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50 items by John D. Luerssen

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  Joe Jackson Reunites "Sharp" Band | ARTICLE

  Although he vowed it would never happen, Joe Jackson is reuniting his original rock band for a new studio recording and twenty-fifth anniversary tour next spring. The band -- Jackson (piano, vocals), Graham Maby (bass), Gary Sanford (guitar) and Dave...

  June 24, 2002 12:00 AM ET
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  Durst Wants Borland Back | ARTICLE

  Limp Bizkit singer Fred Durst wants departed guitarist Wes Borland back in the band. "We are hoping Wes will come back and suprise [sic] us one day soon," Durst posts on Limp Bizkit's official site. "We really miss him." Borland left...

  May 24, 2002 12:00 AM ET
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  Former Bassist Sues Weezer | ARTICLE

  Former Weezer bassist Matt Sharp has filed a lawsuit against the band over songwriting ownership. The suit -- filed April 18th in United States District Court, Central District of California -- charges his former band mates with...

  April 24, 2002 12:00 AM ET
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  Live Dead CD of Dylan Covers Due | ARTICLE

  Arista Records will release Postcards of the Hanging, an album's worth of the Grateful Dead's live interpretations of Bob Dylan songs, on March 19th. David Gans, co-producer of 1999's So Many Roads (1965-1995) box set and host...

  February 4, 2002 12:00 AM ET
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  Sir Paul's "Rain" to Fall | ARTICLE

  Paul McCartney's new studio album, Driving Rain, will be released November 13th on Capitol Records. Recorded in Los Angeles this summer with his new band, the former Beatle's first album of new material since 1997's Flaming Pie...

  September 18, 2001 12:00 AM ET
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  Sunny Day Real Estate Close | ARTICLE

  After nine on-and-off years, Emo-rock trailblazers Sunny Day Real Estate have called it quits. The band had been at work on the follow-up to last year's The Rising Tide but, because of business woes, has decided not...

  June 11, 2001 12:00 AM ET
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  Guided By Voices' New Drill | ARTICLE

  As one of rock's late bloomers forty-three-year-old ex-schoolteacher Robert Pollard -- mastermind behind Dayton, Ohio's Guided By Voices -- has long had a knack for writing oddly irresistible hard pop gems. And if the forefather of lo-fi...

  April 4, 2001 12:00 AM ET
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  Courtney Love Inks Solo Deal | ARTICLE

  Hole frontwoman Courtney Love has signed a deal with Epitaph Records and is currently putting together a brand new band. While no other members of her "femme punk supergroup" have been announced, Courtney says the project will...

  March 1, 2001 12:00 AM ET
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  Keith Morris Comes Full Circle with Midget Handjob | ARTICLE

  "I've always been an equal opportunity offender," says one time punk rock curator Keith Morris of his partiality toward lewd band names and song titles. After all, the now forty-something former Circle Jerks vocalist has, in the...

  September 27, 2000 12:00 AM ET
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  Alex Chilton Set to Go | ARTICLE

  Alex Chilton has been a significant music presence for over thirty years. Beginning in 1967, when he was a mere teenager, he fronted the Box Tops and scored major hits with "The Letter" and "Cry Like a...

  February 28, 2000 12:00 AM ET