end of the road

Seriously hot B-movie schlock'n'roll on a flying saucer tip

Powerful debut after a decade's tough luck from hard-bitten New Jersey singer-songwriter

Unheralded Chicago-based tunesmith comes of age

Two EPs from modern-day Bob Dylan

Never before collected under one (legal) roof, Beach Boy's non-band '60s classics

Patchy South African drama from 2000 in which an actor, landing a role as a Soweto gangster, asks an authentic underworld figure and old school friend to show him the ropes of crime and carjacking. Lines get blurred. Director Oliver Schmitz makes some still-valid points about race and class issues, but it's no Bullets Over Broadway.

Almost Famous meets Thelma & Louise

It's over a decade since former actor Will Oldham took his first faltering steps in a forgotten backwater of American music. When Oldham began recording with his brother Paul in 1992 he was recovering from a nervous breakdown, staking out an area that provided a refuge for his skewed, haunted but unusually perceptive sensibility.

Garage rock with an arty twist

Scorsese's much-anticipated, brutal epic blazes beautifully across the screen