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  Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Flaming Lips Headline Brooklyn's Great GoogaMooga Festival

  March 26, 2013 – Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Flaming Lips, Matt & Kim, Father John Misty, De La Soul, the Darkness, and more are booked to play this year's Great GoogaMooga Festival, organizers announced today (March 26). The three-day event takes place from May 17 to 19 in Brooklyn's Prospect Park and promises food from 85 New York restaurants, 75 different beers from various breweries, 100 different wines from several wineries, and 20 live performan …
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  The Darkness' 'With a Woman' Video Is a Goofy 'Hot For Teacher' Remake

  March 8, 2013 – To hate the Darkness is to hate fun. To love the Darkness is to love schlock. And therein lies the frustrating side of this Suffolk glam band: lest you be labeled a complete bore or an utter dumbass, you're forced to tolerate Justin Hawkins right down to the ridiculous mustache on his face. …
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  The Darkness, Iggy and the Stooges Both Plotting (New) 'Old-School' Albums

  January 25, 2013 – Fans of U.K. glam metal and no-frills Detroit punk each have something to look forward to: new albums from the Darkness and the Stooges are on the way, according to reports.Darkness guitarist Dan Hawkins recently spoke with Billboard to confirm that the over-the-top quartet's fourth full-length will see the light in 2014. …
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  Hear the Darkness' Giddy, Glammy 'Everybody Have a Good Time'

  June 25, 2012 – The Darkness don't do anything halfway. When the recently reunited English hard rockers introduced their first new music in seven years, falsetto-festooned "Nothin's Gonna Stop Us," early this year, they didn't stop at a cartoon video involving power-pop flamingos, Stonehenge sorcerers, and a boxer-turned-soloist whose arms and legs are all guitars. …
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  The Darkness 'Beat the KLF,' Poop on Munch's 'The Scream'

  June 13, 2012 – Apparently the news media got it wrong: An art collector didn't spend $119 million on Edvard Munch's expressionistic painting the Scream, it was actually retro glam rockers the Darkness. And they want to "shite" all over it, which is the subject of the Funny or Die video below. …
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  Defend Yourself, Justin Hawkins of the Darkness!

  March 15, 2012 – Justin Hawkins, frontman for recently reunited hard rockers, the Darkness, has lived a life that has simultaneously conformed to and satirized just about every cliché rock 'n' roll has to offer. …
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  Watch the Darkness' Cartoonishly Excessive 'Nothin's Gonna Stop Us' Clip

  February 1, 2012 – When the going gets tough, artists hoping to capture the moment have a couple of options: feel our pain, or help us pretend that the pain doesn't exist. For the Darkness, the over-the-top hair-rockers best known for the wonderfully cheesy early 2000s excess of "I Believe in a Thing Called Love," there wasn't even a choice. "Nothin's Gonna Stop Us," the English band's first song since 2005's One Way Ticket to Hell... …
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  Darkness Plot New LP, The Horrors Return + More

  May 25, 2011 – After announcing their reunion in March, The Darkness are set to record a new album for 2012 and embark on a world tour. "There will probably be a Darkness album, but somehow we'll get new music out before then," frontman Justin Hawkins told Q Magazine (via NME). …
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  The Darkness Reunite

  March 15, 2011 – Good news for spandex-lovin' glam-rock fans: The Darkness are back! After a five-year split, all four original members of the British outfit, including frontman Justin Hawkins and bassist Frankie Poullain, have reformed and scheduled their first gig -- an opening slot for Def Leppard on June 10 at England's Download Festival. Hawkins, 35, who quit the band in 2006 shortly after a stint in rehab for cocaine addiction, spoke to the BBC  …
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  Hot Leg: Into the Light

  May 22, 2009 – Steel Panther stride onstage around 1 A.M. at La Zona Rosa on the second night of Austin, Texas' annual South by Southwest music festival. …
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