Bad company

Vivid, polemic documentary about the unchecked greed of modern capitalism

Slick odd-couple blockbuster which sees secret service grandee Anthony Hopkins forced to team up with street-punk Chris Rock in Prague as a nuclear bomb in a suitcase goes up for sale. Jerry Bruckheimer ensures the noisy pace never lets up; an anarchic Rock plays it strictly for laughs and a horizontal Hopkins looks mighty bored. Great stuff, all the same.

The songwriting legend on his finest work, from The Hollies to CSNY

Cave and co's career at its crepuscular best

Soul queen’s debut and sophomore gems on vinyl for the first time

Mayer once again joins the Grateful Dead members

One More Time With Feeling returns to cinemas in December

It's from the forthcoming Bad Seeds album, Skeleton Tree

Band reveal soundtrack collection and images for 'Pearl Jam Twenty'

Over the summer, I got pretty hooked on a playlist/mixtape thing, "Wah Wah Cowboys", that turned up on a blog called The Old Straight Track. A triumph of early ‘70s crate-digging, "Wah Wah Cowboys" located a high place where country and country-rock found a groove, and packed a fair few revelations into 45 minutes.