Ahoy hoy. I’m Justin and this is Navel Gazing. Every week we take a look at the important stories: what got you talking, what got us talking and what seems pertinent to touch on again and serve it up to you. Your regularly schedule Canuck will be back next week but for now it’s just you and me. Giddy up.

Big news this week for fans of tents, 10 dollar bottles of water and Playstations: the final lineup of the 2008 Warped Tour was announced and includes favorites like Against Me!, Bouncing Souls, the Briggs, Bedouin Soundclash, Pennywise, Rise Against, Reel Big Fish, the Vandals and GBH. There’s a metric tonne of other bands as well.

Speaking of Against Me!, they showed up quite a bit this week. Apparently they raised $18,000 for Harvest of Hope and have booked dates in Australia with Crime In Stereo. They also posted an acoustic rendition of “Baby I’m An Anarchist” and an unreleased track called “Gypsy Panther.” Rowr.

Epitaph is going where no label has gone before with a deluxe edition of New Maps of Hell. Bad Religion themselves have extended their House of Blues tour. Other news related to the big “E” is that they’ll be releasing Millencolin‘s new album Machine 15 in May. In the same general vein, Rancid will be recording at Skywalker Ranch. That’s George Lucas’ place, if you hadn’t heard. Oh, and those Canadian collectivists Propagandhi will be heading to Japan with Comeback Kid. We got a studio update from our friends in Alkaline Trio. Rumor has it the new album will have lots of skulls and severed arm imagery associated with it.

It feels like some sort of VH1 “Revenge of the 90’s” style thing when I hear about Goldfinger‘s new album to include Good Charlotte, Used, Save Ferris and Youth of Today cameos, while I fear for the children after hearing about Fall Out Boy‘s “Beat It” cover. Speaking of, Panic At the Disco customized a Civic for their tour. Woo. I’m drawing a thread here, see if you can follow, Paramore talked about their UK tour cancellation and Sid Vicious, Ian Curtis, Billie Joe Armstrong to pitch Converse in new campaign.

And finally, if there were any doubt that the CD is nearing the end of its life as a medium it was erased as the iTunes Store became second biggest music retailer.

Chris is passed out somewhere in Richmod and as such there was no Video of the Week this week. However you should browse through our archives and send us suggestions of who you’d like to see here! Ben apparently is actually trapped underneath Chris’s comatose body as Vinyl File took a break as well. Our Editors’ Picks this week featured Election Day, from somewhere in the cold bowels of upstate New York. This week also brought new Streaming Music from a number of bands, including Capillary Action‘s new LP and Gangster Stamina, the new EP from Dirty Tactics.
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Ahoy hoy. I’m Justin and this is Navel Gazing. Every week we take a look at the important stories: what got you talking, what got us talking and what seems pertinent to touch on again and serve it up to you. Your regularly schedule Canuck will be back next week but for now it’s just you and me. Giddy up.

Big news this week for fans of tents, 10 dollar bottles of water and Playstations: the final lineup of the 2008 Warped Tour was announced and includes favorites like Against Me!, Bouncing Souls, the Briggs, Bedouin Soundclash, Pennywise, Rise Against, Reel Big Fish, the Vandals and GBH. There’s a metric tonne of other bands as well.

Speaking of Against Me!, they showed up quite a bit this week. Apparently they raised $18,000 for Harvest of Hope and have booked dates in Australia with Crime In Stereo. They also posted an acoustic rendition of “Baby I’m An Anarchist” and an unreleased track called “Gypsy Panther.” Rowr.

Epitaph is going where no label has gone before with a deluxe edition of New Maps of Hell. Bad Religion themselves have extended their House of Blues tour. Other news related to the big “E” is that they’ll be releasing Millencolin‘s new album Machine 15 in May. In the same general vein, Rancid will be recording at Skywalker Ranch. That’s George Lucas’ place, if you hadn’t heard. Oh, and those Canadian collectivists Propagandhi will be heading to Japan with Comeback Kid. We got a studio update from our friends in Alkaline Trio. Rumor has it the new album will have lots of skulls and severed arm imagery associated with it.

It feels like some sort of VH1 “Revenge of the 90’s” style thing when I hear about Goldfinger‘s new album to include Good Charlotte, Used, Save Ferris and Youth of Today cameos, while I fear for the children after hearing about Fall Out Boy‘s “Beat It” cover. Speaking of, Panic At the Disco customized a Civic for their tour. Woo. I’m drawing a thread here, see if you can follow, Paramore talked about their UK tour cancellation and Sid Vicious, Ian Curtis, Billie Joe Armstrong to pitch Converse in new campaign.

And finally, if there were any doubt that the CD is nearing the end of its life as a medium it was erased as the iTunes Store became second biggest music retailer.

Chris is passed out somewhere in Richmod and as such there was no Video of the Week this week. However you should browse through our archives and send us suggestions of who you’d like to see here! Ben apparently is actually trapped underneath Chris’s comatose body as Vinyl File took a break as well. Our Editors’ Picks this week featured Election Day, from somewhere in the cold bowels of upstate New York. This week also brought new Streaming Music from a number of bands, including Capillary Action‘s new LP and Gangster Stamina, the new EP from Dirty Tactics.
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