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Roger Waters Revives Pink Floyd Once Again

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By Bryan Borzykowski (CHARTattack) September 21, 2006 4:30 pm
There's no question as to who the genius (after Syd Barrett) behind Pink Floyd is. Without Roger Waters there'd be no Wall, no Wish You Were Here, and a whole generation of mushroom ingesting hippies would have never discovered the power of hallucinogens. As a performer, however, Rogers is slightly above average. The guy's just a bass player,...
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I Read The News Today... For May 13, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) May 13, 2011 2:32 pm
Holy shit! Deadmau5 is coming back to North America and he's playing stadiums! It's like gigantic raves all over again... except not! The fifth annual "put the boot in" charity soccer match will be held during the North By Northeast Music Festival in Toronto on June 19. It will pit media personalities against musicians at Allan Lamport Stadium...
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Bon Jovi, Roger Waters, Dave Matthews Band Were 2010's Top Touring Acts

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) January 4, 2011 1:47 pm
It's getting harder and harder to make a living recording music and heading out on the road to support it. But if you're Bon Jovi, Roger Waters or the Dave Matthews Band, touring in 2010 was a piece of cake. According to Pollstar, Bon Jovi made a whopping $108.2 million U.S. (about $108 million Canadian) on tour in 2010, which basically means the...
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Roger Waters Tour Kick-Off Proves How Important The Wall Is

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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) September 16, 2010 1:50 pm
Somewhere amidst the arrival of the giant inflatable "Mother," the none-too-subtle animated film showing war planes carpet-bombing suburbs with Christian crosses, Islamic crescents and stars, Jewish Stars of David, plus Shell and Mercedez-Benz logos, and the graffiti-style scrawl of "Big Brother Is Watching You" splayed across the literal giant...
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Iranian-Canadian Band Remake Pink Floyd's "Another Brick In The Wall"

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) August 6, 2010 11:07 am
Toronto rock band Blurred Vision have a clear message for Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: "Leave those kids alone." The band have reworked Pink Floyd's 1979 classic "Another Brick In The Wall," replacing Roger Waters' "Hey, teacher, leave those kids alone," with "Hey, Ayatollah, leave those kids alone....
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I Read The News Today... For July 14, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff July 14, 2010 2:47 pm
Hot Hot Heat will spend the fall touring Canada. Dine Alone R.E.M. have finished recording their 15th studio album in Berlin, Germany. It should be out this fall. Rolling Stone Trivia A.D.'s David Oliver has compiled the ultimate Seinfeld soundtrack. Relive "The Pony Remark," "The Soup Nazi," "The Chinese...
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I Read The News Today... For May 6, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff May 6, 2010 1:04 pm
The Polaris Music Prize's long list of 40 titles will be revealed on June 17, while the short list will be unveiled July 6. Both events will be held at Toronto's Drake Hotel, while the winner of the 2010 Polaris Music Prize will be revealed during a gala at Toronto's Masonic Temple on Sept. 20. —polarismusicprize.ca Jane's Addiction debuted a...
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Roger Waters Wants Wall To Fall In Israel

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) June 3, 2009 4:06 pm
Former Pink Floyd singer/bassist Roger Waters says he'd be willing to play a show in Israel — so long as it takes its security fence, which runs through parts of the West Bank, down. Rogers visited the Ayda refugee camp in the West Bank, which is part of the Occupied Palestinian Territories. He says he'd be willing to play a show that would echo...
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Roger Waters — In The Flesh Live

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By Tim Melton (CHARTattack) December 12, 2000 9:12 am
With this double live CD document of Waters' last tour, the ex-Floyd bassman and his 10-piece band lay out practically every tune you'd want to hear — from the entire Floyd catalogue and Waters' solo ventures with a staggering degree of musicianship. In The Flesh works even without the light show and stands tall against Gilmour,...
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