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I Read The News Today... For July 6, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) July 6, 2011 2:59 pm
Cuff The Duke are playing a free show in Guelph, Ont. with Constantines' Bry Webb, hometown folk rockers Your Neck Of The Woods and singer/songwriter Donovan Woods. It goes down July 16 at the alley behind the Red Brick Cafe on Douglas Street from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Music writer Lorraine Carpenter is heading on a mini tour of Ottawa, Toronto and...
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I Fought The Law... For The Week Ending June 17, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) June 17, 2011 3:09 pm
The Gallagher brothers have pretty bad tempers, but would they ever send someone a bullet through the mail? (Okay, maybe they might do that to each other, but...) Liam Gallagher's bodyguard is being accused of doing just that. A Paris bar covered in Jim Morrison's image may be forced to close because the band doesn't approve of its owner hanging...
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I Fought The Law... For The Week Ending June 10, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) June 10, 2011 3:38 pm
Who knew it was possible to get in trouble for "disturbing the habitat of local manatees"? Can't people give Sean Kingston a break? I mean, the guy drove a jet ski into a bridge. Courtney Love is being sued by a New York security company that says she owes them $58,000 U.S. (about $56,700 Canadian) for two years' service. Isn't this the third time...
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I Read The News Today... For April 29, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) April 29, 2011 3:39 pm
Of course it would only be natural that Neutral Milk Hotel's Jeff Magnum would stop being a recluse by doing something like scoring music for a mind-controlled instrument designed by The Apples In Stereo's Rob Schneider. Of course. It's only natural. (Even though a mind-controlled instrument is kinda, you know, not natural?) The Donnas on a...
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I Read The News Today... For Dec. 20, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) December 20, 2010 3:01 pm
Wintersleep's Paul Murphy has made two unreleased songs from his Postdata project available for free download as a special holiday present. You can get them here.In case you still care about them, Panic! At The Disco will release a new album called Vices And Virtues in March. —Alternative Press Paramore drummer and guitarist Zac Farro and Josh...
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Floria Sigismondi Talks About Making The Runaways

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) July 20, 2010 4:08 pm
The Runaways, the feature film about the first all-girl rock 'n' roll band of the same name, is in stores on DVD and Blu-Ray on Tuesday (July 20). The film stars Kristen Stewart (Twilight, Adventureland) and Dakota Fanning (Twilight, I Am Sam) as Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, respectively, two of the band's members. It follows their...
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Nardwuar Vs. John Lydon

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By CHARTattack Staff April 21, 2010 10:02 am
Nardwuar: Who are you? John Lydon: [Laughs] I'm John Lydon. I'm half a century young and looking good at it. And John, PiL (Public Image Ltd.) are back on the road. Who's in PiL these days? Bruce Smith on drums, Lu Edmonds on various sorted of instruments from the Middle East, including a guitar for those who like western twangs, and Scott (...
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The Runaways Trailer (With Twilight's Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning)

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By CHARTattack Staff December 17, 2009 5:33 pm
Here's the trailer for The Runaways, the upcoming biopic about the '70s all-woman punk group of the same name. The film stars Kristen Stewart (Twilight, Adventureland) as Joan Jett and Dakota Fanning (Coraline, The Secret Life Of Bees) as Cherie Currie. It's being directed by Canada's Floria Sigismondi. The Runaways opens in theatres March 19...
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Dakota Fanning: Runaway

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) March 6, 2009 4:14 pm
Fifteen-year-old actress Dakota Fanning has signed on to play Cherie Currie in a film about all-female rock group The Runaways. Currie was 15 when she joined The Runaways with guitarists Joan Jett and Lita Ford, drummer Sandy West and bassist Micki Steele (who was briefly replaced by Peggy Foster before Jackie Fox took over) in 1976. The film...
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"Twilight" Chick To Play Joan Jett

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) December 3, 2008 4:47 pm
Somebody must figure that Kristen Stewart is pretty tough, since she played a teenager in love with a vampire in Twilight. Now she'll soon be playing super tuff rocker Joan Jett. Stewart has been cast as the female punk rocker in The Runaways, a biopic about Jett's first band, which will be written and directed by Canadian music video director...
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Toronto's Floria Sigismondi To Direct Film About The Runaways

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By CHARTattack Staff April 19, 2007 5:30 pm
Toronto visual artist and music video director Floria Sigismondi will write and direct a movie about the influential all-female '70s rock 'n' roll group, The Runaways. Sigismondi, the wife of Living Things frontman Lillian Berlin, has directed videos for The Raconteurs, Christina Aguilera, Billy Talent, Leonard Cohen, David Bowie and Marilyn...
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