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Joan Jett Rumbles Back with 'Sinner'

By Madeleine Brand

Published July 26, 2006 at 7:59 AM EDT

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Joan Jett and her band are playing on the Vans Warped Tour this summer.

Martha Little, NPR

The hit song "I Love Rock and Roll" by punk rocker Joan Jett stayed at number one on the Billboard charts for seven weeks back in 1982.

Now decades later, Jett and her band, the Blackhearts, are playing songs from her first album in a decade — a hard-rocking CD called Sinner — to a new generation of punk fans.

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Madeleine Brand

Madeleine Brand is the host of NPRs newest and fastest-growing daily show, Day to Day. She conducts interviews with newsmakers (Iraqi politicians, US senators), entertainment figures (Bernardo Bertolluci, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Ricky Gervais), and the everyday people affected by the news (an autoworker laid off at GM, a mother whose son was killed in Iraq).