2:59

We’ve renovating this new house and it looks like it’ll eat up most of my spare time. In lieu of actually adding constructive content to Punknews, here’s a quick, dirty and completely biased sift through the news.

• Poor maligned Lookout Records are going to start digitally releasing rare and out of print material from their vaults. Personally I think it’s a brilliant idea, although it makes the label into a bit of a museum. Not a bad position for a company with Lookout’s history, mind you. Since someone out there must looking for material from Pot Valiant or Gene Defcon or the Splash Four and repressing those records would cost money that would never be recouped, having them available forever in a digital archive is a nice compromise.
• I love that White Flag, or at least someone in their camp, reads the site and sends their news in. I’d much rather post about Al Bum and Jello B. Afro than, say, My Chemical Romance, but the latter has a PR machine on their side that makes it so easy. I think more than any other “old school” punk band White Flag’s been the most savvy when it comes to us.
• …Unlike, say, T.S.O.L.. They broke up, by the way. Of course we only knew that because one of our readers stumbled across their MySpace site the day after it happened. Oh there were huge farewell shows, but the band’s own website and their label had zero news on it. We only had this story up in a timely manor because of luck.
• Of course we only talk about The Good, The Bad and The Queen because Paul Simonon’s involved. What’s it to you?
• Watch in amazement as the reunited Lifetime tests the limits of the credibility their posthumous beatification bought them.
• Are Electric Frankenstein wrapping things up? It sounds like that’s the plan.