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Hello everybody and welcome to your all-new all-different 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:

• Alkaline Trio announced tour dates in February and March with Cursive
• The Warped Tour confirmed that Polar Bear Club, Sum 41, Fake Problems, the Swellers, Every Time I Die and Motion City Soundtrack would participate this year
• We saw the trailer for the upcoming Runaways film, starring Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning as members of the proto-punk act
• We had word that the Graves-era Misfits are set to open for Danzig at an upcoming show
• Dan Yemin of Paint It Black started a music and parenting blog
• Our buddies in O Pioneers!!! survived a van flip

With that we hand over this Sunday evening to you, the Punknews community. From that glorious, likely bearded rabble we've see the creation of everything from message boards and Punknews fantasy sports leagues to even a band or two. So talk amongst yourselves and we'll see you Monday…

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In the past few weeks we spoke with a number of bands. Don't miss out on these interviews:

• Mike Reed, Ben Reed, Travis Dopp of Small Brown Bike
• Keith Buckley of Every Time I Die
• Adam Turla of Murder by Death
• Chuck Robertson of the Mad Caddies
• Kurt Ballou of Converge
  
  Throughout the month we've been posting Best of 2009 lists from our friends in the punk world. We talked with members of bands like Shai Hulud, Gatorface, Silverstein, Off With Their Heads, Moneen, the Loved Ones, Smoke Or Fire, None More Black, NOFX, Less Than Jake, Hot Water Music and many, many others. Hit up the search page for the full list of links.
  
  We also posted our first set of Punknews staff Best Of Lists, this edition featuring our intrepid volunteer reviewers. Look for the editors' lists on the 29th.

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We've constantly amazed by the interactions we have with people elsewhere on the internet, be it that you visit other websites out there, and we know it can be tough to leave the calming blue glow of the `Org, so we'll help by infecting the rest of the web with Punknews content:

• We love getting your feedback via Twitter
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• Come hang out at the Punknews Facebook fan page or group
• Contribute your listening habits to the weekly charts at our Last.fm group
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• Any high quality video we shoot can be found at Vimeo

Your trusty Punknews staffers and reviewers have all sorts of projects on the go, everything from poorly spelled and oft neglected blogs to big official world domination schemes. Make sure to check out Bryne Yancey's podcast What We Hate, Rich Verducci's podcast Sound Scene Revolution, Chris Moran's band footage at Vimeo, Jesse Raub's writings at Ghettoblaster and Intelligentsia, Justin August's tumblog at JustinAugust.org and Adam White's tumblog at AdamWhite.org.

Of course your day wouldn't be complete without knowing every inane detail of your humble editors' lives. Follow @adamwhite, @jesseraub, @justinaugust, @brian_shultz, @bconoley, @dante3000 and @bryneyancey's every move at Twitter.

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Check the Punknews Music page to stream all sorts of new music from recent or upcoming releases. Our latest additions include:

• the recent full length from Jacksonville, FL's Whaleface
• the Verona Records EP from Toronto's I Am Committing A Sin
• a new full length from Tallahassee, FL's Friends of Friends
• the new EP from Brooklyn's the Reveling
• the new record from Los Angeles' Calculator
• the new full length from Toronto's The Roman Line

Also don't forget to check out a split 7-inch featuring pop-punk bands Transit and Man Overboard, the new full length from Fulton, NY-based Another Breath, new material from Halifax, Nova Scotia's Sleepless Nights, an EP from Detroit, MI's A-Gang and Dead To Me's new full length African Elephants, You can find much more on the Punknews Music page.

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We've been making a lot of changes over at Punknews HQ, and we are as excited about today's announcement as we have been about any other over the past month. With Punknews continuing to grow, we realized we needed some more help. Thus, we turned to our good friend and longtime community member, Dante 3000, legally known as Richard Verducci. Rich will be coming on board as our new Interview Editor. Rich is an experienced interviewer through his long-running podcast Sound Scene Revolution. He's got a great stable of writers who will continue to write insightful interviews with some great bands. In related news, I (Ben Conoley) will be taking up the new position of Managing Editor. You might not see my name on as many articles, but I'll be kicking around.

As always, thanks for reading. Feel free to welcome Dante, er, Rich, in the comments section.

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expatiate: to speak or write at length.

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More Best of 2009 lists! This time, we've got lists from Matt Fox of Shai Hulud, Wauz Kenobi of Red Tape Parade and The Sandwiches, and Felicia Risolo of Epitaph Records.

Check out Best of 2009 lists from members of Less Than Jake, Hot Water Music, Rehasher and more here: Best Of 2009 Lists. Also, don't forget to check out our staff reviewers' lists, and be sure to come back on Tuesday for lists from the Punknews.org editors.

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The Village Voice has created a list of the fifty worst songs of the decade, including entries from James Blunt, Xiu Xiu, Nickelback, Weezer, Beastie Boys, and Crazy Frog. Counting Crows took the number one slot with their cover of "Big Yellow Taxi," but the Voice also had beef with brokeNCYDE and used some inflammatory language, which has been included here for posterity's sake:

Bands like brokeNCYDE and electro-doofus earthstains like 3OH!3 are essentially excuses for rich white kids to play dress-up with the most sexist and materialistic elements of hip-hop--pretty much a minstrel show in crooked haircuts.

You can view the entire list here, at the bottom of their entry for number one.

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Growing weary yet? Hopefully not, as the barrage of best of lists continues today with lists from Scotty of The Sandwiches and Death to False Hope Records, Bryan Quilty of Gatorface and Alexander Hudjohn, formerly of Anchor Down and now a soon-to-be accomplished solo artist.

Check out Best of 2009 lists from members of Less Than Jake, Hot Water Music, Rehasher and more here: Best Of 2009 Lists. Also, don't forget to check out our staff reviewers' lists, and be sure to come back on Tuesday for lists from the Punknews.org editors.

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Some more Best of 2009 lists to sate your Christmas comas today. We've got lists from Aaron Danger of Team Science Records, Dave Garwacke of If You Make It, Halo Fauna, Kudrow and a slew of other bands, and James Austin of Anchor Arms.

Check out Best of 2009 lists from members of Off With Their Heads, Hot Water Music, Rehasher and more here: Best Of 2009 Lists.

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The Best of 2009 train rolls on today. This time around, we've got lists from Billy Hamilton of Silverstein and Jordan Baker of Pastepunk, as well as a collective list from the members of Laura Stevenson and the Cans.

Check out Best of 2009 lists from members of Less Than Jake, Hot Water Music, Rehasher and more here: Best Of 2009 Lists. Also, don't forget to check out our staff reviewers' lists, and be sure to come back on Tuesday for lists from the Punknews.org editors.

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To keep you entertained and mired in discussion, we're going to forgo the Saturday hibernation that's become the norm around here and give you several more lists from members of your favorite bands and labels. First up, we've got lists from Ian Graham of Cheap Girls, Alex Goldfarb of Gatorface/No Friends/New Mexican Disaster Squad and Chris Vandeviver of Sakes Alive!!

Check out Best of 2009 lists from members of Less Than Jake, Hot Water Music, Rehasher and more here: Best Of 2009 Lists. Also, don't forget to check out our staff reviewers' lists, and be sure to come back on Tuesday for lists from the Punknews.org editors.