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Mick Jones is surprise guest at first NME Awards show

Top 10 hits from the old groaner's indian summer of pop success, including The Smiths

I’ve just been reading your comments on yesterday’s Vampire Weekend blog – thanks for those. They helped me crystallise my thoughts about that much-vaunted African influence on the album. What’s interesting, I think, is not that they draw on African sounds, but how they point up the affinities between that spindly, melodically cartwheeling guitar sound and the indie-rock tradition.

Intimate drama of shattered widow and junkie burns brightly, starring Benicio Del Torro and Halle Berry

Fun and games: perverse pop galore on band's intrepid third

Shelby does Dusty In Memphis...Almost

'Real Emotional Trash' is out in March

Teen pregnancy proves highly fertile comic source

A monumental work of American gothic about greed, oil and murder, starring Daniel Day-Lewis

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