Athens, Georgia's finest back at the Academy, facing the future, taking on all comers

On the intro tape, Johnny Cash's austerely remorseless "The Man Comes Around" sets the mood, then Colin MacIntyre's men come pounding out of the traps. For this mini tour, the school choir, feather boa and inflatable sheep of previous expeditions have been packed away, in favour of frill-free punk aggression.

The unstoppable Stones take Germany by storm and prove themselves the greatest rock'n'roll band on the planet

The Boss proves he's still rock'n'roll redemption personified

The Great American Sacred Cow treads water with turgid set

More than three decades on and the Isle Of Wight enjoys a few fleeting flashbacks of brilliance from The Thrills, The Cooper Temple Clause, Iggy Pop and Hell Is For Heroes

Gritty Southern rebel off-loads her emotional freight in a brilliantly paced set

Kathleen Edwards was one of the highlights of this year's South By Southwest Festival in Austin. Surely, I thought, she couldn't sound as good on a dull Wednesday night in a dingy London basement. But she could and she did. The buzz created by her debut, Failer, attracted some top London record company bosses to her first ever UK date. Among those were alt. country specialists Loose—although if they have designs on her, they must have been dismayed by the competition, which included Warner's chief, John Reed. And he surely could not have failed to be impressed.

Stunning one-man set as the eclectic troubadour of cool goes back to his folk-blues roots

The reunited US college rockers get startling heavy at what may be their final UK appearance