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Obama Campaign releases Spotify playlist, seals 2012 election

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By Jordan Darville (CHARTattack) February 9, 2012 6:05 pm
Part of the reason why Barack Obama is so popular with the youth is that he looks like the kind of President who understands that an MP3 isn’t a new kind of predator drone. Well lo and behold, the Obama 2012 Campaign have released a Spotify playlist, perfect for releasing stress after all of the idiotic photo ops you’re forced to do. Expect the...
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Auto-Tuned Barack Obama Explains How He's Going To "Kick Ass" Over BP Oil Spill

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) June 10, 2010 3:51 pm
The folks behind Auto-Tune The News have created a video for a new single called "Ass Kick," in which Barack Obama explains how he's dealing with BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The solution's pretty simple: Experts. Something tells me Tinky Winky and Mr. T would do a better job solving this crisis than anyone at any major think tank...
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Paul McCartney, Jack White, Dave Grohl, Barack Obama Sing "Hey Jude" At White House

Submitted by Kate Harper on Fri, 06/04/2010 - 2:54pm
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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) June 4, 2010 2:54 pm
Here's further evidence that our friends south of the border now have a way cooler leader than us. Sure, we used to mock Dubya all the time and most Canadians weren't really onside with 99.9 per cent of the things his administration did, but those days are over. These days, Barack Obama's in power south of the border, and he's holding...
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Obama: "Kanye West Is A Jackass"

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) September 15, 2009 11:03 am
Kanye West's outburst during Taylor Swift's speech at Sunday night's MTV Video Music Awards is officially a national concern south of the 49th parallel because now even U.S. President Barack Obama has commented on it. Obama called West a "jackass" on Monday when asked about what he thought of the whole bruhaha during an interview with...
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Obama Welcomed With Song And Concerts

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By CHARTattack Staff January 15, 2009 2:29 pm
A free download of a Barack Obama-inspired song will be made available on Friday to complement the Of Great And Mortal Men: 43 Songs For 43 U.S. Presidencies box set that was released last September. "Someone To Wake" was written by project lynchpin Christian Kiefer and Centro-Matic/South San Gabriel frontman Will Johnson. "It was...
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Manson Asked To Play For Obama?

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) November 11, 2008 11:53 am
Evan Rachel Wood says ex-boyfriend Marilyn Manson was going to play a show to back Barack Obama's presidential campaign, but she talked him out of it. In an interview with E! Online at Sunday's Behind The Camera Awards, she said she told 39-year-old Manson (real name Brian Warner) that he shouldn't perform in support of the Illinois senator, but...
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Jeffrey Lewis: "A Quick Biography Of Barack Obama"

Submitted by Kate Harper on Thu, 11/06/2008 - 1:02pm
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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) November 6, 2008 1:02 pm
If you were at the Los Campesinos! show in Toronto this May, you may have seen Jeffrey Lewis and his band The Jitters open the gig. Lewis included songs like "The Complete History Of Punk Rock And Its Development On The Lower East Side, 1950-1975" and part three of "The Complete History Of Communism." Both featured projections...
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Thom Yorke Offers Remix

Submitted by Kate Harper on Thu, 11/06/2008 - 11:04am
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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) November 6, 2008 11:04 am
Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has made a remix of "Harrowdown Hill," a track from his 2006 The Eraser solo album, available to stream at his band's website. In a post he made yesterday, Yorke writes the following: "in celebration of nov 5th "jonnys [Greenwood, guitarist] burthday "amid bonfire and fireworks in the UK...
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Dead Reunite For Obama

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) October 15, 2008 10:24 am
The four surviving members of the Grateful Dead took to the stage for the first time since their 2004 reunion tour to play a show in support of U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Monday night. Guitarist Bob Weir, bassist Phil Lesh and drummers Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann played Obama's "Change Rocks" fundraiser...
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Obama And Layton Are Artist-Friendly

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By Steve McLean (CHARTattack) September 24, 2008 1:52 pm
Barack Obama broke fundraising records in his bid to win the Democratic presidential nomination. Now he's selling records to rake in more cash for his battle against Republican rival John McCain. Yes We Can: Voices Of A Grassroots Movement has just gone on sale in CD and download form at the online Obama Store. The album features 18 songs by...
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