Texan noiseniks battle big beards and beer monsters to find life in the old rock yet

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.

America's most unforgiving musical satirist performs many of his classic songs in this solo European show

Much-adored Glasgow four-piece leave us suitably overawed

Rock'n'roll's leading dysfunctional couple play their biggest UK shows yet

Return of the Mac—another crazy episode in the longest-running soap opera in rock'n'roll

Ex-Velvet revisits the dark places of his astonishing solo career

December 14, 2003

So much to answer for... the Bard Of Bromley's back in fine forward-looking fettle with a scintillating combination of the old and the new

Shimmering performance by the Mother Superior of country rock