Ten years after

Awesome rebirth of original Country Queen, produced and arranged by The White Stripes' Jack White

Serious contender for De Niro's greatest ever movie

Twentieth solo album and full-scale return to form from the artist formerly known as TR-I

First part of Tarantino's kick-ass grindhouse homage testifies to his awesome directorial development

The Orrible Oo's classic video jukebox rockumentary gets a 25th anniversary makeover

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.

Third album from Scottish indie four-piece has roughly accurate title

Cut from classic troubadour cloth, North Carolinan Holcombe has been recording for 20 years, though dogged by bad luck (dropped by Geffen, his previous album, A Hundred Lies, was only released after fans Steve Earle and Lucinda Williams found him a label). His husk of a voice and country-blues finger-picking is reminiscent of Eric Andersen and Tim Hardin, but closest to JJ Cale. The 48-year-old's stream-of-consciousness lyricism is unique, though, bearing the scars of a troubled past.

Her ninth studio album, and first after leaving Arista, her home since 1975

Robert Altman's offbeat '70s transposition of Chandler's noir classic