Ten years after

The unstoppable Stones take Germany by storm and prove themselves the greatest rock'n'roll band on the planet

Documentary tribute to history's most unheralded backing band

Grammy-winning songwriter reveals his roots

First new album in 12 years from post-punk legends

Glorious fifth album proper from ever-shifting Bostonians reaches down through the years

The Wachowski brothers' kick-ass cyber-noir sequel bows to mainstream demands but still delivers

Deathless proto-ambient dinosaur that punk could not kill returns for 21st-century remake

How New York's hippie hoppers ushered in the philosophical D.A.I.S.Y. Age. And then pronounced themselves Dead

Second album from French four-piece sets this year's pop gold standard

After the early patronage of Howe Gelb, Oregon's Matt Ward dished up 2001's End Of Amnesia, one of the most breathtaking albums of recent years. Transfiguration...is another masterclass in deft guitar picking, smudged with piano, harmonica and a voice like honey drizzled onto a dry creekbed. The behind-a-screen-door quality of production adds to the strangeness, while the likes of "Undertaker" often stop, start, scuff around then veer off at a tangent. Somewhere between a Gelb bothering to finish off songs and The Band at their most bucolic.