It's Sunday, September 23rd, 2007. Now that the Canadian dollar has reached parity with the greenback we can reverse the brain drain of Canuck talent to the States. That goes for Punknews editors too. Chris, Brian, Justin, Meg: come home to Tuktoyaktuk. Your mother misses you.
The people must have something good to read on a SundayI've had to train myself not to read the associated comment threads, but it's always a fun week when the
Sex Pistols are back in the news. Despite their recently announced 30th anniversary show the big story didn't actually come from the band Canadian telco Bell caused a controversy by running an ad featuring a "
Belsen Was a Gas" pin, which they quickly pulled considering the reference. Johnny didn't let the spotlight waver for long though, turning heads by
lambasting Sting and the recently reunited
Police. Late era
Ramones drummer Richie emerged from obscurity this week, suing the estate of Johnny Ramone, Apple, Wal-Mart and Real
over use of his songs. We had more
tour dates for the
Lawrence Arms,
American Steel, the
Falcon and
Sundowner tour, with news that Eli Catere of the
Smoking Popes would be
playing guitar for the Falcon. Tom Delonge talked up the new
Angels & Airwaves record and his
30 year plan to change the world. The band released their new video for
"Everything's Magic" this week as well. There were
more details revealed on the recent scuffle between Brent Hinds of
Mastodon and
System of a Down bassist Shavo Odadjian. A high school student was
suspended for hanging an
All Time Low poster, as men in underwear are potentially the greatest threat to the American education system. This week also had news of a
Kid Dynamite tribute compilation, a discussion of
Fall Out Boy's
Invisible Children benefit video, and scant details on a
new EP from
AFI. Finally we had a few updates from former Island acts
Thursday and
Thrice. The former detailed their
"Kill the House Lights" collection while the latter previewed a
pair of songs from their next. This week featured a chat with East Bay Ray of the
Dead Kennedys (
interview). Our
Video of the Week featured part three of our video countdown to the Fest 6. This week we checked out the some footage of the
Pink Razors. The ninth edition of
Vinyl File featured the first part of two part look at the vinyl out put of modern punk favourites the
Alkaline Trio and previewed lots of upcoming wax. We also streamed new music from
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