Ange

A best-of from the prankster rapper, with every track reinvented and re-recorded

Cult Britpunk director's brief Hollywood foray in full

Charting the changes in 19th-century Sicily

Jazz-tinged folk from prolific, political US singer-songwriter

Companion piece to last year's live-in-the-UK comp. Includes San Francisco's 1966 add-on "Avalon Blues"

Lifting the lid on LAPD brutality and corruption

Fine if sometimes obscure music-making from fiery Scots legend

The reunited US college rockers get startling heavy at what may be their final UK appearance

Sparks ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON FRIDAY MARCH 21, 2003 If geeks had their own political party, they'd probably be able to organise their conferences around the same time and place as the next Sparks gig, thus ensuring a 100 per cent attendance. That's how London's Festival Hall feels tonight, anyway. Sparks fans make your average Trekkie look like Elvis—that's young Elvis, of course: although even old, fat, shit Elvis wouldn't look so bad beside a myopic thirty something in a lurid "Lights Out Ibiza" T-shirt.

Classy chill-out anthology follows hit formula