It’s Sunday, November 25th, 2007. Welcome to Navel Gazing, your look back at this week in Punknews. It’s Grey Cup night and I know that our primarily American audience is too enthralled with the Saskatchewan / Winnipeg game to care for my silly intro, so I’ll get right to it.
The people must have something good to read on a Sunday
I can’t find much of a common theme amongst this week’s stories, but we did have some fascinating insights from a number of punk personalities. Brad Logan of Leftover Crack spoke about the cancellation of the band’s Canadian tour, putting the blame on a criminal record and some info the border authorities found on MySpace. Angels & Airwaves‘ Tom Delonge has seemingly shed his messiah complex, revealing past drug abuse to MTV and generally starting to make sense again. Kevin Barnes of Of Montreal wrote an essay on selling out, looking to see if the label is even relevant today. Fall Out Boy got into some trouble by basing their tour artwork on Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, forcing the band to change it. Radiohead continued to deflate the hype surrounding their digital release, chocking it up to a stunt thought up by management. Of course not a week goes by without more lunacy from the various industry trade groups. This week the MPAA attempted to justify tying college funding to anti-piracy initiatives.
We had the first slate of tour dates from the 2008 Fat Tour featuring NOFX, No Use For A Name and the Flatliners. BYO act A Global Threat has called it quits. We saw a trailer for One Nine Nine Four: Documenting the Birth, Growth and Explosion of Punk Rock in the 90s as well as the new video from Canadian pop-punk act Gob. We had a number of updates on new releases, including a studio video from the Loved Ones and a recording progress update from Millencolin. Pennywise also revealed an ambitious plan to curious plan to release and ad-supported album through MySpace.
We were also brought news of the death of Hawthorne Heights guitarist Casey Calvert (1981-2007). Our condolences go out to his family and friends.
This week featured one of our more interesting interview features in recent memory. Norman Brannon of Texas is the Reason and Shelter, author of The Anti-Matter Anthology: A 1990s Post-Punk & Hardcore Reader, interviews and Rob Fish of 108 in a two part feature looking back at the hardcore scene which spawned the book. You can check out part 1 and part 2. The eighteenth edition of Vinyl File featured a conversation with Steve Stevenson, better known as Stevo! from 1-2-3-4 Go! Records. Our Editors’ Picks of the week featured music from New Jersey’s Endgame. We brought you new music this week including the lead track off This Is Hell‘s new 7″ Cripplers, and six songs from NOFX‘s upcoming live album They’ve Actually Gotten Worse Live.
Source It’s Sunday, November 25th, 2007. Welcome to Navel Gazing, your look back at this week in Punknews. It’s Grey Cup night and I know that our primarily American audience is too enthralled with the Saskatchewan / Winnipeg game to care for my silly intro, so I’ll get right to it.
The people must have something good to read on a Sunday
I can’t find much of a common theme amongst this week’s stories, but we did have some fascinating insights from a number of punk personalities. Brad Logan of Leftover Crack spoke about the cancellation of the band’s Canadian tour, putting the blame on a criminal record and some info the border authorities found on MySpace. Angels & Airwaves‘ Tom Delonge has seemingly shed his messiah complex, revealing past drug abuse to MTV and generally starting to make sense again. Kevin Barnes of Of Montreal wrote an essay on selling out, looking to see if the label is even relevant today. Fall Out Boy got into some trouble by basing their tour artwork on Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, forcing the band to change it. Radiohead continued to deflate the hype surrounding their digital release, chocking it up to a stunt thought up by management. Of course not a week goes by without more lunacy from the various industry trade groups. This week the MPAA attempted to justify tying college funding to anti-piracy initiatives.
We had the first slate of tour dates from the 2008 Fat Tour featuring NOFX, No Use For A Name and the Flatliners. BYO act A Global Threat has called it quits. We saw a trailer for One Nine Nine Four: Documenting the Birth, Growth and Explosion of Punk Rock in the 90s as well as the new video from Canadian pop-punk act Gob. We had a number of updates on new releases, including a studio video from the Loved Ones and a recording progress update from Millencolin. Pennywise also revealed an ambitious plan to curious plan to release and ad-supported album through MySpace.
We were also brought news of the death of Hawthorne Heights guitarist Casey Calvert (1981-2007). Our condolences go out to his family and friends.
This week featured one of our more interesting interview features in recent memory. Norman Brannon of Texas is the Reason and Shelter, author of The Anti-Matter Anthology: A 1990s Post-Punk & Hardcore Reader, interviews and Rob Fish of 108 in a two part feature looking back at the hardcore scene which spawned the book. You can check out part 1 and part 2. The eighteenth edition of Vinyl File featured a conversation with Steve Stevenson, better known as Stevo! from 1-2-3-4 Go! Records. Our Editors’ Picks of the week featured music from New Jersey’s Endgame. We brought you new music this week including the lead track off This Is Hell‘s new 7″ Cripplers, and six songs from NOFX‘s upcoming live album They’ve Actually Gotten Worse Live.
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