Reviews

Three years slaving away in a hot studio for UK garage man

Lo-fi avant-pop from Canadian duo

Third long-player from playful Franco-house pioneer

First official live album from industrial artcore legends

Former boxer 50 Cent already has a bloody history, having been stabbed in his studio in 2000 and shortly afterwards shot nine times while sitting in a parked car. There's no sense of community on this unapologetic throwback to straight-assed songs about guns, girls and drugs which has already sold nearly a million copies in America. Musically, the standout is the Dr Dre-produced "In Da Club," which, with its grim, joyless concentration on pleasure echoed by the death knell of its orchestral sample, could be the converse of Nelly's anthemic "Hot In Herre". His macho

Noisy rock from south London foursome named after Hugh Grant's BJ buddy

46,000 surf fans gather in the grounds of a stately pile and have fun, fun, fun

Boxed three-disc set exploring the historical context surrounding the '30s country-blues guitarist

There's life in the old Dogme yet

Paul Verhoeven's last pre-Hollywood film (from 1983) is a minor classic. Depressed alcoholic writer Gerard Reve (a tremendous, dishevelled Jeroen Krabbé) finds succour in the arms of a vampish beautician (Renée Soutendijk) only to discover, thanks to a series of gory flashbacks, he's due for much more than a makeover. Funny and fever-ish by turns, it's Basic Instinct for surrealists.