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Lollapalooza Day Two With RATM

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) August 6, 2008 2:48 pm
Lolla's hump day is often the toughest slog, but two things prevented that this year. First, the humidity held off for one afternoon, and a cool breeze from the lake was a welcome respite from Friday's heat assault. Second, there was nothing worth seeing before 2:30 p.m. — just an iPod commercial band, two kids who are friends with Karen O and a...
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I Read The News Today... For July 21, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) July 21, 2011 3:06 pm
Adele, Kanye West and Katy Perry lead the nominees for this year's MTV Video Music Awards. Odd Future's Tyler, The Creator is also up for an award, and apparently "cried" when he heard about his nomination. Awww. See, guys? Homophobic misogynistis have feelings, too. Gwar's Oderus Urungus used to periodically appear on Fox News' late night Red Eye...
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I Read The News Today... For June 3, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) June 3, 2011 3:09 pm
Thrice are returning with a new record dubbed Major/Minor on Sept. 20. It's described as "entirely different" than their last album, which is a relief because if a band literally released the same record over and over again, that'd be kind of, you know, awkward. Angry at mom and dad? Got a lot of xxxaggro bullshitxxx to take out on people you'll...
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I Read The News Today... For Feb. 22, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) February 22, 2011 3:45 pm
Halifax indie rockers Dog Day will release a new seven-inch mini-album, The Scratches EP, on March 22. They're heading south of the border to promote it in March. —dogdaymusic.com Man, does Sam Roberts' new record ever sound like it's gonna be hippie. Well, I mean, everything he's done so far is pretty hippie, but this one mixes his classic rock-...
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Prodigy's "Smack My Bitch Up" Declared Most Controversial Song Of All Time

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) November 24, 2010 1:52 pm
It seems people find domestic violence and misogyny more offensive than gay sex, anti-monarchism, drug use, murder, abortion, copious use of the word "fuck," suicide, atheism and the medical experiments at Auschwitz. The Prodigy's "Smack My Bitch Up" has been voted the most controversial song of all time in a new poll by Britain's Performing...
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I Read The News Today... For July 15, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff July 15, 2010 12:10 pm
Amy Winehouse's album will reportedly be out by January at the latest. Hey, have you also heard I'm the Queen Of England?! —Metro Rush have released an iPhone and iPod Touch application. It'll cost you a mere $2.99 U.S. ($3.11 Canadian) —Blabbermouth We Were So Turned On, a David Bowie tribute album featuring A Place To...
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I Read The News Today... For June 29, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff June 29, 2010 1:26 pm
Kanye West's hilariously titled Good Ass Job is out Sept. 14. —Billboard In the meantime, 'Ye's been sued for copyright infringement over the lyrics to "Power," which Chicago rapper Vincent Peters says were stolen from him. —Chicago Breaking Business Vince Neil was apparently wanted by police for questioning in relation to a camera-...
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I Read The News Today... For June 7, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff June 7, 2010 1:43 pm
Against Me! recorded a Daytrotter session last week in Rock Island, Ill. Two of the tunes are from their upcoming fifth album, White Crosses, which is out tomorrow. —Daytrotter Tegan And Sara, Scarlett Johansson, Amanda Palmer and Holly Miranda are among those covering Steel Train on an all-females covers album that's due out June 29. —Paste...
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I Read The News Today... For May 27, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff May 27, 2010 11:19 am
Hey Rosetta! are travelling to China for the Shanghai World Expo in August. —MySpace Music videos from Zeus, Gentleman Reg, Hannah Georgas, Coldplay, Metric, Massive Attack, K'Naan and LCD Soundsystem will be screened on June 5 as part of the Worldwide Short Film Festival in Toronto. —worldwideshortfilmfestival.com Billy Talent have been...
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I Read The News Today... For April 29, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff April 29, 2010 12:38 pm
Flaming Lips multi-instrumentalist Steven Drozd was hospitalized on Wednesday (April 28) for unknown reasons, prompting the band to cancel gigs in West Palm Beach, Fla. and Memphis. He reportedly just needs "some rest." —Pitchfork The Cure have offered up a previously unreleased demo of "Delirious Night," a track recorded...
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Rage Against The Machine Confirm Free London Show

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) February 12, 2010 12:08 pm
Rage Against The Machine are frequently on politicians' cases for not keeping their word, so when the band promise something, they make good on it. Rage said they'd play a free show in London, England if their "Killing In The Name" took the U.K. Christmas #1 single spot over The X Factor's Joe McElderry, and they'll make good on that...
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Rage Against The Machine Take Xmas #1 On British Singles Charts

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By Jason MacNeil (CHARTattack) December 21, 2009 2:08 pm
What started as a lark for two Rage Against The Machine fans on Facebook has earned the band the top spot on the British singles charts this week. Rage Against The Machine's "Killing In The Name" edged out X Factor winner Joe McElderry's cover of Miley Cyrus' "The Climb" on the U.K. singles charts. That means Rage Against...
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Rage Against The Machine — "Killing In The Name" (Live On BBC Radio 5Live)

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By CHARTattack Staff December 18, 2009 5:39 pm
Rage Against The Machine performed "Killing In The Name," their 1992 single that's part of a U.K. charts battle against X Factor winner Joe McElderry, on BBC Radio 5 on Wednesday (Dec. 16). DC3 Music Group LLC filmed the band playing the song at a Burbank, Calif. soundstage. A brief interview about the charts campaign and the Facebook...
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Paul McCartney Backs Rage Against The Machine In U.K. Charts Battle

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) December 18, 2009 4:38 pm
Paul McCartney says he supports Rage Against The Machine in the battle for the U.K. #1 Christmas single. The announcement comes as a surprise, considering McCartney will perform on The X Factor with the television program's winner, Joe McElderry, on Sunday (Dec. 18). "I like the idea of this Rage Against The Machine thing that's happening...
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Tom Morello, Prodigy, Stereophonics Support Rage X-Mas Single Campaign

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By Mark Teo (CHARTattack) December 15, 2009 4:57 pm
The U.K. campaign to topple X-Factor's Christmas single, Joe McElderry's cover of Miley Cyrus' "The Climb," continues. But now, it's received the support of several high-profile backers. A few weeks ago, we reported that a grassroots group was petitioning to make Rage Against The Machine's "Killing In The Name" the top...
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Simon Cowell Calls Rage Against The Machine Chart Campaign "Stupid"

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) December 11, 2009 11:47 am
The X Factor producer Simon Cowell says the campaign recently launched to make Rage Against The Machine's "Killing In The Name" the #1 single on the U.K. charts over Christmas is "stupid." A Facebook group urges its members to download Rage Against The Machine's "Killing In The Name" on Sunday (Dec. 13) to stop The...
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Rage Against The Machine Could Have U.K. Xmas #1

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By Mark Teo (CHARTattack) December 4, 2009 12:18 pm
If we're to believe 1984's corniest holiday song, "Do They Know It's Christmas?" the yuletide season is political. Bono, Duran Duran and Kool And The Gang — who were all participants on the single — know this. As it turns out, so do Rage Against The Machine fans. U.K. fans of the rap-metal group have set up a Facebook group...
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Tom Morello Used To Be A Stripper

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) November 3, 2009 2:49 pm
Hey, kids. Just for the record, a Harvard degree might not get you employed right away when you're finished with school. Tom Morello knows that much, since the Rage Against The Machine guitarist and former Audioslave member says he worked as a male stripper after he graduated from Harvard University with a bachelors of political science degree...
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De La Rocha Rages Against Arpaio

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By CHARTattack Staff March 4, 2009 1:30 pm
Rage Against The Machine and One Day As A Lion frontman Zack De La Rocha was one of the leaders of a Phoenix, Ariz. protest against Maricopa County Sheriff (and DMX nemesis) Joe Arpaio and his enforcement of federal immigration laws against Latinos on Saturday. "Without the proper warrants, he raids the homes and workplaces of janitors and...
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Rage Against The Machine At The Phoenix

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Photographer: 
Richard Beland
Venue: 
The Phoenix Concert Theatre
City: 
Toronto, ON
Date: 
October 7, 1999
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