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Ten Great Songs About Mom

Love her or hate her, see her once a year or unfortunately still dwell in her wood-paneled basement, Mother's Day, that one day a year where you salute your Mama for giving birth to you has come around once again.If you want to give your matriarch the gift that keeps on giving (and keep it cheap and cheerful) make her a CHARTattack endorsed mix CD...
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I Read The News Today... For Oct. 27, 2010

Here's a tip: don't slice up a tendon in your hand, especially if you play guitar. Devo have been forced to postpone all their upcoming tour dates for the rest of the year because guitarist Mark Mothersbaugh severed a tendon when a glass shard cut his right thumb through to the bone. Yeowch. Someone has deemed Die Antwoord's video for "Zef Slide"...
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Fourteen Reasons The Slits' Ari Up Was Cool

Ari Up, lead singer of British punk band The Slits, died yesterday after a "serious illness."Up (real name Ariane Forster) was only 48. It's not known what her cause of death was, but John Lydon announced it through his website yesterday. Rather than mourn and bemoan the cruellness of this woman's early passing, we here at CHARTattack prefer to...
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Nardwuar Vs. John Lydon

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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SXSW 2008

Photographer: 
Steve McLean
Venue: 
Various Venues
City: 
Austin, TX
Date: 
March 14, 2008
 The Slits

The Slits Are Wreaking Their Revenge

The Slits had a brief but influential career, as they were one of the first all-female punk groups. They formed in 1976 and broke up five years later, but original members Ari Up and Tessa Pollitt returned to the studio together last fall to record the first new Slits material in 25 years. Those sessions resulted in the three-song EP, Revenge...
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