Editors' picks
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Mike Skinner: Why I'm killing off the Streets
With his fifth, reportedly brilliant, album due out next month, the charismatic 32-year-old talks candidly about music, fame and fatherhood – and why he hopes this record will be his last. By Caspar Llewellyn Smith -
My hero: Kate Bush by David Mitchell
'It's hard to think of a novelist, let alone another singer-songwriter, who takes on such diverse narrative viewpoints with Bush's aplomb'
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Yee-haw: Jamey Johnson, a country star it's OK for Guardian readers to like
The surprise at the top end of US critics' albums of the year lists was The Guitar Song by a liberal country singer who's more Oprah than Opry -
2010: The year in music
Video: Michael Hann, Rosie Swash and Tim Jonze discuss the pop highlights of 2010, from Kanye West to Hot Chip -
Pop in 2011 – a preview
Kitty Empire has doubts about the end-of-year drive to find the next big thing. But since you insist…
