Brummie fops' weird wilderness years

Another trip down the well-worn path of the Drake archive

A three-CD journey through the English underground of 1967-1975

Mighty compilation of LA country-punk pioneers

Twenty-one-track greatest hits from Welsh genre-hopping psychonauts

The album that established the late rapper's reputation

Blanche come here haunted by associations— chiefly leader Dan Miller's with fellow Detroiter Jack White. The pair shared several bands before Jack's vault to fame, and moonlighting Blanchers made up half his Loretta Lynn-backing Detroit supergroup The Do-Whaters. Blanche also supported The White Stripes last year, and bunked with them on this UK trip.

Young Sussex-born singer-songwriter steps up to the next level with best live show to date

The former Screaming Tree gives a stupefying performance but, despite crowd rumours, has no need of an ambulance

Originally seen as a disappointing follow-up to the all-conquering Halloween, John Carpenter's The Fog (1980) is now more widely regarded as a classic supernatural thriller, inspired by Poe and HP Lovecraft, in which the isolated Californian community of Antonio Bay is menaced by the ghosts of a pirate horde. Masterful.