sit down with the bands involved for a group chat. Check out the interview with Kepi Ghoulie, Jeff of Bomb the Music Industry!, Alexander of Lemuria, Sean from Andrew Jackson Jihad and Joe Queer of The Queers. Our Video of the Week featured Scranton, Pennsylvania’s Menzingers performing live in Richmond, Virginia. This week’s Editors’ Picks recommended music from Dublin’s Heathers and Calgary’s Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir. This week also brought new Streaming Music from Philadelphia’s Jekylnhyde, three new songs from Mark Lind and The Unloved, and a full album stream from Austin, TX-based Driver F.
So what’s coming up this week? Look for releases from Less Than Jake, Steve E. Nix and the Cute Lepers, Cancer Bats and LaGrecia with tours kicking off from Butthole Surfers (US / UK), King Khan and the Shrines (US / Can), and H2O (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 community talking…
This is the season of tours and festivals and that’s what dominated the news this week. Looking ahead to the fall we saw the formal announcement that The Fest will again rock Florida with their seventh year. The Warped Tour is underway and organizers are striving to make the summer ritual environmentally sustainable. Against Me! appeared on the Tonight Show and frontman Tom Gabel announced solo appearances with Chuck Ragan, Tim Barry and Ben Nichols of Lucero. Canuck indie darlings Tegan & Sara and Alexisonfire offshoot City & Colour announced shows together this fall. This week had it’s share of offbeat news as well. A Boston paper discussed punks in the freemasons, over the hill rockers KISS accused Radiohead of contributing to the demise of the recording industry, Escape The Fate‘s former singer was caught by police and Rolling Stone tore apart the new TV show from Fall Out Boy‘s Pete Wentz.
Digital music’s still a small slice of the pie but it’s showing some muscle with the announcement that Apple’s iTunes store has sold 5 billion songs. Coming to a store (physical and otherwise) soon will be Alkaline Trio‘s new one, of which there’ll be a deluxe version and, um, matching shoes. Christian metalcore act The Devil Wears Prada will release their next via Ferret. Rise Against has recorded the song “Little Boxes” for use on the TV show Weeds. On the streaming music front we checked out Rotation by Cute Is What We Aim For and Against Me!’s “So Much More”. We also lent a curious ear to Greg Graffin‘s son’s band The Rolemodels.
This week we’re also asking for your advice. Punk and politics are often closely intertwined, but how (if at all) should we approach the upcoming US election? Do we cover politics here on Punknews? Do we leave it to the experts? Let us know what you want from your Org.
The Asian Man Records tour is in full effect and we had a little sit down with the bands involved for a group chat. Check out the interview with Kepi Ghoulie, Jeff of Bomb the Music Industry!, Alexander of Lemuria, Sean from Andrew Jackson Jihad and Joe Queer of The Queers. Our Video of the Week featured Scranton, Pennsylvania’s Menzingers performing live in Richmond, Virginia. This week’s Editors’ Picks recommended music from Dublin’s Heathers and Calgary’s Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir. This week also brought new Streaming Music from Philadelphia’s Jekylnhyde, three new songs from Mark Lind and The Unloved, and a full album stream from Austin, TX-based Driver F.
So what’s coming up this week? Look for releases from Less Than Jake, Steve E. Nix and the Cute Lepers, Cancer Bats and LaGrecia with tours kicking off from Butthole Surfers (US / UK), King Khan and the Shrines (US / Can), and H2O (Europe).
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