It's Sunday September 2nd, 2007. Well this
is called Navel Gazing, so let's talk Punknews. After literally years of debating the issue we finally took the plunge this weekend and disabled anonymous commenting. From here on, only registered users can post comments. You can find the
full explanation and initial reaction in our announcement. A lot of you have asked if this was the result of any one single band complaining to us, and it wasn't. It's more an effort to pull our staff from the brink of going mad like Colonel Kurtz in
Apocalypse Now. That's just bad for productivity.
The people must have something good to read on a SundayYet another piece of punk history was lost this week, as
Hilly Kristal of legendary scene-fostering New York City venue CBGB died at age 75. His club of course helped launch the careers of the
Ramones,
Television,
Patti Smith and many others. To add to the retrospective mood, Time Magazine launched a multimedia feature
celebrating the 30th Anniversary Of Punk.
Against Me! continues to support the
New Wave juggernaut, performing "Stop"
live on the Late Show, releasing a
digital EP and announcing the rest of their fall tour. Now the Gainesville act has some nutty fans, but hopefully they're less sensitive than those of
Fall Out Boy and
My Chemical Romance. The guyliner was flying when both acts missed out on
Kerrang! awards. There was a different type of drama in the
I Am Ghost camp, as the band revealed the
religious conflicts that lead to their recent lineup shift. There were lots of news on the touring front this week. The
Bouncing Souls announced a handful of
fall tour dates while
Less Than Jake charted out a
globe trotting few months in the UK, Japan and Australia.
Hellogoodbye,
Say Anything and Japan's
Polysics will soon embark on the
Myspace Tour. Out on the
mainstream pop punk front you'll find
Fall Out Boy,
Gym Class Heroes,
Plain White T's and
Cute is What We Aim For. How about some new music?
American Steel continued their triumphant return with the killer
Sons of Avarice" while
Jimmy Eat World previewed their new full length
Chase the Light and
Angels & Airwaves teased "
Everything's Magic."
Every Time I Die also unveiled their video for "
We'rewolf."Our
Video of the Week featured
Dead To Me performing at last year's edition of The Fest. The sixth edition of
Vinyl File featured a chat with No Idea Records head Var Thelin and previewed lots of upcoming wax. We also streamed new music from
Arsonists Get All The Girls latest full length
The Game of Life,
Young Livers, which features members of Glass and Ashes, Fiya and Towers of Hanoi,and half of the new full length from Toronto ska-punks the
Flatliners.
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