Album

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

Belated CD release of 2001 Internet-only 'comeback' album

Debut from promising Scots indie-rockers

Philip Glass at his most minimal, repetitive, and inexplicably, magically, affecting. Apparently, Michael Nyman wrote a score for this, too, and was sore when Glass won that particular clash of the titans. Which, you have to concede, has a touch more aesthetic loftiness about it than "Ugly Noel tells someone to fuck off". It's lovely, though if we're candid, not as lovely as we were hoping. Many reviews of the film decried the music as over-insistent, which is akin to describing George Bush as a genius.

Uncompromising Londoners bring the noise to ragga