Posted on 2009-04-20 03:00:25
Artist/band(s):
Cock Sparrer [FB],
Comeback Kid [FB],
Earth Crisis [FB],
Green Day [FB],
Horrorpops [FB],
Nofx [FB],
Propagandhi [FB],
Tegan and Sara [FB]
Source:
http://www.punknews.org/article/33164
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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
This week we celebrated Record Store Day! We had our firend Stevo from
1-2-3-4 Go! Records give us his thoughts on the event, which is now in its second year. Alternative Press spoke with a
number of bands about their favourite stores, including the
Lawrence Arms,
Bouncing Souls, and
Dillinger Four.
Green Day unveiled
Know Your Enemy, the first single from 21st Century Breakdown, as well as the
lyrics and track listing for the full album. The band will celebrate the release with a club show at the
Bowery Ballroom on May 18th.
NOFX posted a new song from
Coaster. "
Creeping Out Sara" tells the story of Fat Mike meeting one Sara Quinn from
Tegan and Sara backstage at a festival in Germany.
iTunes' recent price increases went under the microscope recently, with Billboard reporting a
decrease in sales but an increase in revenue for higher priced tracks.
The Grammy Museum has announced plans for a premiere screening of
The Warped Tour documentary. The event will feature a discussion with tour head Kevin Lyman, director Jonathan Rach, and members of
Fishbone as well as a live performance by the
Phenomenauts.
Against Me! has plans to has reissue their first seven-inch
via Sabot Productions.
This summer
Dillinger Four will
tour throughout the Midwest beginning on June 4th.
The upcoming
Chaos In Tejas festival will feature bands like
Amebix,
Cro-Mags,
Cock Sparrer, the
Business,
Propagandhi, the
Thermals,
Career Suicide and
Brutal Knights among others.
This week saw a few interesting interviews come to life.
Asian Man Records impresario
Mike Park spoke about the recent
Lawrence Arms represses and more upcoming projects.
Mighty Mighty Bosstones singer
Dicky Barrett also spoke with
Adam Corolla.
I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain
New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives
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,
6,
7 and now
Episode 8 of
For Those Still Standing.
Our
Dispatches series of band tour blogs featured
Joey Cape,
Jon Snodgrass and Chad Rex (
Episode 3),
Comeback Kid (
Episode 1,
Episode 2).
This week we spoke with Gregg Gillis, best known to the music world under his stage name Girl Talk (
interview).
Our
Video of the Week featured a look at post-hardcore act
Make Do and Mend.
As always we brought you new
Streaming Music including
Minneapolis, MN based Photo Finish Records act
A Verse Unsung,
Cincinnati, OH's
Pomegranates,
the new full length from Kensington, CT's
My Heart to Joy,
Hotel Bible from Toronto's
Junior Battles,
and
Doylestown, PA's
War Pigs.
So what's coming up
this week?
Look for new releases from
Earth Crisis,
the
Breeders,
and
Westbound Train
with tours kicking off from
Shot Baker / Serf Combat (
UK),
Franz Nicolay /
Moneybrother (
US),
Outbreak /
Smartbomb (
UK),
the
Specials (
UK),
Russian Circles /
Sweet Cobra /
Lichens (
US),
Joe Lally / Gory Tellers (
US / Canada),
Mad Sin (
US),
the
HorrorPops (
US),
NOFX (
UK),
Shook Ones /
Red Tape Parade (
UK).
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