Reviews

Anti-grunge heroine sticks, perhaps unwisely, to her guns

Heading up Kansas indie band Butterglory, Matt Suggs ended the '90s in disarray as first the band, then his relationship with its girl drummer, dissolved. Returning home to California, he cut countrified solo debut The Golden Days Before They End in 2000. Returning with Brooklyn's Thee Higher Burning Fire as back-up, its successor is harder, crusted in antsy guitars, though Suggs' slightly distracted vocals give it a homemade quality that pushes Amigo Row into Hayden territory rather than straight-ahead rock.

Big, bright, effervescent Peanuts pop from Brighton sextet

Texan renegade follows post-9/11 triumph Jerusalem with more political invective

Comic anti-hero Frank Castle on the big screen

France's answer to Mean Streets, Trainspotting and Do The Right Thing all rolled into one...

Recorded last December at the end of the 2003 world tour, it's spooky watching Gary Brooker singing "A Whiter Shade Of Pale" so many years after it scored 1967's summer of love. Yet his voice hasn't altered one iota. A third of the 21 tracks come from their 2003 album, The Well's On Fire. But it's old favourites like "Homburg", "Shine On Brightly" and "A Salty Dog" that command all the attention.

Cool crime thriller starring a homicide detective with dentures

Final four studio albums from da Brudders, with bonus tracks

Two-CD set of mainly live jazz-folk genius from early '70s to mid-'90s, plus DVD interview from last year