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My weekly Navel Gazing summary at Punknews is often accompanied by an image that may have little to no actual connection with the content of the article. It’s fun and nonsensical, and on rare occasions may have a hidden meaning to me or the other editors. In fact there’s an inexplicable trend of us using [...]

While on the surface a stopgap between Let It Bloom and whatever’s arriving this September, this live album will prove remarkably important to the Black Lips when their story’s finally written. It’s the bridge between the Atlanta band’s status as a critically acclaimed underground act and whatever spectacular success or failure awaits them. Vice may [...]

This is a frustrating album. Oh it sounds wonderful, but I can’t get past the bewildering song choices on the punk godmother’s cover project. The songs Smith interprets here aren’t only classic — they’re iconic. These are songs that, for the most part, I wouldn’t want my favorite bands to ever think of covering. I [...]

I absolutely love stories like this, when something from current affairs headlines has some tertiary facet that Punknews can jump on. I wasn’t even paying attention to the fact that someone leaked the government’s climate change plan. The news that there was a leak at all was overshadowed by the fact that the plan’s [...]

Adam: Adam’s been listening to Bikini Kill all morning. He’s so in touch with the kids these days.
Brian: clearly
Adam: I’m the voice of a generation right here.
Brian: maybe we can set up a new feature
Brian: Adam and the Kids
Brian: every post of it is you saying “Fuck ‘em.”
Adam: Maybe “What’s cool with the Kids by [...]