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By Hannah Guy (CHARTattack) September 12, 2007 3:32 pm
Directed by: Anton Corbijn Starring: Sam Riley, Samantha Morton, Harry Treadaway "It's black and white. It's not very fast. It's about the '70s." And thus director Anton Corbijn succinctly introduced the film festival audience to his debut full-length feature. And it's an accurate summation. Unless you've been living in a Nike shoebox...
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Joy Division: The Movie

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By Kevin Ritchie (CHARTattack) September 10, 2007 2:21 pm
JOY DIVISION (Real To Reel) Directed by: Grant Gee Although Joy Division delves into the back story of one of rock's most influential and beloved bands, British music video director/cinematographer Grant Gee largely focuses on the short, tormented life of the group's ghostly-pale lead singer, Ian Curtis. Mixing archival performance footage,...
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I Read The News Today... For June 14, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff June 14, 2011 3:48 pm
Tom Hanks' production company is going to make a movie out of Green Day's American Idiot musical, which basically ensures it's going to be the least punk rock thing ever, even with Billie Joe Armstrong starring in it. Thurston Moore is going to be teaching writing classes at the Jack Kerouac School Of Disembodied Poetics, which is not a fake place...
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I Read The News Today... For May 19, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) May 19, 2011 3:49 pm
People! The Sheepdogs made the final round of Rolling Stone's choose the cover contest! Clear your fucking cookies like crazy and go vote like crazy over here! Hey! Apparently the world is ending on Saturday (what a damper on your long weekend)! So CHARTattack contributor Steve McLean has made the perfect playlist for you. Montreal singer/...
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I Read The News Today... For May 9, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) May 9, 2011 4:10 pm
The Trews are opening for Kid Rock this summer. It might not seem like east coast hard rock would go with southern rap rock, but this actually makes perfect sense in our brains. D-Sisive and Muneshine are working on a gangsta rap album as The Birthday Boys. Consider this advanced warning. Check out the godawful cover art for Limp Bizkit's new...
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I Read The News Today... For May 3, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) May 3, 2011 3:56 pm
Holy shit! Eve 6 are back! If you can't remember who they are or just plain don't know, please watch the video below to familiarize yourself. Slipknot vocalist Corey Taylor says if the group's upcoming tour doesn't work, "Slipknot might be over." Yet drummer Joey Jordison says the band will always exist "with Corey or without him." I...
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I Read The News Today... For April 20, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) April 20, 2011 3:00 pm
If you've been waiting over three years to hear some falsetto folk crooning, you won't have to much longer: Bon Iver's self-titled sophomore album is out June 21. First Rusty reunited... now SIANspheric have reunited. Or will reunite on May 14 to play a show with stoner rockers Quest For Fire in Hamilton, Ont. —Facebook Diamond Rings has signed...
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Peter Hook Playing Joy Division's Closer Live, Releasing Four-Song Joy Division Covers EP

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 7, 2011 2:18 pm
When former Joy Division and New Order bassist Peter Hook played some gigs last year in which he performed Joy Division's classic 1979 Unknown Pleasures debut album in entirety, you had to figure that wasn't going to be the only time he reworked his former band's glories. Hooky's now set to play the band's final studio album, 1980's Closer, at...
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The Grist 13 And Shitty 7 — February 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) February 9, 2011 5:46 pm
The Grist 131. Sega Toilet Video GamesNobody will ever accuse Sega engineers of having piss poor imaginations. 2. The Dears' Degeneration StreetIt's their best album since their last album!3. ThundersnowHow is this not a metal band's name yet? 4. Epic Meal Time Gets A TV ShowThis is a cooking show I can respect.5. Charlie Sheen...
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I Read The News Today... For Dec. 13, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) December 13, 2010 5:41 pm
Dallas Green has announced his first ever Australian tour with his City And Colour project. He'll head down under in April. —cityandcolour.ca A Place To Bury Strangers have remixed Holy Fuck's "Red Lights." Hear a whole bunch of screaming, distorted guitars overtop of it below: Julie Doiron's announced a brief tour of the Maritimes, Ontario...
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I Read The News... For Nov. 25, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) November 25, 2010 2:22 pm
In today's installment of "Oh, dear God, please don't let this happen," Peter Hook says he's going to re-record several Joy Division tracks for a four-song EP with his new band The Light and Happy Mondays singer Rowetta. Ian Curtis just rolled over in his grave. —Slicing Up Eyeballs Korn's Jonathan Davis says he wants to be able to do drugs again...
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I Read The News Today... For Oct. 21, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) October 21, 2010 1:35 pm
Looks like 102.1 The Edge and Dean Blundell are in some trouble again. The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council said Wednesday that comments Blundell made suggesting Justin Bieber was "gay" and that his fans were "likely 12 years old" violated part of the council's "equitable portrayal code" because they had "inappropriately sexualized children."...
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I Read The News Today... For Sept. 14, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) September 14, 2010 12:32 pm
Econoline Crush have just released a greatest hits collection, Surefire: The Best Of. It's got 14 of their hits from 1994's Purge to 2008's Ignite. —EMIWashington, D.C. post-punks The Dismemberment Plan will reunite for a short tour that'll take place in January. Hipsters, here's your opportunity to school yourselves on a band who are infinitely...
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Don't Look Back (In Anger): Arcade Fire And Radiohead Do New Order

Submitted by Edward Skira on Thu, 07/15/2010 - 9:59am
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By Edward Skira (CHARTattack) July 15, 2010 9:59 am
Yesterday I took a look at my favourite New Order song "Age Of Consent". Today we feature Arcade Fire's version. This was recorded at the Heineken Music Hall in Amsterdam back in 1997. A so so version as the power of the original is gone. Doesn't help the quality of the recording is subpar. And to finish this Joy...
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Don't Look Back (In Anger): "Warsaw" By Joy Division

Submitted by Edward Skira on Tue, 07/13/2010 - 9:39am
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By Edward Skira (CHARTattack) July 13, 2010 9:39 am
At the time, I thought the 1970s sucked musically (my feelings for the '70s have changed over time, especially after having lived through the 1980s). I was a big fan of the 1960s. Harmonies, melodies and psychedelic music was my thing and the '70s didn't represent any of that. All I kept hearing was hard rock, prog rock and the...
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I Read The News Today... For May 20, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff May 20, 2010 12:57 pm
Students in Macclesfield, England, are writing a Joy Division-inspired symphony as a tribute to late singer Ian Curtis, who committed suicide 30 years ago this past Tuesday (May 18). —BBC News A public memorial for the late Ronnie James Dio will be held on May 30 in Los Angeles. —MTV News Mick Jagger would like drugs to be legalized on Britain'...
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Eleven Of The Worst Albums To Get Stoned To, A 4/20 Special

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By CHARTattack Staff April 20, 2010 11:09 am
11) LOU REED Metal Machine Music Lou Reed is one of modern rock's most admired singer/songwriters and his early music with The Velvet Undergound is lax enough to give someone whacked out of their mind a wonderful soundtrack. This double-album, however, comprised solely of grinding guitar feedback performed at different speeds, has got to...
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Thom Yorke's Atoms For Peace Cover Joy Division In California

Submitted by Kate Harper on Fri, 04/16/2010 - 1:48pm
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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) April 16, 2010 1:48 pm
Most people wouldn't call Joy Division one of Radiohead's biggest influences, seeing as Thom Yorke's sometimes falsetto voice sounds absolutely nothing like Ian Curtis and Radiohead's music is far from minimalistic. But they do have similar demeanors. But that didn't stop Yorke's Atoms For Peace project — which includes Red Hot Chili Peppers...
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Today In Music History: Joy Division Make Live Debut As Joy Division On Jan. 25, 1978

Submitted by Kate Harper on Mon, 01/25/2010 - 11:47am
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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) January 25, 2010 11:47 am
Joy Division played their first live gig under their new moniker on this day in 1978. The band were briefly called Stiff Kittens after they formed in 1976, but soon changed their name to Warsaw as a tribute to David Bowie's "Warszawa." After playing live under the Warsaw moniker for a few months, the band decided they didn't want to...
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Gavin Rossdale Covering Joy Division On Criminal Minds

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) November 11, 2009 2:20 pm
Gavin Rossdale is going goth.... for TV, at least. The former Bush frontman and Gwen Stefani's husband will appear on Wednesday's (Nov. 11) episode of Criminal Minds. He'll play Dante, a goth rocker and murder suspect who Rossdale told the Chicago Now website is also a "junkie" and "very upset with life." Rossdale will also...
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