Reviews

Appallingly violent vigilante satire from Audition's Takashi Miike. The opening scenes, with the film's title spelt out in semen and the head baddie puffing smoke through his slashed-open cheeks, promise OTT entertainment. But as the plot unfolds, only the strongest stomach will handle the scenes of torture, mutilation and rape between the black laughs.

Disappointing retro-rock from Alan McGee's stable

Distorted Hammond freak-outs from band for whom term "acid jazz" was coined

Third album from the artist formerly known as Angelou

Brilliant, ghostly alt.folk from New York

De La Soul producer enlists all-star cast to make third solo album

Former Smiths frontman picks the songs that saved his life

Live in LA with the occult metal gods at the peak of their mid-'70s powers

Unreleased tracks collated for Parisian house label

Rich portrait of a rebel artist