Posted on 2009-06-01 03:00:15
Artist/band(s):
311 [FB],
Alexisonfire [FB],
All Time Low [FB],
Bad Religion [FB],
Billy Talent [FB],
Brand New [FB],
Darkest Hour [FB],
Mastodon [FB],
Ramones [FB],
Rancid [FB],
Rise Against [FB],
Set Your Goals [FB],
Sky Eats Airplane [FB],
Social Distortion [FB],
Taking Back Sunday [FB],
This Time Next Year [FB],
Wilco [FB]
Source:
http://www.punknews.org/article/33767
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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...
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This week's most popular stories
A new album from
Rancid is an event to be sure, and there was no shortage of news from their camp this week. The new album
Let The Dominoes Fall was unveiled to the public with a stream on MySpace this week. The band's upcoming tour partners
Rise Against also had some
kind words to say about the popular East Bay punks act.
Also this week legendary producer Phil Spector, famous for his "wall of sound" production technique and work with bands from the Ronettes to Tina Turner to the Beatles to the
Ramones, was sentenced for murder this week. Spector was found guilty of murdering actress Lana Clarkson, and is set to serve
19 years to life.
Hopeless act
All Time Low is set to release Nothing Personal this July and
detailed the record this week.
Polar Bear Club announced the
title and release date of their sophomore full length, titled Chasing Hamburg.
Brooklyn, NY's
The Brass (featuring members of
On The Might Of Princes and
Latterman) have announced the release of their
upcoming 7".
The
Bouncing Souls premiered the first volume of their
20th Anniversary TV Spectacular.
A Wilhelm Scream posted a
studio clip of them working on their upcoming EP.
On the tour circuit look for
Brand New on the road
in the US soon. Look for a
summer tour featuring
Anchor Down,
In The Red and
Bastards Of Young.
Social Distortion have added some
US and Canadian dates supported by
Civet and the
Strangers.
Fake Problems will also be
on the road with Kiss Kiss and
Ninja Gun.
This week brought new audio from
Sky Eats Airplane with their cover of nu-metal relic "
Nookie." Speaking of covers
William Elliott Whitmore performed a cover of
Bad Religion's
"Don't Pray On Me" from their 1995 album Recipe For Hate.
This week we said goodbye to multi-instrumentalist, producer and former member of
Wilco (
Jay Bennett (1963-2009).
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Our
Dispatches series of band blogs featured Rochester, NY's
Sakes Alive!! as they prepared their new EP (
video intro).
This week we spoke with Roger Manganelli of
Rehasher (
interview), and Zach Byrne and Andy Kavanaugh of
The Goodnight Loving (
interview).
So what's coming up
this week?
Look for new releases from
Dave House,
311,
Rancid,
Spinnerette,
Subb,
Taking Back Sunday
with tours kicking off from
All Time Low and
Set Your Goals on the
Take Action Tour Australia,
This Time Next Year / A Loss for Words (
US),
Rise Against /
Rancid /
Riverboat Gamblers /
Billy Talent (
US / Canada),
Lemuria (
UK),
Dillinger Four (
US),
Darkest Hour (
US / Europe),
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