Disappointing retro-rock from Alan McGee's stable

Distorted Hammond freak-outs from band for whom term "acid jazz" was coined

Third album from the artist formerly known as Angelou

Brilliant, ghostly alt.folk from New York

De La Soul producer enlists all-star cast to make third solo album

Former Smiths frontman picks the songs that saved his life

Live in LA with the occult metal gods at the peak of their mid-'70s powers

Unreleased tracks collated for Parisian house label

Rich portrait of a rebel artist

The first in Takashi Miike's career-making Triad Society Trilogy. Set in Tokyo's Shinjuku district, rogue cop Kippei Shiina puts himself between local yakuza and a gay Taiwanese mob; cue cocaine-fuelled blow jobs, anal rape and old ladies having their eyeballs plucked out. A Hollywood remake seems unlikely.