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The Streets — Everything Is Borrowed

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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) September 16, 2008 5:10 pm
Mike Skinner intends to make our heads explode. Just when we had him pegged as an almost loveable fuck-up composing drug 'n' drink narratives about losing money in the back of one's television (A Grand Don't Come For Free) and brilliant eviscerations of the rock star lifestyle (The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living), he up and pulls this swerve....
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The Streets Makes An Easy Living Look Way Too Easy

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By Gabe Kastner (CHARTattack) June 26, 2006 4:30 pm
When you take into consideration the themes Mike Skinner tackles on The Streets' new album, The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living, the California/tropical holiday vibe was appropriate for Friday night's show at the Phoenix. An orange and black palm tree print graced the drapery as well as the uniformed T-shirts of Skinner's backing band. Two...
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The Streets — The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living

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By Matt Semansky (CHARTattack) April 11, 2006 10:26 am
Mike Skinner's previous albums sketched out his adventures as a drug-addled, apathetic British kid on a sonic canvas that used elements of hip-hop, garage and techno. On this latest disc, the ambitious production remains, but the Skinner story has moved on to another act, with the unlikely pop star having to deal with the ups and downs of fame. If...
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The Streets — A Grand Don’t Come For Free

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By Jason Richards (CHARTattack) May 11, 2004 3:01 pm
Well, it’s definitely an acquired taste. We’ve got the completely undisguised, no-attempt-at-sounding-"urban" English accent, the no-regard-for-rhythm cadence, the weird time signatures of most of the beats (from the Strokes-ish "Fit But You Know It" to everything else, it's rare to hear any traditional kick, snare, kick, snare...
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I Read The News Today... For Feb. 7, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) February 7, 2011 5:58 pm
Toronto singer/songwriter and former Local Rabbits member Peter Elkas will release a new album entitled Repeat Offender on Feb. 22 through Joel Plaskett's New Scotland Records. He'll be on the road promoting it in March. —peterelkas.com Mike Skinner has officially retired The Streets. We're sad, so we're going to go listen to every Streets album...
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I Read The News Today... For Jan. 27, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) January 27, 2011 2:01 pm
Toronto's Dinosaur Bones will release their My Divider debut album on March 8 through Dine Alone. It was produced by Jon Drew, who's handled discs by Tokyo Police Club, Fucked Up and Arkells, so hopefully it'll be pretty good. Born Ruffians have just announced a Canadian tour that'll take place from mid-March to early April. They're out in support...
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I Read The News Today... For Jan. 4, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) January 4, 2011 3:30 pm
RJD2 has released a free three-song EP of remixes that also includes the video for "The Glow." Grab The Glow Remixes here. Here's something that makes almost no sense: TV On The Radio bassist and producer Dave Sitek has joined Jane's Addiction. Well... kind of. He's playing bass on their new album. —Spinner Kanye West is doing everything he can to...
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I Read The News Today... For Nov. 8, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) November 8, 2010 3:38 pm
Lily Allen is back in hospital and is being treated for blood poisoning. Allen miscarried her second baby last week and is said to be getting better with treatment. —Sky News Marilyn Manson's signed with Cooking Vinyl, which will release his upcoming new album on his own Hell, etc. imprint sometime next year. Bizarrely, it's supposed to be a punk...
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I Read The News Today... For Oct. 21, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) October 21, 2010 1:35 pm
Looks like 102.1 The Edge and Dean Blundell are in some trouble again. The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council said Wednesday that comments Blundell made suggesting Justin Bieber was "gay" and that his fans were "likely 12 years old" violated part of the council's "equitable portrayal code" because they had "inappropriately sexualized children."...
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Mike Skinner's Swine Flu Song

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) May 6, 2009 10:37 am
This month's Grist 13 And Shitty 7 pointed out if you can't poke fun at a possible pandemic, you don't know how to laugh at anything. Mike Skinner of The Streets would probably agree. He's posted a video for a song he's written called "He's Behind You, He's Got Swine Flu," which mocks the swine flu (Mexican Flu for any Israelis...
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Streets Tweet New Songs

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By Craig Clark (CHARTattack) April 14, 2009 3:07 pm
Mike Skinner, better known to most as The Streets, will release three new tracks this week through his Twitter account. "I am going to Tweet three new songs this week," Skinner wrote early Monday morning. "I can't be bothered with all this trying to sell you music. It wastes valuable time.” Skinner seemed to have second thoughts...
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Mike Skinner Gets His Rave On

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) February 19, 2009 3:00 pm
Mike Skinner, who once described himself as the only white rapper who drinks tea, is probably one of the last guys you'd expect to dabble in rave music. Tea isn't what you'd typically drink while getting yer freak on to thunderous drum 'n' bass in a warehouse. But Skinner says the next Streets album will be very "ravey" indeed. Skinner...
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Mike Skinner Retires Moses After Crowdsurfing Injury

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By CHARTattack Staff January 29, 2009 1:58 pm
British music fans seem to have happy hands. First, Gallows singer Frank Carter claimed someone grabbed his crotch while he was crowdsurfing at a London show in early December. Now, The Streets' Mike Skinner sustained an injury on Tuesday night after an overzealous fan grabbed the rapper/singer's belt and wouldn't let go during a crowdsurfing...
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The Streets Annoyed With Allen

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) October 15, 2008 2:14 pm
Mike Skinner is tired of reading Lily Allen's MySpace blog because he says she complains too much. The man who records as The Streets recently told Britain's The Sun tabloid that he thinks Allen secretly feeds off both the positive and negative attention that she gets from the press. "Whenever you read Lily Allen's blog, she's moaning...
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By The Stereo (CHARTattack) September 15, 2008 4:15 pm
Mike Skinner's gone all positive. Let's hope he hasn't become a scientologist because that'd be a shame.
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Mike Skinner Borrows Everything

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) September 12, 2008 10:24 am
After trying to walk from southern England to France and forgetting he had a gig in Austria at the same time, Mike Skinner is set to release a new Streets album called Everything Is Borrowed on Oct. 7 through Vice Records. Skinner has described Everything Is Borrowed as his "peaceful coming to terms album," and says he'll follow it...
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Mike Skinner Plans Two Streets Albums

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By Zack Vitiello (CHARTattack) June 2, 2008 6:30 pm
Mike Skinner says the fifth album from The Streets will be his final one. In a May 25 post on his MySpace blog, Skinner declared that his fourth album, Everything Is Borrowed will be released in "a few months." Work has begun on the fifth and final Streets album, which remains untitled. "If you like The Streets you are about to...
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Mike Skinner Is No Longer Walking Through France

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) May 21, 2008 5:30 pm
Mike Skinner of The Streets has cut short his walk to southern France… because he forgot he was playing a gig. Skinner launched the trek, for which he was filming the video for a new track called "The Escapist," last week. He originally intended to walk from England to southern France with friends who work with him on his Beat Stevie...
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Mike Skinner Walks The Streets

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) May 16, 2008 4:30 pm
Mahatma Gandhi walked nearly 400 kilometres from Ahmedabad, India to Dandhi, on the coast of the Arabian Sea, to protest against British rule in India in 1930. Mike Skinner of The Streets is currently on an ambitious walk of his own. But instead of staging a protest, he’s making a music video. Skinner is walking from England to the south of...
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Mike Skinner And Pete Doherty Together; Will Kate Moss Be Jealous?

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By CHARTattack Staff August 14, 2006 5:00 pm
It could be a match made in heaven — or hell. Babyshambles singer Pete Doherty has been spending time with The Streets' Mike Skinner at the rapper's Shed Studios in London, England recording a new version of "Prangin' Out." The song, which in its original form opens The Streets' recently released The Hardest Way To Make An Easy...
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