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I Read The News Today... For June 7, 2011

The Jimmy Swift Band have broken up. But don't cry! Vocalist Craig Mercer and keyboardist Aaron Collier are still making music as Scientists Of Sound and are touring in support of their new Wealth & Hellness album. M83's next album is going to be a double LP. It's going to be about dreams. Makes sense, since I fall asleep while listening to...
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John Lydon Predicted Battle Of Seattle, Rap-Rock

Nostradamus, Anthony Carr and Uri Geller are some well known psychics and "seers," both living and dead. You might as well add John Lydon to that list. Why? Well, Lydon says he predicted the "Battle Of Seattle," or the protests about the World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference in November 1999, in Public Image Ltd.'s...
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Nardwuar Vs. John Lydon

Nardwuar: Who are you? John Lydon: [Laughs] I'm John Lydon. I'm half a century young and looking good at it. And John, PiL (Public Image Ltd.) are back on the road. Who's in PiL these days? Bruce Smith on drums, Lu Edmonds on various sorted of instruments from the Middle East, including a guitar for those who like western twangs, and Scott (...
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John Lydon Reunites Public Image Ltd., Disses Liam Gallagher

John Lydon — who's perhaps better known as Johnny Rotten — has reunited Public Image Ltd., his post-Sex Pistols band, and has spoken out about Oasis' recent split. Public Image Ltd. will play a series of shows in December to celebrate the 30th anniversary of 1979's Metal Box. Lydon, Damned guitarist Lu Edmonds, bassist Scott Firth and ex-Slits...
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Now See Here!: John Lydon Hearts Country Life

Not content to just make money from Sex Pistols reunion tours, John Lydon (better known as Johnny Rotten) has done an advert for Country Life butter. You can see it here:   Anarchy, my butt.
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Is John Lydon Racist?

John Lydon, who's perhaps better known as Johnny Rotten, has been called many unpleasant things, but now Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke is accusing Lydon of an unprovoked racist attack on him. But Lydon says Okereke caused the incident and is just jealous of his success. Okereke says he was socializing backstage at the Summercase Festival in...
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John Lydon: Iconoclastic Talent Contest Judge

John Lydon is currently garnering attention for his contribution to Bodog Music's Battle Of The Bands reality television series, in which more than 7,000 hopeful acts will be pared down to one who will win a $1-million recording contract. But the former Sex Pistols/Public Image Limited frontman, who's probably best known to the world as Johnny...
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Johnny Rotten, Billy Duffy And Bif Naked Announce Bodog Battle Of The Bands

No longer just the end product of a Bovine Sex Club patron's crude fantasies, this past Friday former Sex Pistols/PIL frontman John "Johnny Rotten" Lydon, The Cult guitarist Billy Duffy and singer Bif Naked shared the stage of Healey's in Toronto to announce that a rocker talent search will come to Canada for a 10-date tour in May that...
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