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The ‘Burn – Sally O’Mattress

Noel Gallagher-endorsed Blackburn quintet deliver strong debut

Burning Ambition

Incendiary Leyton rappers light the long-awaited way to an authentic UK style

This Month In Soundtracks

DA Pennebaker, that eminent celluloid chronicler of live rock (Don't Look Back, Down From The Mountain), filmed the farewell Ziggy show (July 3, 1973, Hammersmith Odeon), and now Tony Visconti's remixed the soundtrack for a 30th anniversary double CD special edition (the film's out on DVD, too). Bowie's between-song banter is included for the first time, most notably the big bold brouhaha of the bye-bye speech. And "The Width Of A Circle" is present in all its noisy, unedited, 16-minute glory.

Wayne Shorter – Alegria

Latest from thriving '60s jazz veteran

Wayne Kramer – Adult World

The Hellacopters and Syd Straw aid MCS guitarist on fourth solo LP

Turbonegro

Saucy punk-metal benchmarks from '96 and '98

Lenny Bruce – Lenny Bruce Originals Vol 2

Bad taste personified, they said. Comic genius, in other words

Narc

Gritty cop thriller favours style over surprises

Death In Venice

Re-release of 1971 Visconti classic

Horror Roundup

American thriller writer Peter Neal (Tony Franciosa) arrives in Rome to publicise his latest novel. Then people start dying in increasingly grisly ways—all copied from Neal's book. Dario Argento's long-banned blood-drenched whodunnit is released in uncut form for the first time... but this hasn't cured the gaping holes in the plot. For gorehounds only.
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