Hip hop from Aussie all-female collective

Round-up of Felix Da Housecat's prodigious '90s electro-disco productions

Classic frat-rock spanning 1964-66

Excellent introduction to gospel music

Superb live LP from band's autumn years

Sparks ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON FRIDAY MARCH 21, 2003 If geeks had their own political party, they'd probably be able to organise their conferences around the same time and place as the next Sparks gig, thus ensuring a 100 per cent attendance. That's how London's Festival Hall feels tonight, anyway. Sparks fans make your average Trekkie look like Elvis—that's young Elvis, of course: although even old, fat, shit Elvis wouldn't look so bad beside a myopic thirty something in a lurid "Lights Out Ibiza" T-shirt.

What it means to be in a rock band, or have a career, seems to have melted and fused into something older and freer for Jon Langford. The Welsh leader of original Leeds punks The Mekons lives in Chicago these days, and plays with The Waco Brothers, The Sadies and The Pine Valley Cosmonauts too.

Archive trawlers find more unreleased examples of Randy California's muse

Saucy street-funk from the dream-life of Riley

Loungy electronic sophisti-pop