Reviews

Slackest man in Philadelphia reformats psych-rock for widescreen viewing...

The lost prog-soul classic rereleased, with three decades of newly unearthed demos...

A revitalised Burdon tells survivor’s tales...

Big Deal: The Breeders’ best LP reissued as a seven-disc vinyl/3CD boxset on its 20th anniversary...

The latest chapter in the singer-songwriter’s evolution is a work of immense beauty and scale...

Ig coaxes James Williamson out for a victory lap...

A collaboration between filmmaker Michael Winterbottom and star Steve Coogan, where a lad from the north west of England makes good in unconventional circumstances, accompanied by a bunch of like-minded, but broadly eccentric characters. This is the story of Soho porn entrepreneur Paul Raymond, but it could just as easily describe the trajectory of Tony Wilson, the subject of Winterbottom and Coogan’s first collaboration, 24 Hour Party People – or even Coogan’s own back story, which stretches back to his working class origins in Liverpool.

Morrissey’s partial rewriting of his past proves grimly successful...

A wizard, a true star...

First new material in 20 years from celebrated post-punk doomsayers...