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…

Popular political punks Anti-Flag have announced a series of shows in London, Berlin, and Vienna that will see the Pittsburg-based act performing Clash covers.

The Misfits are set to return with their first new studio material since 2003 with their Land of the Dead 12″ .

Blink-182’s much loved Enema of the State full length is set to receive a

vinyl release a decade after the fact via Mightier Than Sword Records.

Apple this week countered rumours that had been swirling about their new iTunes LP format. The company has confirmed that the format will be open to both major and indie labels and that the enhanced digital releases would carry not production fee.

Weezer launched a new subscription iTunes pass for their upcoming album, providing a
Clash cover as part of the bonus content. Frontman Rivers Cuomo also announced plans to collaborate with Katy Perry.
Panic Records has signed a pair of new bands, including
Hartford, CT’s Hostage Calm and Syracuse, NY’s Another Breath.

The Riot Before released a new
acoustic EP for free download.

Jon Cougar Concentration Camp plans to cover the
entirety of Screeching Weasel’s My Brain Hurts on their new LP.

Tom Waits announced plans to release a two-disc live album in November.

Japan and Malaysia will soon witness the

MxPx All-Stars featuring MxPx singer/bassist Mike Herrera backed by The Ataris‘ frontman Kris Roe on guitar and the Summer Obsession’s Chris Wilson on drums.

Against Me!, Alexisonfire and Billy Talent will tour
Canada.

No Use For A Name are headed to
Indonesia, Malaysia, China, and Japan.

Less Than Jake has
a number of upcoming shows with bands like the Swellers, Fishbone, and Casualties.

NOFX is headed south to
Mexico, Panama, and Costa Rica.

This week saw video of a Dillinger Four
house show in Tempe, AZ.

Rancid unveiled their clip for
“Up To No Good.”

New Found Glory also posted
“Don’t Let Her Pull You Down.”

This week we said goodbye to Brendan Mullen (1949-2009), founder of historic Hollywood punk club The Masque.

This week we spoke with

Jeff Dean of The Bomb (interview),

singer Ty Vaughn of Broadway Calls (interview),

bassist Ryan of Defiance, Ohio (interview),

and

Matt Tobey, Ginger Alford and Mike Harpring Jr. of Good Luck (interview).

Our Dispatches series of band blogs featured British singer-songwriter Mike Scott, currently on tour with Kevin Seconds (Episode 3).

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As always we brought you new streaming music from some great up and coming bands, including

the new full length from Scranton, PA’s Captain, We’re Sinking,

new music from Pittsburgh’s American Armada,

and

10 songs from new Red Scare act the Reaganomics.

So what’s coming up this week?

Look for new releases from

Chad Price,

Converge,

Failure’s Union,

Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine,

Star Fucking Hipsters,

the Slits,

the Reaganomics

and many others.

We’ll also see a number of tours kick off this week. Look for upcoming shows from

Green Day (UK),

Bouncing Souls with Bayside and Broadway Calls (US),

the Damned (US),

Propagandhi with The Rebel Spell (Canada),

Bad Brains (US),

and

Thrice with The Dear Hunter and Polar Bear Club (US).

Click Read More to check out our ongoing contests, new streaming music, social networking links and more.

originally posted on PunkNews.org