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Primal Scream's Toronto Return

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By Cameron Gordon (CHARTattack) March 25, 2009 1:29 pm
On paper, Primal Scream shouldn't have lasted five years, let alone 25. And yet the band have endured for over a quarter-century, led by the primordially cool and perpetually po-faced Bobby Gillespie. The band's ability to evolve their sound over time is equalled only by their ability to metabolize drugs, and the outfit's hard-rocking appearance...
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Primal Scream — Beautiful Future

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By Cameron Gordon (CHARTattack) July 22, 2008 9:28 am
Primal Scream are one of the more fluid rock bands in recent times, having shifted from jangle rock to rave to Stones' style butt rock to trip-hop to quasi-industrial, and back. Beautiful Future falls somewhere amid all these genres but still bears a lot of trademark Primal Scream ornamentation. The title track might be the best representation of...
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Ten Great Anti-Monarchy Songs (To Capitalize On Royal Wedding Fever)

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By Michelle McGlynn (CHARTattack) April 28, 2011 2:21 pm
It doesn't really matter whether you're against the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton because you think it's a gross waste of resources, you're an anarchist, or because you're vehemently opposed to state-recognition of unions and monolithic institutions, because the future King Britain and his bride are getting hitched at London,...
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I Read The News Today... For Nov. 23, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) November 23, 2010 3:27 pm
American girls! You'll be able to start swooning over Jacob Hoggard and his chest tattoos when Hedley release their The Show Must Go album on Dec. 7 south of the border. It's the first album they've put out in the States. Nickelback and Theory Of A Deadman won SOCAN Music Awards for radio airplay last night. Wait... they were in the same room? You...
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I Read The News Today... For July 13, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) July 13, 2010 1:32 pm
Women have made "Eyesore," the first single from their upcoming Public Strain sophomore album, available for free download. Morrissey's Bona Drag singles compilation will be reissued on Sept. 27. —NME Here's quite possibly the nerdiest collaboration we've heard of in a while: Ben Folds and High Fidelity author Nick...
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Shane MacGowan And Friends — "I Put A Spell On You"

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By CHARTattack Staff February 26, 2010 1:36 pm
Shane MacGowan recruited some of his pals like Johnny Depp, Nick Cave, Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie and Mick Jones to help him record a version of Screamin' Jay Hawkins' "I Put A Spell On You" for Haiti earthquake relief efforts. Here's a video of them all cutting the tune.
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Shane MacGowan, Nick Cave, Johnny Depp, Primal Scream Frontman On Haiti Single

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) January 28, 2010 12:27 pm
Shane MacGowan's known for having had (he got new ones last year) extremely bad teeth, Johnny Depp's played a pirate with atrocious dental work and Nick Cave sings about baring one's teeth, so perhaps that's the common bond that brought these three together to record a charity single for Haiti. Of course, all three celebrities also have...
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Primal Scream Working On New Album

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) January 22, 2010 4:58 pm
Psychedelic Brit-rock holdovers should be happy to know Primal Scream are working on a new album. Former Stone Roses bassist and current Primal Scream four-stringer Gary "Mani" Mounfield told NME.com the band have started writing songs for the follow-up to 2008's Beautiful Future and will work on it for the rest of 2010. "This...
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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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SXSW 2009 - Thursday

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Photographer: 
Steve McLean
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Cedar Street Courtyard
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Austin, TX
Date: 
March 19, 2009
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SXSW 2009: Black Lips Day Three

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By Steve McLean (CHARTattack) March 20, 2009 9:11 am
I'm on a quest to hear great music until the first few days of spring at the South By Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas, and I intend to do it without spending a penny on food. Here's the report from my third day in the live music capital of the world: I missed getting on the SOCAN boat cruise, with its free sandwiches and beer, by a...
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Primal Scream To Play Toronto

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) December 15, 2008 3:03 pm
Primal Scream will return to Toronto in March. Singer Bobby Gillespie, guitarist Andrew Innes, bassist Gary Mounfield, keyboardist Martin Duffy and drummer Darrin Mooney will play the Phoenix Concert Theatre on March 24. The show is in support of this year's Beautiful Future, the band's ninth studio album. The follow-up to 2006's Riot City...
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Leeds Festival 2006 Day Two

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Joe Fuda
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Bramham Park, West Yorkshire
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Leeds, UK
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August 26, 2006
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Primal Scream Have The Riot City Blues

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By Phil Villeneuve (CHARTattack) April 6, 2006 5:30 pm
One of the U.K.'s most unpredictable bands, Primal Scream, are ready to surprise again with their forthcoming album, Riot City Blues. There's no confirmed North American release date yet, but the new effort will come out on June 5 in the U.K. via Columbia. The follow-up to 2002's electronic dance-heavy Evil Heat sees the Scottish quartet...
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Primal Scream's Revolving Door

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By Keith Carman (CHARTattack) October 30, 2002 4:30 pm
"Sometimes it's just people we've met or friends," says Primal Scream's Martin Duffy about the multiple guest artists on their latest album Evil Heart. "Robert Plant plays harmonica on it. We always see him, he lives near our studio. He loves his music and we got talking to him. We thought it would be great, so we asked him and he...
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Primal Scream Plan To Exterminate Canada

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By CHARTattack Staff April 7, 2000 2:30 pm
Primal Scream, those British anarchists with an addictive musical beat, will tentatively be releasing their sixth album, XTRMNTR, in North America on May 2. And to coincide with the release of their album next month, the band will be hitting Toronto for a club gig at The Guvernment on May 30. There is no ticket information as of yet, but the...
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Today's Tidbits: Warrant Out For DMX And Much More...

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By CHARTattack Staff March 23, 2000 5:30 pm
DMX SKIPS COURT APPEARANCE A warrant has been issued for the arrest of rapper DMX, (a.k.a. Earl Simmons) after he skipped out on his court appearance, scheduled for Wednesday, March 22. The possible excuse for missing the trial is that the rapper was performing a show at the Compaq Center in Houston that night. He has been accused of speeding,...
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