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Our culture critics’ picks for 2010

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Published Dec. 31, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.

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POP AND ROCK BY ANDY GILL ...

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Rock Daily By the Numbers: The Official 2009 Blog-Down

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Photo: McCormack/WireImage.com; SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images;Kravitz/FilmMagic; Kempin/WireImage.comAs we say farewell to 2009 and welcome a new decade, Rolling Stone looks back at the biggest stories, funniest headlines and “all the news that fit” in 2009. It was the year we lost the King of Pop, the year Adam Lambert and Lady Gaga exploded, the year U2 cemented [ ... ] ...

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Tim Hart, Folk-Rock Musician, Dies at 61

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Published Dec. 31, 2009 at 1:31 a.m.

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Mr. Hart was a founding member of Steeleye Span, one of the first British folk-rock groups ...

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Birthday Party Guitarist Passes Away

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post-punk, punk

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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M.I.A.'s Global Party: The Futuristic Pop Star on Her Decade's Journey

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Published Dec. 29, 2009 at 3:43 p.m.

"I was good at surviving just because of my lifestyle and my life's story"Look back at the decade in our new issue, on stands now: the 100 Best Albums and Songs, Top 10 Movies and much more.The Rolling Stone editors picked eight stars — from Bruce and Beyoncé to Radiohead and U2 — who not only made the best music but also led the way as Artists of the Decade in our ...

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A Very Personal, Highly Idiosyncratic Musical Overview of the Aughts

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pop, radiohead

Published Dec. 28, 2009 at 5:00 a.m.

This is not about American Idol, Kenny Chesney, Radiohead, Sufjan Stevens, Beyonce, Wilco, or The Arcade Fire. If, for the past ten years, you’ve followed popular music beyond the narrow confines of Top 40 radio, you already know the big albums and the major musical trends of the decade. This is not about that. The Aughts were ushered in by a cavalcade of short-lived (sometimes all too literally) rap stars, pre-fab boy bands, and pop divas, and they will be ushered out by a cavalcade of rap

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The Year in Style: When Lady Gaga Appears, So Do Her Many Influences

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muse, pop

Published Dec. 26, 2009 at 12:27 a.m.

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More than an ordinary pop star or fashion muse, Lady Gaga seems closer to a gamer’s creation ...

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Talent 2010: The pop star, Coco Summner

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Published Dec. 25, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.

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You might think that Coco Sumner – frontwoman of the band I Blame Coco – has an unfair advantage over her indie-pop rivals this year. Coco is the daughter of Sting and Trudie Styler, one of the wealthiest, most famous and eminently slappable celebrity couples on the planet ...

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Rocking and Dancing From Night Into Day

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Published Dec. 25, 2009 at 3:32 a.m.

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To aid your New Year’s Eve revelry, the pop and jazz critics of The New York Times have chosen some of the most promising shows ...

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Jackson Doctor Conrad Murray Filmed for British Documentary

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Published Dec. 24, 2009 at 12:13 p.m.

Photo: AFP/Getty Images A British documentary team has filmed Dr. Conrad Murray’s first day back at his practice for an upcoming television special. Murray remains the lone focus of the Michael Jackson homicide investigation; Jackson was Murray’s patient at the time of his June 25th death from cardiac arrest following an acute intoxication of the [ ... ] ...

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