Reviews

RELEASED A YEAR after Sergio Leone created the genre with A Fistful Of Dollars (1965), Django, directed by Leone's onetime assistant Sergio Corbucci, was the movie that saw the spaghetti western explode; a fact borne out by the countless unauthorised sequels it spawned across Europe and beyond (as far as Jamaica, where Perry Henzell's 1973 Rude Boy classic The Harder They Come paid heavy homage). Blue-eyed Franco Nero plays the eponymous mystery gunslinger, wandering in from the filthy wilderness, dragging a coffin behind him, toward a Hellish-looking bordertown.

The Philly kings of blue-eyed soul attain megastardom

Jaz Coleman's (not so) merry men short-changed by another piecemeal compilation

Intense, peak-period live set featuring two previously undiscovered Nyro songs

Faithfully rendered psych-pop, 14 years after the event

Latest soppy Kate Hudson vehicle— you have to wonder what her Black Crowes hubby makes of it all— features an eclectic pop selection, with a few little smashers more by accident than design. Devo's "Whip It" and Liz Phair's "Extraordinary" are about as daring as it gets, while there are decent if overtly radio-friendly offerings from John Hiatt and Joan Osborne, plus the resurrected Simon & Garfunkel's too-cute-to-shoot "At The Zoo".

Third set from Sussex singer-songwriter following last year's widely acclaimed From Every Sphere

The most Californian band in Dublin turn their heads homewards

Hits and misses on the Modfather's first album of cover versions

'Superfluous' Ash lady proves she was born to be in the band