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…

Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for The Ergs!. The beloved South Amboy based pop punk three piece is calling it quits after this year, so see them while you can.

The Republican National Convention certainly dominated news headlines this week and it snagged a few in the musical realm to boot. Rage Against The Machine and Anti-Flag played a protest show outside the convention, with Anti-Flag able to play before the authorities pulled the plug. Rage did what they could and turned out an impromptu a cappella street performance in the crowd. Vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin stole the spotlight, and we heard from Wasilla, Alaska’s Portugal. the Man about the politician’s record. While their festival went off as planned last weekend the founders of Y Yeah Fest and video site Videothing.com were allegedly beaten by security guards at a Radiohead show a few days earlier.

In lighter news Ottawa’s The Riptides have entered the Hockey Night in Canada theme challenge. My Chemical Romance bassist Mikey Way is writing a story for DC Comics. Metallica‘s finally making peace with the internet and has accepted the fact that their album leaked. We heard of several in the works albums this week, with Jay Bentley commenting on plans for the next Bad Religion record. Against Me! frontman Tom Gabel is documenting the recording of his solo album. Snow Patrol has an iPhone/iPod Touch optimized album in the works, which is likely the first of its kind. Oh, and according to Travis Barker you shouldn’t hold your breath waiting for a Blink-182 reunion. Just in case you were. On the live show front we had updated tour dates in the US and UK from Rancid and further additions to The Fest 7 with bands like Army of Ponch and Tiltwheel. Fall Out Boy set our commenters up for an easy retort with their new single titled “I Don’t Care.” If you’re looking for new video content we had trailers for both a No Idea Records mini-documentary and The Clash‘s Live at Shea teaser.

This week we spoke with Matt Fox of Shai Hulud interview). Our Video of the Week featured legendary San Francisco punk group Flipper live at Amoeba Records. As always we brought you new Streaming Music including a full album stream from “femme fatale punk rock” act Civet. So what’s coming up this week? Look for releases from A Static Lullaby, Saint Alvia United Nations and Static Thought with tours kicking off from Wire (US / Canada), Street Dogs, Time Again and Flatfoot 56 (US) and Flogging Molly (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…

Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for The Ergs!. The beloved South Amboy based pop punk three piece is calling it quits after this year, so see them while you can.

The Republican National Convention certainly dominated news headlines this week and it snagged a few in the musical realm to boot. Rage Against The Machine and Anti-Flag played a protest show outside the convention, with Anti-Flag able to play before the authorities pulled the plug. Rage did what they could and turned out an impromptu a cappella street performance in the crowd. Vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin stole the spotlight, and we heard from Wasilla, Alaska’s Portugal. the Man about the politician’s record. While their festival went off as planned last weekend the founders of Y Yeah Fest and video site Videothing.com were allegedly beaten by security guards at a Radiohead show a few days earlier.

In lighter news Ottawa’s The Riptides have entered the Hockey Night in Canada theme challenge. My Chemical Romance bassist Mikey Way is writing a story for DC Comics. Metallica‘s finally making peace with the internet and has accepted the fact that their album leaked. We heard of several in the works albums this week, with Jay Bentley commenting on plans for the next Bad Religion record. Against Me! frontman Tom Gabel is documenting the recording of his solo album. Snow Patrol has an iPhone/iPod Touch optimized album in the works, which is likely the first of its kind. Oh, and according to Travis Barker you shouldn’t hold your breath waiting for a Blink-182 reunion. Just in case you were. On the live show front we had updated tour dates in the US and UK from Rancid and further additions to The Fest 7 with bands like Army of Ponch and Tiltwheel. Fall Out Boy set our commenters up for an easy retort with their new single titled “I Don’t Care.” If you’re looking for new video content we had trailers for both a No Idea Records mini-documentary and The Clash‘s Live at Shea teaser.

This week we spoke with Matt Fox of Shai Hulud interview). Our Video of the Week featured legendary San Francisco punk group Flipper live at Amoeba Records. As always we brought you new Streaming Music including a full album stream from “femme fatale punk rock” act Civet. So what’s coming up this week? Look for releases from A Static Lullaby, Saint Alvia United Nations and Static Thought with tours kicking off from Wire (US / Canada), Street Dogs, Time Again and Flatfoot 56 (US) and Flogging Molly (US).
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