Album

The great dance music innovators' final concert, recorded live at the Budokan in April 1996

Guitar legend's moving valediction

'Godfather of goth' hires former Birthday Party producer Nick Launay for 'urgent' 12th album

New Hope, PA nutters started out with a Casio and then bled rock's corpse dry

Second and third pre-Stankonia albums from Atlanta funk-hop giants, at mid-price

Thirty-six axe-wielders in mostly reflective mood

New instalment of 'alt.folk soap opera'

Budget-priced 14-track compilation by Kid 606-style avant-techno types

After the steamy funk of Boogie Nights and the Aimee Mann tearjerkers of Magnolia, PT Anderson's new film basks in heady strings and wonky harmoniums, scored by regular collaborator Jon Brion. It's deliberately dizzying and disorientating, and not always pleasurable. But the borrowing of Nilsson's "He Needs Me" from Altman's Popeye, sung with sugary desire by Shelley Duvall, is inspired. Waiting to interview Anderson in a hotel lobby recently, I congratulated Emily Watson on her singing of this. It's the only thing I've ever said to Emily Watson.

Radio-friendly Norwegian beat mavericks raised on R.E.M. and Teenage Fanclub