Posted on 2009-04-06 03:00:29
Artist/band(s):
Atmosphere [FB],
Bad Religion [FB],
Beastie Boys [FB],
Flogging Molly [FB],
Gallows [FB],
Green Day [FB],
Jimmy Eat World [FB],
Left Alone [FB],
Minor Threat [FB],
MxPx [FB],
Napalm Death [FB],
Neko Case [FB],
Propagandhi [FB],
Rancid [FB],
Rise Against [FB],
Street Dogs [FB],
Thursday [FB],
X [FB]
Source:
http://www.punknews.org/article/32974
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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 community talking this week...
The People Must Have Something Good To Read On A Sunday
This week's most popular stories
Anti-Flag has finished their major label experiment and has returned to the indie world by
signing to SideOneDummy. The band will release The People or the Gun on the label on June 9th.
Rancid has
titled their new full length Let The Dominoes Fall. The record, their first since 2003, will arrive on June 2nd. The band further detailed the
track listing this week as well.
Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong discussed their ambitions for their new record
21st Century Breakdown. The band also discussed the
musical based on American Idiot that's currently in the works.
Boston Hardcore act,
Death Before Dishonor has
re-signed to Bridge Nine Records and is working on completing their next full length.
Jimmy Eat World have plans to digitally release a
live album recorded at the Tempe, Arizona date of the recent Clarity Tour.
While plenty of bands have upcoming releases, the
Aquabats are
struggling with their future. Having been released from Nitro Records the band mused that "its time we all roll up our sleeves and decide to either pack it up and call it quits, OR by some miracle of hard work and perseverance ...we ... persevere!"
The
Bouncing Souls recently had a little bit of tour trouble, having come up against
an erupting volcano the form of Mount Redoubt.
Greg Graffin of
Bad Religion was interviewed on his upcoming mainstream book that discusses
religion and naturalism.
Blink-182's Travis Barker is working with
rapper Busta Rhymes on a song for the upcoming Transformers film.
Tom Gabel of
Against Me! had a revealing
interview with Chris Hannah of
Propagandhi.
The
Beastie Boys streamed their upcoming remaster of
Check Your Head this week.
This week we said goodbye to Little Type Mailorder co-owner
Erika Hynes.
I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain
New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives
Our annual April Fools prank involved the unveiling of
Punknews.com, a website straight out of 1996 with
MIDI music, animated gifs and scrolling text.
Punknews.org is proud to continue publishing road journals from
Mike Hale (
Gunmoll,
In The Red). Having packed up his belongings, moved out of his apartment, and committed himself to living as a touring musician, Mike has some tales to tell. Check out
Episode 1,
2,
3,
4,
5 and now
Episode 6 of
For Those Still Standing.
Our
Video of the Week featured footage of a
Minor Threat cover band that included members of the
Riverboat Gamblers,
Rise Against,
Gallows, and
MxPx.
As always we brought you new
Streaming Music including
Long Beach, CA-based
Adam's Dagger,
the new EP from Vancouver's
Living with Lions,
a new record from Albany's
After the Fall,
and
Volume 2 from
Mike Hale of
Gunmoll's latest band
In The Red.
So what's coming up
this week?
Look for new releases from
Beastie Boys (reissue),
Bob Mould,
Jimmy Eat World (live),
Left Alone,
the
Thermals
and
the
Hold Steady (live)
with tours kicking off from
World/Inferno Friendship Society (
US / Canada),
Neko Case (
US / Canada),
Atmosphere / Attracted to Gods /
POS (
US / Canada),
Bridge and Tunnel (
Europe),
X (
US),
Napalm Death / Toxic Holocaust /
Trap Them (
US),
Flogging Molly /
Street Dogs /
Civet (
Japan),
Thursday (
Europe),
and
Against Me! /
Off With Their Heads (
US).
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