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I Read The News Today... For July 15, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) July 15, 2011 4:13 pm
Trent Reznor would like you to know that the reissue of Nine Inch Nails' Pretty Hate Machine is a "bullshit" record label move. So he doesn't want you buying it. OK? Stephen Malkmus would like you to come up with another word for "blowjob" here, and the winner will get their lyric recorded by him and a seven-inch single.Swans are working on...
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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 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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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 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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I Read The News Today... For Sept. 9, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) September 9, 2010 11:23 am
Arts & Crafts will reissue Captured Anthems For An Empty Bathtub, which will contain the two EPs by Kevin Drew and Charles Spearin's pre-Broken Social Scene band K.C. Accidental, on Oct. 26. It'll be available in double-LP and CD formats, as well as a digital download. —Arts & CraftsHedley will release a live CD/DVD, Go With...
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Peter Hook Repeatedly Forged Ian Curtis' Autograph

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) October 6, 2009 2:12 pm
If you've got late Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis' autograph, there's a chance it's not genuine. Why? Former Joy Division and New Order bassist Peter Hook says he used to forge Curtis' signature, has conned Joy Division obsessives and collectors and those who sell memorabilia and passed his version of Curtis' signature off as the real thing....
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Freebass Album Coming Soon

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) July 30, 2009 11:39 am
Freebass — the three-bass supergroup that consists of former New Order member Peter Hook, ex-Smiths bassist Andy Rourke and Primal Scream bassist Mani — have finished their debut album, which is now being mixed. Hook made a MySpace blog entry on July 21 in which he wrote about the album. He will sing two songs on the album, while Haven's Gary...
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New Order, Blur Members Form Bad Lieutenant

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) June 15, 2009 1:01 pm
Who needs Peter Hook? The members of New Order have formed a new band called Bad Lieutenant with Blur's Alex James on bass. New Order and Bad Lieutenant singer/guitarist Bernard Sumner told BBC Newsbeat the quartet's album should be out in October and they've already recorded it. "I'm very proud of it, it's a very good album,"...
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New Order Become No Order

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By CHARTattack Staff May 4, 2007 4:30 pm
New Order are no more, according to bassist Peter Hook. In an interview with Britain's Xfm radio station this week, Hook revealed that he was no longer working with vocalist/guitarist and longtime musical partner Bernard Sumner, and that they had no intention of getting back together. "Bernard went off for a break with Electronic [Sumner...
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Peter Hook Writing Book, But Questioning Involvement In Ian Curtis Film

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By CHARTattack Staff November 28, 2006 5:00 pm
New Order bassist Peter Hook is writing a book on his experiences in the "Madchester" music scene and is supposed to be contributing music to the Ian Curtis biopic that's now in production, but he's become upset with director Anton Corbijn. Hook's book is tentatively titled How Not To Run A Club. It will focus on the infamous...
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