Neon

Five-disc box of demos, sessions and lost album

Athenian trio deliver alternative state of the union address on sombre 14th album

Ravishing pop debut from Malmo four-piece

Alec Baldwin excels in this impressive tale of monstrous Vegas gangsters and their victims

BUSH HALL, LONDON Monday March 1, 2004 Rouse closes the first of two nights here with a version of Neil Young's "For The Turnstiles" so intense and intimate that when he sings the line "though your confidence may be shattered" we all inwardly go "uh-oh",and when he adds "it doesn't matter" we all go "phew, what a relief". His crowd are rapt throughout, whooping at every intro like he's just won the Superbowl.

Lou Ye's beguiling movie tells the hazy, cut-up tale of a motorcycle courier once hired to follow a woman he then fell for, who subsequently threw herself into the river but seems to have been reborn as a nightclub performer dressed as a mermaid. With its drifting, subjective camera capturing jump-cut collages of street life in the neon-splashed city, it's a fascinatingly intimate portrait of the Shanghai river front, wrapped around a mystery.

Mix of new and old future-funk

Sofia Coppola's second feature is a graceful, melancholic romance set in Tokyo and starring Bill Murray

Belated but brilliant follow-up to Choochtown from one-man Angry Brigade and Uncut columnist

The Squire Of Somerton and The Black Neon are back