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By Michael Stittle (CHARTattack) November 29, 2005 1:57 pm
Poor INXS. In the late '80s, for a brief moment, they were the biggest band in the world, with a penchant for slick dance songs grounded in bluesy rock. But they stumbled in the '90s and grew stale, unable to evolve their sound. When singer Michael Hutchence died, that should have been the end. The band's new album, Switch is a sad attempt at...
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I Read The News Today... For Oct. 20, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) October 20, 2010 1:32 pm
The complete lineup for this year's M For Montreal is now up on the festival's website. Now you can plot out where to fit poutine into your schedule. Two new unreleased Weezer tracks have made their way online. Check 'em out here and here. Laura Marling (if you're outside the U.K., you're likely going, "Who?" right now) has topped NME's Cool List...
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20 Outlandish Rock Star Deaths

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) September 10, 2010 10:51 am
Deaths from overdosing are commonplace in the world of rock 'n' roll. But being hit in the head by a speedboat, choking on a ham sandwich or being shot to death on stage are far less commonplace. Former Electric Light Orchestra member Michael Edwards getting smushed last week was certainly a peculiar way to go out. So it got us thinking, "What...
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Killers Frontman, Rob Thomas, Tricky, Ben Harper On New INXS Album

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) February 25, 2010 2:55 pm
J.D. Fortune, while you were at the Vancouver Winter Olympics, INXS replaced you with The Killers' Brandon Flowers, Tricky, Ben Harper and Rob Thomas. Those vocalists are among the singers who will appear on INXS' first album since 2005's Switch. It's said to contain new versions of their hits with various people playing the part of the late...
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J.D. Fortune Appearing With INXS At Olympics Show

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) February 11, 2010 1:39 pm
We don't want to say this too loudly, but J.D. Fortune's, um, fortune seems to have taken a turn for the better. If you'll recall, the former INXS frontman made headlines last March for saying he was unceremoniously booted out of the band in Hong Kong, China, where he said he was left with only a handshake, and had been living in his truck ever...
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Fortune Wasn't Fired In Hong Kong

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) March 6, 2009 5:19 pm
J.D. Fortune wants to clear up some of the things he said last month about his split from INXS. For starters, he now says they didn't fire him at a Hong Kong airport and leave him with only a handshake. "To set the record straight, I was never given a handshake at an airport and said, 'Thanks a lot,'" Fortune told Sun Media....
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INXS To Record Without J.D. Fortune

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) March 2, 2009 12:39 pm
INXS will head back into the studio to work on new material without a singer. INXS business manager Chris Murphy told the Melbourne Herald Sun newspaper that keyboardist/guitarist Andrew Farriss and bassist Garry Beers have begun pre-production on the follow-up to 2005's Switch in Los Angeles. It's not known who will sing on the album,...
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INXS: We Didn't Fire J.D. Fortune

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) February 23, 2009 3:00 pm
INXS deny they fired former singer J.D. Fortune at a Hong Kong airport, as Fortune recently claimed. INXS creative director Chris Murphy (no, not that Chris Murphy) said the band were "shocked" by Fortune's allegations and claim that while Fortune (real name Jason Bennison) was no longer in the band, he hadn't been treated in such a...
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Fortune Invited To Stay With Rossi

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By Jason MacNeil (CHARTattack) February 20, 2009 2:28 pm
After reports earlier this week that INXS fired lead singer J.D. Fortune, it appears the Australian rock band might call it quits altogether. "The members are scattered all around the globe at the moment," band spokeswoman Chrissy Camp told Australia's The Daily Telegraph newspaper. "But I have tracked one of them down and he's...
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J.D. Fortune Becomes Fortuneless

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) February 18, 2009 1:57 pm
Former INXS frontman J.D. Fortune might want to consider changing his stage name, now that he's broke and homeless. Fortune (real name Jason Bennison), a native of Mississauga, Ont. who was raised in Pictou County, N.S., says he was fired from his job fronting INXS without warning over a year ago and is now living out of the back of a pickup...
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Pumping: INXS — Shine Like It Does The Anthology (1979-1997)

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By The Stereo (CHARTattack) December 5, 2008 6:59 pm
We're drinking. We're almost ready to go out for our staff dinner and there's a total stereo war right now. The reason? INXS. Fifty per cent of the office are this very second deep in a nostalgic haze. The rest of us just think their band members are shitty masturbators.
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INXS Irony

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By Steve McLean (CHARTattack) December 5, 2008 6:16 pm
INXS' Shine Like It Does: The Anthology is playing on the office stereo. The second song on disc one is titled "We Are The Vegetables." It's kind of ironic that Michael Hutchence died while pulling his carrot.
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Smell The Black Glove, JD

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Photographer: 
Richard Beland
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Massey Hall
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Toronto
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February 13, 2006

On The Road Again: INXS, The Game, The Creepshow And The Matadors

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By CHARTattack Staff May 3, 2006 5:30 pm
Veteran Australian band INXS and their Canadian singer JD Fortune played two shows at Toronto's Massey Hall in February, but they're going to see more of Canada starting next week. The reality show stars will play songs from their recently released Switch album as well as favourites from the Michael Hutchence era on a tour that will include...
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INXS Will Rock Canada Again

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By Allegra Shepherd (CHARTattack) February 8, 2006 6:00 pm
It's a lucky thing for Canadian INXS fans that the Aussie rockers have charismatic Canuck J.D. Fortune as their new frontman. Not only did it mean that Toronto was treated to two shows at Massey Hall earlier this week, but the band have also announced that they'll embark on a 12-stop cross-Canada arena tour in May. After the suicide of original...
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Fortune Impresses With INXS At MuchMoreMusic

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By Caitlin Hotchkiss (CHARTattack) November 28, 2005 5:30 pm
One had to only look at the audience members at MuchMoreMusic's Live With INXS special on November 25 to know who most of them were there to see. Given that the crowd was mostly made up of women between the ages of 18 and 35 — with a few bewildered older men (no doubt the remnants of the band's original fanbase) scattered here and there — it...
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INXS Play Live (Baby Live) In Toronto

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By Erik Missio (CHARTattack) April 25, 2002 4:00 pm
They're baaaaaack. When saxy INXS guitarist Kirk Pengilly and songwriter Andrew Farris came to Toronto last summer to promote the Shine Like It Does anthology, they promised that they would come to play Canada in the near future, so great was their love for this nation. Well, they've kept their promise. Sort of. INXS is indeed embarking...
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INXS — Shine Like It Does: The Anthology (1979-97)

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By Debbie Bento (CHARTattack) June 5, 2001 3:21 pm
It's quite amusing to witness INXS' gradual progression from underground mod/punk in the late '70s to early '80s. Kinda sounded like a really bad XTC cover band. INXS seemed lost, not sure about what direction the band would ultimately go in. Disc one records that amusing progression whereas disc two unloads with all the stuff we...
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