Reviews

Veteran folk queen turns to the alt. country songbook

Folk-rock pioneers' 35th birthday reunion, plus founder member's solo album

Brazilian metal-rap remains obscure

Profound songs stunningly sung as rock's most remarkable renaissance continues

Twenty treasures from Ireland's finest punk band

Deluxe reissues cover Willie's '77-'80 post-outlaw/pre-Julio Iglesias period

Brazilian pauper turns hitman hero

Warren Beatty and Julie Christie in arty, autumnal 1971 tale of the Old West

Made by Jack Hazan and David Mingay, this film follows Ray Gange as he packs in his job to roadie for The Clash. The sight of Strummer, Jones and co acting out scenes from their daily lives is strangely endearing, and as a record of pre-Thatcher Britain, it's fascinating.

Peter Mullan proves himself a director of real bite in this harsh, affecting study of how '60s Ireland's strict adherence to Catholic doctrines ruined the sanity of many a young woman. If deemed to be in "moral danger", girls were incarcerated, with nuns serving as jailers. Geraldine McEwan makes a chilling wicked witch, and a sparky cast ensures it's an engrossing, unpreachy story.