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…

Doughnarchy! Confectioncore! The big newsmaker this week was Scott Sturgeon, better known to you as Stza, of Leftover Crack, Choking Victim and most recently the Star Fucking Hipsters. Ol’ Stz was doing his usual thing, playing a protest show in a New York City park, and capped it off by throwing doughnuts from the stage at nearby cops. Unsurprisingly he was arrested. Following the incident Stza sent us over a comment on the incident. It’s not a band we’d usually talk about, but the file sharing debate is always of interest. The frontman of heavy metal act Slipknot came forward and blamed the labels in a chat with Kerrang. We had word that Tsunami Bomb will soon reunite to raise money for a friend suffering from a brain tumor. Another Punknews favourite act is calling it quits, with New Mexican Disaster Squad wrapping things up at this years Fest in Gainesville. Speaking of fests, there was some uncertainty regarding California’s Liskfest. The event, that will feature bands like Pennywise, Gorilla Biscuits, and Strung Out, was canceled due to low ticket sales and then revived with new backing. Geoff Rickly of Thursday and most recently United Nations wrote an interesting editorial recently that discussed political apathy in music.

Punknews readers were excited to hear that Brendan Kelly of site faves the Lawrence Arms and the Falcon is considering a solo 7-inch series. Streetlight Manifesto announced an ambitious new recording project and the return of Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution. Angels & Airwaves have plans to record their next album in January. Fear Before The March Of Flames are shortening their name to Fear Before, and are planning a self-titled full length to make it official. Epitaph Records has signed “Best British Newcomers” act Bring Me The Horizon. American Steel announced shows in New York and Chicago as well as a tour of Germany. Southern Californian hardcore act Tiefighter made some waves with a cover of Blink-182‘s “Pathetic.”

The Gaslight Anthem predictably came out on top when we tallied up the reader album rankings from August. This week we spoke with Civet frontwoman Liza Graves (interview). This week’s edition of Vinyl File featured a look at upcoming releases. As always we brought you new Streaming Music including the new full length from Richmond, VA’s The Riot Before. So what’s coming up this week? Look for releases from Black President, Punchline The Girls and FemBots with tours kicking off from My Bloody Valentine (All Tomorrow’s Parties and more), Henry Rollins (spoken word) and The Sainte Catherines (Mexico).
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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…

Doughnarchy! Confectioncore! The big newsmaker this week was Scott Sturgeon, better known to you as Stza, of Leftover Crack, Choking Victim and most recently the Star Fucking Hipsters. Ol’ Stz was doing his usual thing, playing a protest show in a New York City park, and capped it off by throwing doughnuts from the stage at nearby cops. Unsurprisingly he was arrested. Following the incident Stza sent us over a comment on the incident. It’s not a band we’d usually talk about, but the file sharing debate is always of interest. The frontman of heavy metal act Slipknot came forward and blamed the labels in a chat with Kerrang. We had word that Tsunami Bomb will soon reunite to raise money for a friend suffering from a brain tumor. Another Punknews favourite act is calling it quits, with New Mexican Disaster Squad wrapping things up at this years Fest in Gainesville. Speaking of fests, there was some uncertainty regarding California’s Liskfest. The event, that will feature bands like Pennywise, Gorilla Biscuits, and Strung Out, was canceled due to low ticket sales and then revived with new backing. Geoff Rickly of Thursday and most recently United Nations wrote an interesting editorial recently that discussed political apathy in music.

Punknews readers were excited to hear that Brendan Kelly of site faves the Lawrence Arms and the Falcon is considering a solo 7-inch series. Streetlight Manifesto announced an ambitious new recording project and the return of Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution. Angels & Airwaves have plans to record their next album in January. Fear Before The March Of Flames are shortening their name to Fear Before, and are planning a self-titled full length to make it official. Epitaph Records has signed “Best British Newcomers” act Bring Me The Horizon. American Steel announced shows in New York and Chicago as well as a tour of Germany. Southern Californian hardcore act Tiefighter made some waves with a cover of Blink-182‘s “Pathetic.”

The Gaslight Anthem predictably came out on top when we tallied up the reader album rankings from August. This week we spoke with Civet frontwoman Liza Graves (interview). This week’s edition of Vinyl File featured a look at upcoming releases. As always we brought you new Streaming Music including the new full length from Richmond, VA’s The Riot Before. So what’s coming up this week? Look for releases from Black President, Punchline The Girls and FemBots with tours kicking off from My Bloody Valentine (All Tomorrow’s Parties and more), Henry Rollins (spoken word) and The Sainte Catherines (Mexico).
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