A list of 20 of the best albums released between January 1 and June 30, 2025, including some familiar faces, newcomers and a ...

Hello, hello, it’s good to be back “You gonna wake up then, or what?” As we launch this new magazine, in the shops tomorrow, it’s exactly 31 years – almost to the minute – since Oasis first sauntered ...

Richard Linklater's emotionally ambivalent high school homage is a cutting riposte to the rosy teen nostalgia of both American Graffiti and the entire John Hughes canon. Set in Nowhere, Middle ...

Since surfacing from the Detroit underground in 1993, Matthew Smith’s outfit have trodden an ever tangential path with infuriating results. Touching all bases from garage rock through prog ...

Collectors will want this compilation of Emmylou's early work for the inclusion of a duet with Johnny Cash on "Old Rugged Cross". Techno-buffs will want it for the crystalline 5:1 surround sound ...

IMPOSSIBLE PRINCESS BOTH BMG Kylie's career has mostly depended on tabloid smoke and mirrors; her faux gay-icon survival sustained by editors' insistence on the illusory perfection of her arse as ...

Despite an opening scene in which both father and son are entwined and writhing together (Alexei is being comforted by his father following a nightmare), Sokurov has indignantly refuted claims ...

San Franciscan rock satirists The Tubes actually pulled in some heavyweight support as they camped out in ’70s America. Drawing a fan club that included Captain Beefheart, Larry Graham, Stanley ...

They may be an easy target, but these reissues of Quo's third and fourth LPs from 1970 and 1971 serve only to show how long this band's sideshow has been gulling the innocent. Rossi and Parfitt ...

Extended edition of Bertolucci's lavish 1987 epic. OPENS MARCH 12, CERT 15, 218 MINS The Last Emperor tells the story of Pu Yi, installed as Lord Of Ten Thousand Years in 1908 at age three, only ...

"Bastard child of a randy AM radio and an insatiable eight-track cassette player," explain The Slaughter Rule directors Andrew and Alex Smith in the sleevenotes, "this soundtrack was conceived on ...

Described by its proto-feminist French director Virginie Despentes as an attempt "to seize woman's true sexuality back from the male gaze", Baise-Moi is therefore a visceral, explicit re-imagining ...