Reviews

Twentieth anniversary edition of '80s classic expanded with live songs, sessions and rarities

Dazzling, genre-dodging debut from young American five-piece

Mekons singer from Venus takes on the men from Mars

Confederate quintet follow last year's Decoration Day with strapping sixth LP

Underrated US singer-songwriter employs appealing simplicity

The new hick hop movement starts here

Mississippi bluesman remixed for the hip hop generation

Mystery Train director serves up series of caffeine-aided celebrity shorts

Oddly affecting portrait of an inadequate genius

Footage of the stern old art-rockers in their pomp is hideously rare. Wire On The Box counteracts this, a full-length show recorded for German TV before a few dozen polite hippies. The tension is delicious, the music (mainly from 154) fantastic. Best of all, there's the mystique-smashing vision of the young band: gawky, self-conscious, striving cutely for the froideur that only age would bring them.