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Paul Morley: Showing Off

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Published Jan. 23, 2010 at 7:05 p.m.

All these tips for 2010 might leave you feeling jaded, but the point of pop is that it just keeps coming ... I ... don't know about you, and now, alas, I guess I never will, but at the same time that pop music is coming to a kind of end, it's also to some extent continually starting up again. Or at least, it appears to be always starting up again, so that each new year now brings the list of those about to break through, joining the ranks of those that have already broken through, either

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Birthday Party Guitarist Passes Away

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Published Dec. 30, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.

Rowland S Howard, the legendary former guitarist with Australian post-punk pioneers The Birthday Party, has died aged 50 ...

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Public Image Ltd

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Published Dec. 18, 2009 at 6:53 a.m.

John Lydon's post-punk outfit hit the road for their first tour in 17 years, sadly without founder members Keith Levene and Jah Wobble ...

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OMM's Top 50 Albums of the Decade

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Published Nov. 30, 2009 at 10:54 a.m.

50-11: The countdown ... 50 DANGER MOUSE The Grey Album ... deleted, 2004 ... The idea of mashing up Jay-Z's Black Album with the Beatles' White Album was irresistible; those surprised by the brilliant results included the former's lawyers ... 49 ... DESTINY'S CHILD Survivor ... Columbia, 2001 ... Destiny's Child's multi-platinum bootylicious third album spawned four huge singles and sent the trio into the stratosphere, making Beyoncé a superstar ... 48 RACHEL UNTHANK AND THE WINTERSET

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Aretha Franklin, Ozzy Osbourne Encourage Young Rockers Backstage at Hall of Fame Concert

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Published Oct. 31, 2009 at 10:06 a.m.

Photo: Kambouris/WireImageIf the first night of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 25th anniversary concerts were about looking back and celebrating legacies, night number two was about looking forward. From the performances — which focused heavily on punk, post-punk and metal — to the conversations that took place backstage, Friday night at Madison Square [ ... ] ...

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The Rakes, 'Klang' (V2)

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Published Oct. 28, 2009 at 3:04 p.m.

There's not a ton of polish to these Brits' angled post-punk, which may explain why some of their 2005 peers -- Bloc Party, Maxïmo Park -- won the ratings war. But the group's final album (they broke up in October) still punches like a champ, with sharp bursts of intelligent energy. At times, singer Alan Donohoe sounds on the verge of old-school punk panic ("1989"), then he broods man-fully on "The Loneliness of the Outdoor Smoker." Skinny-tie pogo fiends, you could find worse ways to spend 30

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Album: The Slits, Trapped Animal, (Sweet Nothing)

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Published Oct. 24, 2009 at 6:00 p.m.

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If it's surprising that post-punk legends The Slits have made an album as fresh as this after a 25-year hiatus, remember that they were, famously, very young to begin with. (Ari Up, Johnny Rotten's stepdaughter, was 14 in 1976.) ...

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Tegan and Sara, 'Sainthood' (Vapor/Sire)

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Published Oct. 9, 2009 at 2:51 p.m.

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"I know it turns you off when I get talking like a teen," sings Sara Quin in "On Directing," a cut from the sixth studio album by Quin and her twin sister, Tegan ...

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Public Image Limited Return!

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Published Sept. 7, 2009 at 6:21 a.m.

John Lydon reforms post-punk pioneers for UK tour ...

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The record doctor: Paul Mardles talks to Jeff Stelling, Sky Sports presenter

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Published Sept. 5, 2009 at 6:05 p.m.

Sky Sports' walking football encyclopaedia once had a Jethro Tull habit and hair to match. Paul Mardles brings him up to date ... Jeff Stelling strokes the middle of his back and grimaces. To onlookers, it no doubt looks as if he is in pain. He's not. Rather, embarrassed by the excesses of youth, he is indicating the exact length of his hair when, aged 16, he worshipped Jethro Tull and rarely left the house without his weighty brown trenchcoat. "I'd forgotten about it until recently," he says,

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