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…
This week had harrowing news for fans of Plus 44 and Blink-182 as drummer Travis Barker was one of two survivors of a plane crash. Four people were killed in the accident, which saw Barker and DJ AM in critical condition with second and third degree burns. Reports have come in that they’ve since stabilized. Our best wishes go out to them for a quick recovery. With the XM and Sirius merger in full swing the networks’ punk rock stations seem to have been lost in the shuffle. Fungus 53 and Sirius Punk are soon to be replaced by a 24/7 AC/DC channel. Alt-country act Lucero is delving further into the major label system, singing to Universal Republic for a four album deal. On their way out of that world, popular act New Found Glory has found a new home at Epitaph Records. One thing that the majors have noticed is the resurgance of vinyl, and Sony/Legacy is planning to bring it back for select releases. Finally it looks like the Foo Fighters are taking a hiatus. There’s no word when we’ll next hear from Grohl and company, but given their prolific sideprojects they’ll hardly go unheard.
There’s some interesting new relases on the horizon. Tom Gabel of Against Me! has detailed his solo EP. A Wilhelm Scream has looked ahead to their Career Suicide follow up. Even Reagan Youth are working on new album. Fall Out Boy has posted artwork for their next as well. We had details on the upcoming video game Guitar Hero World Tour, and word that it will feature NOFX, the Sex Pistols, Blink-182 and Rise Against. On the new music front we got to check out “AMERICASPREMIEREFAITHBASEDINITIATIVE” from Dillinger Four and ” Collapse (Post-Amerika) from Rise Against.
Punknews’ own Ben Conoley is on the road now with Less Than Jake, Reel Big Fish and the Flatliners. Expect pictures, set lists, a tour journal and maybe even some video over the next few weeks. Our first report just came in.
This week we spoke with Matt Farrell and Dave Hall of Young Livers (interview) and a two part interview with Set Your Goals. We chattted with Junior (aka Audelio Flores) and Mike Ambrose on two seperate occasions (interview). As always we brought you new Streaming Music including a few tracks from the new split between Thursday and Envy, the new full length from Monikers, the return of Dirtnap power pop act The Girls, the new EP from Bridge 9 melodic hardcore act Energy, and new music from Gainesville-based duo Liquid Limbs.
So what’s coming up this week? Look for reissues and collections the Undertones and the Replacements with new music from Akimbo, Sing It Loud and the Action Design with tours kicking off from Weezer, Angels and Airwaves and Tokyo Police Club (North America), and Underoath (South Africa).
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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…
This week had harrowing news for fans of Plus 44 and Blink-182 as drummer Travis Barker was one of two survivors of a plane crash. Four people were killed in the accident, which saw Barker and DJ AM in critical condition with second and third degree burns. Reports have come in that they’ve since stabilized. Our best wishes go out to them for a quick recovery. With the XM and Sirius merger in full swing the networks’ punk rock stations seem to have been lost in the shuffle. Fungus 53 and Sirius Punk are soon to be replaced by a 24/7 AC/DC channel. Alt-country act Lucero is delving further into the major label system, singing to Universal Republic for a four album deal. On their way out of that world, popular act New Found Glory has found a new home at Epitaph Records. One thing that the majors have noticed is the resurgance of vinyl, and Sony/Legacy is planning to bring it back for select releases. Finally it looks like the Foo Fighters are taking a hiatus. There’s no word when we’ll next hear from Grohl and company, but given their prolific sideprojects they’ll hardly go unheard.
There’s some interesting new relases on the horizon. Tom Gabel of Against Me! has detailed his solo EP. A Wilhelm Scream has looked ahead to their Career Suicide follow up. Even Reagan Youth are working on new album. Fall Out Boy has posted artwork for their next as well. We had details on the upcoming video game Guitar Hero World Tour, and word that it will feature NOFX, the Sex Pistols, Blink-182 and Rise Against. On the new music front we got to check out “AMERICASPREMIEREFAITHBASEDINITIATIVE” from Dillinger Four and ” Collapse (Post-Amerika) from Rise Against.
Punknews’ own Ben Conoley is on the road now with Less Than Jake, Reel Big Fish and the Flatliners. Expect pictures, set lists, a tour journal and maybe even some video over the next few weeks. Our first report just came in.
This week we spoke with Matt Farrell and Dave Hall of Young Livers (interview) and a two part interview with Set Your Goals. We chattted with Junior (aka Audelio Flores) and Mike Ambrose on two seperate occasions (interview). As always we brought you new Streaming Music including a few tracks from the new split between Thursday and Envy, the new full length from Monikers, the return of Dirtnap power pop act The Girls, the new EP from Bridge 9 melodic hardcore act Energy, and new music from Gainesville-based duo Liquid Limbs.
So what’s coming up this week? Look for reissues and collections the Undertones and the Replacements with new music from Akimbo, Sing It Loud and the Action Design with tours kicking off from Weezer, Angels and Airwaves and Tokyo Police Club (North America), and Underoath (South Africa).
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