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By Hannah Guy (CHARTattack) March 13, 2001 12:37 pm
Ah, glorious St. Paddy's day, where the floor is covered with beer puddles and the ale is an unholy shade of green. And this year, I have two new drinking CDs tucked under my arm — The Mahones' Here Comes Lucky and The Pogues' The Very Best Of... This latest comp from the grunge kings of Eire features a healthy sampling of the bands' previous five...
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I Read The News Today... For April 5, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) April 5, 2011 3:09 pm
Dinosaur Jr. are playing their 1988 Bug album in entirety early this summer. And OMG! Fucked Up will join them at the New York date. —Pitchfork Bedouin Soundclash have released a special single called "Here I Am Featuring The Saint James Music Academy" today through iTunes. It was recorded in September and proceeds from the single will go towards...
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I Read The News Today... For Dec. 14, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) December 14, 2010 3:20 pm
You know all those people who were stranded on Highway 402 near Sarnia, Ont. yesterday? Apparently Tricky was one of them. —Toronto StarCameron House co-owner Paul Sannella, who'd been running the Toronto venue since 1981 when he bought the building and turned it into an art space and bar, has passed away. —NOW Magazine After Muse frontman Matt...
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I Read The News Today… For Sept. 3, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) September 3, 2010 12:45 pm
Calgary's Michael Bernard Fitzgerald is taking his folky tunes across most of western Canada with LIGHTS this fall. —Facebook "Radioactive," the first single from Kings Of Leon's new Come Around Sundown album, is out Oct. 12. It's out the following week in North America. —Sony Music How's this for bizarre:...
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I Read The News Today... For Sept. 1, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) September 1, 2010 11:57 am
Clothes Make The Man are offering a free download of "Dreamless Nights," which aired on Degrassi: The Next Generation. —clothesmaketheman.org LIGHTS is hardcore. No, seriously: Hatebreed's Jamey Jasta and Gallows have remixed two of her songs, which are available on iTunes now. All proceeds are going to The Greater New Orleans...
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Shane MacGowan, Wife To Star In Cooking Show

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) February 26, 2010 2:12 pm
I used to be pretty obsessed with the Food Network (that was until I moved into a place that had no cable and couldn't watch it anymore...), and I've been on a major Pogues kick lately. But regardless how much I might like those two things, I still can't imagine Shane MacGowan hosting a cooking show no matter how hard I try. In fact, I can...
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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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The Beauties — "Fairytale Of New York" (Live Pogues Cover)

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By CHARTattack Staff December 25, 2009 8:01 am
The Beauties covered The Pogues' classic "Fairytale Of New York" at the Andy Kim's Christmas Show at Toronto's Mod Club earlier this month. Here's a video of it. Check out this video of Broken Social Scene performing Brendan Canning's "Love Is New" at the Andy Kim Christmas show here.
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Shane MacGowan, Wife Starring In Gardening Show

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) November 30, 2009 2:54 pm
Shane MacGowan is known more for drinking, getting in trouble while drinking and having bad teeth because of his drinking than he is for anything remotely horticulturally-related. But nonetheless, the Pogues frontman is set to host a gardening documentary with his wife, Victoria Mary Clarke. According to Spinner, Victoria And Shane Grow Their Own...
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Pumping: The Pogues — If I Should Fall From Grace With God

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By The Stereo (CHARTattack) July 17, 2009 11:24 am
This is perfect for a Friday. Why? Well:
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Shane MacGowan Gets New Teeth

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) May 22, 2009 5:12 pm
Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan finally has new teeth. MacGowan — who's famous for his hard partying, alcoholism and what used to be a gigantic gap in his top front teeth that he acquired after he fell over a wall and smashed his mouth on bricks while boozing — was recently in Malaga, Spain to get a brand new set of teeth, according to Britain's...
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Divorce Is A Good Thing For Pogues/Hothouse Flowers Project, PreNup

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By Jason MacNeil (CHARTattack) July 31, 2007 4:30 pm
There are hundreds of reasons why bands decide on names, but PreNup seem to have taken things a step beyond the norm. The Irish band feature Hothouse Flowers members Fiachna O Braonain (guitar, vocals) and Dave Clarke (drums, vocals) and former Pogues member Cait O'Riordan (bass, vocals), the ex-wife of Elvis Costello. According to the band's...
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The Pogues Might Return With New Album This Year

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By Jason MacNeil (CHARTattack) January 16, 2007 10:30 am
The Pogues have done a series of brief reunion shows in Britain and North America in recent years, but expect to see some new material from the Celtic rock band on the horizon. According to an interview posted on lead singer Shane MacGowan's website, there's talk of the group hitting the studio again. "I'm better than ever, and so is...
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The Pogues' First Five Albums To Be Reissued With Bonus Tracks

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By Steve McLean (CHARTattack) July 7, 2006 5:00 pm
Celtic punk didn't exist before The Pogues introduced it in the early '80s. Now, younger music fans who weren't around back then but have since latched on to the likes of the Dropkick Murphys and Flogging Molly will now have a chance to discover the pioneers of the genre with Rhino's forthcoming reissue of the group's first five albums. The...
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