Album

Dependable avant-pop from Anglo-French institution

Post-rockers do '80s stadium rock

Valedictory album from singer who'd experienced a renaissance in the late '90s

Seattle songstress' magnificent fourth album finds her deep in fire and ice

Reissue of prototype Mancunian punk-funksters' debut album

Cracking mod anthology from former NME receptionist and erstwhile chum of Paul Weller

You'd think that seven films lasting up to 90 minutes each would offer limitless space for a thorough examination of the past, present and future of the blues, but Martin Scorsese's grand concept adds up to less than the sum of its parts.

Incendiary material from 2003 Euro tour

Heavy rock: Music made by the intellectually challenged for 13-year-olds. To be sung as if your nads are in the process of dropping. It's funny: finally people have realised this, chuckling 'ironically' as they buy Darkness records and now enjoy the broad comic strokes of School Of Rock, which is directed by the highly unlikely figure of Richard Linklater. It's set alight, however, by the highly broad figure of Jack Black, a man who can't help but be funny in everything he does.

Mexican-Canadian-French singer pursues global stylings