As Twilight frenzy swept the world, Kristin Stewart was propelled into stardom. Now, she's back as Bella, filming the eagerly awaited sequels. In the meantime, you can see her in a startlingly different role in The Cake Eaters , directed by Mary Stuart Masterson . Stewart plays a teenager afflicted with Fredriech's Araxia, a terminal disease of the nervous system for which there is no cure. She'll also star in the Joan Jett biopic [...]
Dakota Fanning has managed to hone her acting chops since her days as Sally in The Cat in the Hat and Tom Cruises' daughter in War of the Worlds , and now the 15-year-old starlet is broadening her acting-palette, portraying Cherie Currie of The Runaways in the new biopic directed by Floria Sigismondi . Working alongside Twilight star Kristen Stewart , who will be playing guitarist Joan Jett , [...]
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There is a Runaways movie in the works, with Twilight actress Kristen Stewart set to play Joan Jett and former child android Dakota Fanning angling to play hard-partying lead singer Cherie Currie. Currie was 15 when she joined the all-female hard rock group (best known for "Cherry Bomb"), so that makes Dakota Fanning the right age... if the movie concentrates on the Runaways era only. Does this mean the pic will glide over Currie's marriage to Robert " Ted Striker " Hays? It's trickier for a 15-year-old to [...]
An adult's look at the teenage diaries of the Runaways The Runaways were both an actual all-girl rock 'n' roll band and a realization of their impresario's promotional imagination. Their run of four studio albums in the 1970s ( The Runaways , Queens of Noise , Waitin' for the Night , And Now… The Runaways ), a live LP ( Live in Japan ), and a few odds 'n' sods collection [...]
Why has no one ever alerted me to the presence of this band before? A bunch of 1982 clips from an all-girl band called the Remaindrz just surfaced on YouTube. Think the Go-Go's meets Joan Jett, minus ... Continue reading "St. Louis Video: The Remaindrz, "Little Luv" + Interview" >
It's Christmas Eve. You know who knows how to do a Christmas song? Joan Jett, that's who. Remember her version of "Little Drummer Boy" on I Love Rock N' Roll? Her version kicked the crap out Bing Crosby and David...
Girl In A Coma Genre: Garage / Rock / Punk From: San Antonio, Texas United States San Antonio punk trio Girl in a Coma, who have made Joan Jett's Blackheart Records label their home, have lent their garage rock talents to the 'A Blackheart Christmas' holiday album. The trio release their inner Elvis with a cover [...]
Don't forget to get your Peace On Earth Vol II Christmas charity compilation from Hard To Find a Friend blog. It looks like Caleb is doling out his best of the year one by one. Here are No. 2 and No. 3 -whoa! A three-way tie? Hmmm. That would solve problems with my list. Rollo and Grady have posted their Top 25 as well as a covers post that includes Elbow's Back to Black (Winehouse) Motel de Moka has a Top [...]
Here's my favorite brunette Joan Jett with "Bad Reputation," the rebel anthem. "Oh no no no no no, not me me me me me." P.S. This song was used as the theme song for the greatest show about high school ever - "Freaks & Geeks." For those into Judd Apatow & Seth Rogan (Superbad, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, etc), that's the show they produced before people caught on to their humor. James Franco, Jason Segal, their all in it. Great show. Joan Jett - Bad Reputation
:: If you like The Bronx and fear the killing machine known as a pink flamingo. Then you need to play this game . :: Franz Ferdianand released the tracklisting to their next album, Tonight . :: Cursive are touring this winter. :: Joan Jett will be portrayed by Kristen Stewart ( Twilight , Adventureland ) in the upcoming biopic of The Runaways . :: Tom Morello has shot [...]
Joan Jett and The Blackhearts - Love Is All Around Over at Empire , I heard the news of this Twilight star's upcoming project, a biopic of my longtime favorite artist Joan Jett. I do agree with the "idea" that she may be one of the key reasons why Twilight is currently sucking up tons of cash all over the world, but it's pretty eminent that Kristen Stewart has stressed it to her fans that she doesn't want a blockbuster career. "As [...]
MUSIC NEWS - Kristen Stewart (Twilight) has been signed to portray Joan Jett in "The Runaways," the rock n roll biopic of the influenetial '70s all-girl rock band. The Runaways were the first commercially successful all-girl hard rock band; their members were; guitarists Jett and Lita Ford, drummer Sandy West, bassist Jackie Fox and singer/keyboardist Cherie Currie. The band was formed in 1975 by music impresario Kim Fowley, who thought a novelty act of teenage girls performing in leather & lace would be an easy sell. But the members were serious about their craft and performed their own music so found a rock audience with songs like "Cherry [...]
From Twilight to Joan Jett Kirsten Stewart , the star of 'Twilight', will be playing Joan Jett in " The Runaways ", a rock 'n' roll biopic of the 1970s all-girl band. Said movie will be released in 2009 and will be directed and screen-written by Floria Sigismondi . Joan Jett will be the executive producer of the movie. (Source: Reuters )
Joan Jett's Blackheart Records holiday album now on iTunes Joan Jett 's record label Blackheart Records will be celebrating the xmas season with a holiday album available on iTunes. The album features newly recorded holiday standards from Girl in a Coma, The Dollyrots and original tunes from Seattle punks The Cute Lepers and veteran Blackheart band The Vacancies . A modern take on " Silent Night " closes out the 11-track offering. Recently recorded with Joan Jett on vocals [...]
MUSIC NEWS - Disgraced British rocker, Gary Glitter has had his name removed from the wall of the famous Cavern Club in Liverpool, England reports NME . The cl ub posts the names of the acts that have performed at th e club, on bricks on the its w all, but the convicted sex offender's name has been [...]
Joan Jett on Nissan Live Sets on Yahoo! Music, Nov 17 Joan Jett and her band The Blackhearts will be featured on the newest installment of Yahoo!'s original music series, Nissan Live Sets on Yahoo! Music, beginning this Monday, November 17. Visit here for a rare exclusive live performance of hits from the Joan Jett catalog and an audience Q&A in which the superstar shares some revealing answers.
Filed under: Rock Almanac Spinner.com : On This Date in 1958: Joan Jett is born Joan Marie Larkin in Wynnewood, Pa.The Almanac Advises for September 22: "The roar of a jet engine at takeoff has been measured at a very loud 120 decibels, which is the same level as found at a typical rock... Read more
Joan Jett: Fake Friends [ purchase ] In the interest of gender equality (not to mention it's a Catalan version of the name [female]), here is Joan Jett ... One of the coolest rockers that ever picked up a guitar. I, like all'a y'all, I love Rock And Roll, so... Since Rock and Roll is a rule-breaking genre already, lemme be the theme-buster! From here on out, bring on your Ivan, Juan, Jan, and Ian... or what have y'alls ...
Inspired by a propitious confluence of a long discussion about cover versions we didn't know where covers and a generous correspondent whom we'll know as RH e-mailing me a bunch of rare originals of better known covers, we are now at the cusp of what will be a longish series. Any Major Notebook now includes two pages worth of almost 100 shortlisted songs that in their original form are lesser
August, 1993: For the first time, the public is allowed inside Buckingham Palace . Ong Teng Cheong becomes the first President of Singapore elected by the population. New York Yankees 4, Cleveland Indians 0, at Cleveland Stadium 6 months earlier the World Trade Center was bombed for the first time "when a car bomb was detonated [...]
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