Posted on 2009-04-27 03:00:19
Artist/band(s):
311 [FB],
88 Fingers Louie [FB],
Avenged Sevenfold [FB],
Beastie Boys [FB],
Black President [FB],
Comeback Kid [FB],
Green Day [FB],
Lou Reed [FB],
Mike Ness [FB],
Neko Case [FB],
Nofx [FB],
Rise Against [FB],
Rivers Cuomo [FB],
Social Distortion [FB],
Testament [FB],
Unearth [FB],
Vanna [FB]
Source:
http://www.punknews.org/article/33263
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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 was another week of Scandinavian music piracy stories. Many of you wrote in regarding the Pirate Bay trial in Sweden, in which the four founders of the popular BitTorrent tracker were found
guilty of promoting copyright infringement. Meanwhile over in Norway a study suggested that
pirates buy ten times more music than those who never participate in file sharing.
The 2009
Lollapalooza festival will feature bands such as
Rise Against, the
Beastie Boys,
Neko Case, the
Constantines, the
Gaslight Anthem,
Deerhunter and
Lou Reed among many others.
88 Fingers Louie (minus Joe Principe) are set to
reunite in August.
This week also had pointed words for popular punk/glam metal act
Avenged Sevenfold, who were called a "
gimmick" by
Avenged Sevenfold.
Against Me! is planning to release The Original Cowboy via Fat Wreck Chords. The record features
never-before-heard demos for the As The Eternal Cowboy album.
Face To Face is in the studio recording a
Rise Against cover for an
upcoming split.
311 have revealed the
track listing for their upcoming album Uplifter.
NOFX are streaming their upcoming album
Coaster. They also
performed tracks acoustically on MySpace's Transmissions.
Green Day posted a video for their new single
"Know Your Enemy." The band also announced a
May 16th performance on SNL along with their upcoming
tour routing.
The
Bronx also unveiled their video for
"Knifeman."
Finally
Social Distortion's
Mike Ness joined up with a
PETA campaign against factory farming.
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,
8 and now
Episode 9 of
For Those Still Standing.
Our
Dispatches series of band tour blogs featured
Comeback Kid (
Episode 4,
Episode 5), and
Bridge and Tunnel (
Episode 1).
This week's
Editors' Picks recommended music from
Disguster.
As always we brought you new
Streaming Music including
the new full length from Allston, MA's
Kill Conrad,
and
Austin, TX's
Broken Gold (members of the
Riverboat Gamblers.
So what's coming up
this week?
Look for new releases from
NOFX,
Mike Hale,
So Many Dynamos,
and
Rivers Cuomo (live)
with tours kicking off from
Bouncing Souls / the
Loved Ones /
Black President (
US),
Fake Problems /
William Elliott Whitmore (
US),
the
Human Abstract,
Vanna,
Oh, Sleeper (
US),
Virgins (
UK),
and
Testament /
Unearth (
US).
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