It’s Sunday, November 18th, 2007. Welcome to Navel Gazing, your look back at this week in Punknews. We’ve completely descended into parody if you haven’t noticed… and you know what? It feels good.
The people must have something good to read on a Sunday
It’s a confusing time in the industry. Out of one side of it’s mouth we see a major label CEO comment that they were “wrong to go to war with consumers” and yet there’s a bill gaining traction that would threaten to pull financial aid for colleges whose students download. Now that’s something that Gene Simmons could get behind, as he thinks the industry should have sued you absolutely fucking blind for messing with them in the first place (and party ev-er-y day). So what about a new way forward? The New York Times profiled “band as a brand” marketing, focusing on Paramore as an example. One band that’s turned their back on the trend is Band of Horses who just spurned WalMart and a potentially massive payday.
We had news on Paint It Black‘s upcoming release New Lexicon and checked out a new track from it. NOFX unveiled a cut from their new live record. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones showed some details on their upcoming collection. AFI even talked about their next record and plans for an EP. Leftover Crack was thwarted on their attempt to enter Canada, prompting an angry response from Stza. We had news of a few robberies on the road, as Suburban Legends were relieved of a van and trailer and Joe Lally‘s tour with Capillary Action saw some equipment disappear. Rounding out the law and order news, we had a Scatterbox show turn into a fracas after the venue pulled the plug. We had some new videos this week, including Bad Religion‘s “New Dark Ages” and Against Me!‘s montage-core “White People for Peace.”
Our Video of the Week featured part two of our CMJ to the Fest 6 feature. It chronicles Punknews videographer Chris’ two week journey from his home base of Richmond, VA to New York City for the Mutiny PR/Punknews.org CMJ Showcase then down Gainesville for the Fest. This week we featured footage of the Lawrence Arms, the Falcon and the Gaslight Anthem. The sixteenth edition of Vinyl File featured a conversation with a NOFX collector and profiled his massive collection. We brought you new music this week including all six cuts from the Briggs acoustic Westlake Sessions, and the new record from Joey Cape’s new band the Playing Favorites.
Source It’s Sunday, November 18th, 2007. Welcome to Navel Gazing, your look back at this week in Punknews. We’ve completely descended into parody if you haven’t noticed… and you know what? It feels good.
The people must have something good to read on a Sunday
It’s a confusing time in the industry. Out of one side of it’s mouth we see a major label CEO comment that they were “wrong to go to war with consumers” and yet there’s a bill gaining traction that would threaten to pull financial aid for colleges whose students download. Now that’s something that Gene Simmons could get behind, as he thinks the industry should have sued you absolutely fucking blind for messing with them in the first place (and party ev-er-y day). So what about a new way forward? The New York Times profiled “band as a brand” marketing, focusing on Paramore as an example. One band that’s turned their back on the trend is Band of Horses who just spurned WalMart and a potentially massive payday.
We had news on Paint It Black‘s upcoming release New Lexicon and checked out a new track from it. NOFX unveiled a cut from their new live record. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones showed some details on their upcoming collection. AFI even talked about their next record and plans for an EP. Leftover Crack was thwarted on their attempt to enter Canada, prompting an angry response from Stza. We had news of a few robberies on the road, as Suburban Legends were relieved of a van and trailer and Joe Lally‘s tour with Capillary Action saw some equipment disappear. Rounding out the law and order news, we had a Scatterbox show turn into a fracas after the venue pulled the plug. We had some new videos this week, including Bad Religion‘s “New Dark Ages” and Against Me!‘s montage-core “White People for Peace.”
Our Video of the Week featured part two of our CMJ to the Fest 6 feature. It chronicles Punknews videographer Chris’ two week journey from his home base of Richmond, VA to New York City for the Mutiny PR/Punknews.org CMJ Showcase then down Gainesville for the Fest. This week we featured footage of the Lawrence Arms, the Falcon and the Gaslight Anthem. The sixteenth edition of Vinyl File featured a conversation with a NOFX collector and profiled his massive collection. We brought you new music this week including all six cuts from the Briggs acoustic Westlake Sessions, and the new record from Joey Cape’s new band the Playing Favorites.