Reviews

Glaswegian chanteuse's second album

Stonesy blues from White Stripes' backyard

The great dance music innovators' final concert, recorded live at the Budokan in April 1996

Guitar legend's moving valediction

'Godfather of goth' hires former Birthday Party producer Nick Launay for 'urgent' 12th album

New Hope, PA nutters started out with a Casio and then bled rock's corpse dry

Second and third pre-Stankonia albums from Atlanta funk-hop giants, at mid-price

Thirty-six axe-wielders in mostly reflective mood

Analytical US-style remake of slow-burning Japanese chiller

Director Peter Watkins' mid-1960s work for the BBC still shines. Culloden recreated the famous battle as if covered by a modern news team—a radical approach for the time. More controversially, The War Game showed that nuclear war was an unwinnable nightmare, and was consequently banned by the Beeb, though it picked up an Oscar when released theatrically in 1966.