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Macclesfield Honours Ian Curtis

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Published May 18, 2010 at 3:55 a.m.

On the thirtieth anniversary of his death, Curtis's hometown pays tribute to the Joy Division legend ...

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Dizzee Rascal: pop star of the decade

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Published Nov. 28, 2009 at 7:07 p.m.

The aspiring grime spitter featured in the first issue of OMM back in 2003 and made the cover in 2007. Now he's the biggest British pop star of 2009 ... On the evening of 19 October 2003, the crowds gathering on Tower Bridge to await David Blaine's emergence from his Perspex box heard a booming bassline bubbling up from the fast-flowing surface of the Thames beneath them. A small boat packed with revellers – notable among them the already familiar, wiry figure of Dizzee Rascal – had sailed

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John Lennon's days in the life

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Published Oct. 31, 2009 at 7:07 p.m.

How to tell the story of the young Lennon? ... First-time director Sam Taylor-Wood, rising star Aaron Johnson and Yoko Ono talk exclusively about new film Nowhere Boy ... Here in the New Clubmoor Hall in Norris Green, Liverpool, they're selling Bateman's Light Dinner Ale at 6d a bottle. The reek of Nelson's Tipped and Senior Service cigarettes fills the air. Moody boys in slim suits and slick DAs mooch about the dancefloor. In front of them glamorous girls in pencil skirts and fitted jackets,

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The Word on....

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Published Oct. 15, 2009 at 6:00 p.m.

"It isn't that far off the beam ... The Lips nod to Neil Young, Pink Floyd, and Walt Disney, but also to Joy Division, Santana, and Gary Numan. Defying its own title, 'Embryonic' presents a band discovering that the far edge of an idea is often more compelling than its core." - avclub.com ...

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The Flaming Lips, 'Embryonic' (Warner Bros.)

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Published Oct. 12, 2009 at 4:32 p.m.

The universe tends toward disarray. Stars explode. Planets collide. Singers in white suits douse themselves in fake blood. The Flaming Lips understand this sloppy state of affairs and have spent the past 25 years gleefully dealing with the mess, first encouraging it as acid-stuffed punks and then, for the past decade, coming to terms with it as the mainstream's warmly philosophical psych-pop freaks of choice ... Now, though, singer Wayne Coyne, multi-instrumentalist Steven Drozd, bassist Michael

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Album: Bad Lieutenant, Never Cry Another Tear (Triple Echo)

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Published Oct. 8, 2009 at 6:00 p.m.

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Ironically, while younger bands strive to revive the sound and mood of Joy Division, Bernard Sumner's subsequent career has sometimes seemed like a desperate flight from his earlier group ...

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Album: Editors, In This Light and on This Evening (Columbia)

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Published Oct. 9, 2009 at 10:04 a.m.

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For their third album, Editors have made a significant step away from the indie-goth stylings which prompted previous releases to be compared to Joy Division ...

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