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 strange, slow, old people in the community talking…

We could really launch an entire Against Me! sub-site given the volume of news they generate. The band was involved in a bus crash earlier this week, but walked away with no serious injuries. Frontman Tom Gabel commented on the accident, and also streamed his new solo LP Heart Burns. The band itself will begin to work on their next album soon, and has laid out plans for writing early next year. Popular act Fall Out Boy is aiming to set a record for the most radio interviews in a day on Halloween. The group is doing the press in support of their upcoming album Folie à Deux. The massively influential band Jawbreaker is planning a reissue of their Unfun album. They’ll also be the subject of an upcoming documentary. To top it all off, Frontman Blake Schwarzenbach also revealed that he’s making music again with an as-yet-unnamed group.

3rd wave ska survivors Reel Big Fish are planning a covers album. A tribute to Kid Dynamite is set for release in the spring and will feature interpretations of the band’s work from acts like the Ergs, This Is Hell, and Broadway Calls. There’ll be plenty of punk bands in upcoming video games. Looks for the Clash, TSOL, Teenage Bottlerocket and One Man Army in Skate 2 while Between the Buried and Me, Underoath, and Authority Zero will head to Rock Band 2. This week we checked out MxPx‘s version of “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” and an acoustic session from the Gaslight Anthem. Look for Bomb The Music Industry on tour this fall with bands like Shinobu and Mustard Plug. We end the week with some videos, including Simple Plan‘s “Save You” and the Offspring‘s “You’re Gonna Go Far, Kid.”

This week we spoke with Brett Adams of Richmond, Virginia’s the Riot Before (interview) and artist Heather Gabel, who’s done artwork for the Alkaline Trio, My Chemical Romance, AFI and the Lawrence Arms (interview). Our Video of the Week featured New Brunswick, NJ’s Let Me Run. As always we brought you new Streaming Music including the song “Six Days a Week” from the Bronx, the new album from Israeli punk outfit Useless ID, the new charity-benefiting compilation All Aboard: A Tribute To Johnny Cash, the new solo album from Lagwagon frontman Joey Cape, Columbus, Ohio’s Two Cow Garage, and the new full length from Los Angeles-based Roll the Tanks.

So what’s coming up this week? Look for new releases from Chiodos, Dead To Me, Deerhunter, Fear Before the Damned, the Tossers and Tom Gabel with tours kicking off from Rancid (UK), No Use For A Name / Pulley (US West Coast), Pelican / Kayo Dot / Stove Bredsky / Zozobra (US), Beastie Boys (Get Out And Vote tour, Slayer / Mastodon / Trivium (Europe), and The Nightwatchman (Tom Morello) (US).
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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 strange, slow, old people in the community talking…

We could really launch an entire Against Me! sub-site given the volume of news they generate. The band was involved in a bus crash earlier this week, but walked away with no serious injuries. Frontman Tom Gabel commented on the accident, and also streamed his new solo LP Heart Burns. The band itself will begin to work on their next album soon, and has laid out plans for writing early next year. Popular act Fall Out Boy is aiming to set a record for the most radio interviews in a day on Halloween. The group is doing the press in support of their upcoming album Folie à Deux. The massively influential band Jawbreaker is planning a reissue of their Unfun album. They’ll also be the subject of an upcoming documentary. To top it all off, Frontman Blake Schwarzenbach also revealed that he’s making music again with an as-yet-unnamed group.

3rd wave ska survivors Reel Big Fish are planning a covers album. A tribute to Kid Dynamite is set for release in the spring and will feature interpretations of the band’s work from acts like the Ergs, This Is Hell, and Broadway Calls. There’ll be plenty of punk bands in upcoming video games. Looks for the Clash, TSOL, Teenage Bottlerocket and One Man Army in Skate 2 while Between the Buried and Me, Underoath, and Authority Zero will head to Rock Band 2. This week we checked out MxPx‘s version of “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” and an acoustic session from the Gaslight Anthem. Look for Bomb The Music Industry on tour this fall with bands like Shinobu and Mustard Plug. We end the week with some videos, including Simple Plan‘s “Save You” and the Offspring‘s “You’re Gonna Go Far, Kid.”

This week we spoke with Brett Adams of Richmond, Virginia’s the Riot Before (interview) and artist Heather Gabel, who’s done artwork for the Alkaline Trio, My Chemical Romance, AFI and the Lawrence Arms (interview). Our Video of the Week featured New Brunswick, NJ’s Let Me Run. As always we brought you new Streaming Music including the song “Six Days a Week” from the Bronx, the new album from Israeli punk outfit Useless ID, the new charity-benefiting compilation All Aboard: A Tribute To Johnny Cash, the new solo album from Lagwagon frontman Joey Cape, Columbus, Ohio’s Two Cow Garage, and the new full length from Los Angeles-based Roll the Tanks.

So what’s coming up this week? Look for new releases from Chiodos, Dead To Me, Deerhunter, Fear Before the Damned, the Tossers and Tom Gabel with tours kicking off from Rancid (UK), No Use For A Name / Pulley (US West Coast), Pelican / Kayo Dot / Stove Bredsky / Zozobra (US), Beastie Boys (Get Out And Vote tour, Slayer / Mastodon / Trivium (Europe), and The Nightwatchman (Tom Morello) (US).
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