It’s Sunday, September 23rd, 2007. Now that the Canadian dollar has reached parity with the greenback we can reverse the brain drain of Canuck talent to the States. That goes for Punknews editors too. Chris, Brian, Justin, Meg: come home to Tuktoyaktuk. Your mother misses you.
The people must have something good to read on a Sunday
I’ve had to train myself not to read the associated comment threads, but it’s always a fun week when the Sex Pistols are back in the news. Despite their recently announced 30th anniversary show the big story didn’t actually come from the band Canadian telco Bell caused a controversy by running an ad featuring a “Belsen Was a Gas” pin, which they quickly pulled considering the reference. Johnny didn’t let the spotlight waver for long though, turning heads by lambasting Sting and the recently reunited Police. Late era Ramones drummer Richie emerged from obscurity this week, suing the estate of Johnny Ramone, Apple, Wal-Mart and Real over use of his songs. We had more tour dates for the Lawrence Arms, American Steel, the Falcon and Sundowner tour, with news that Eli Catere of the Smoking Popes would be playing guitar for the Falcon. Tom Delonge talked up the new Angels & Airwaves record and his 30 year plan to change the world. The band released their new video for “Everything’s Magic” this week as well.
There were more details revealed on the recent scuffle between Brent Hinds of Mastodon and System of a Down bassist Shavo Odadjian. A high school student was suspended for hanging an All Time Low poster, as men in underwear are potentially the greatest threat to the American education system. This week also had news of a Kid Dynamite tribute compilation, a discussion of Fall Out Boy‘s Invisible Children benefit video, and scant details on a new EP from AFI. Finally we had a few updates from former Island acts Thursday and Thrice. The former detailed their “Kill the House Lights” collection while the latter previewed a pair of songs from their next.
This week featured a chat with East Bay Ray of the Dead Kennedys (interview). Our Video of the Week featured part three of our video countdown to the Fest 6. This week we checked out the some footage of the Pink Razors. The ninth edition of Vinyl File featured the first part of two part look at the vinyl out put of modern punk favourites the Alkaline Trio and previewed lots of upcoming wax. We also streamed new music from
Source It’s Sunday, September 23rd, 2007. Now that the Canadian dollar has reached parity with the greenback we can reverse the brain drain of Canuck talent to the States. That goes for Punknews editors too. Chris, Brian, Justin, Meg: come home to Tuktoyaktuk. Your mother misses you.
The people must have something good to read on a Sunday
I’ve had to train myself not to read the associated comment threads, but it’s always a fun week when the Sex Pistols are back in the news. Despite their recently announced 30th anniversary show the big story didn’t actually come from the band Canadian telco Bell caused a controversy by running an ad featuring a “Belsen Was a Gas” pin, which they quickly pulled considering the reference. Johnny didn’t let the spotlight waver for long though, turning heads by lambasting Sting and the recently reunited Police. Late era Ramones drummer Richie emerged from obscurity this week, suing the estate of Johnny Ramone, Apple, Wal-Mart and Real over use of his songs. We had more tour dates for the Lawrence Arms, American Steel, the Falcon and Sundowner tour, with news that Eli Catere of the Smoking Popes would be playing guitar for the Falcon. Tom Delonge talked up the new Angels & Airwaves record and his 30 year plan to change the world. The band released their new video for “Everything’s Magic” this week as well.
There were more details revealed on the recent scuffle between Brent Hinds of Mastodon and System of a Down bassist Shavo Odadjian. A high school student was suspended for hanging an All Time Low poster, as men in underwear are potentially the greatest threat to the American education system. This week also had news of a Kid Dynamite tribute compilation, a discussion of Fall Out Boy‘s Invisible Children benefit video, and scant details on a new EP from AFI. Finally we had a few updates from former Island acts Thursday and Thrice. The former detailed their “Kill the House Lights” collection while the latter previewed a pair of songs from their next.
This week featured a chat with East Bay Ray of the Dead Kennedys (interview). Our Video of the Week featured part three of our video countdown to the Fest 6. This week we checked out the some footage of the Pink Razors. The ninth edition of Vinyl File featured the first part of two part look at the vinyl out put of modern punk favourites the Alkaline Trio and previewed lots of upcoming wax. We also streamed new music from