end of the road

BBC documentary takes a dark ride into the Deep South

The Pixies and The Cure turn up the desert heat at the fifth Coachella Festival

Brooklynite Jon DeRosa's outfit are deceptive. At face value, PHAR offer little more than a sad shuffle, the odd cracked waltz and scattered flurries of noise. But give it time and these trampled-heart melodies burrow under the skin. Last year's Uncut-endorsed These Are The New Good Times was DeRosa's stoned-slacker take on slo-mo country mores, but here he broadens the palette with the addition of Low collaborator Marc Gartman as co-songwriter and ex-Mercury Rev pedal-steeler Gerald Menke.

Sparky, angular second from luckless young Brit-rockers

Second release from Californian dreamers

Emboldened by live triumphs, pop's one true genius re-enters the studio

Despite drug battles and internal strife, Jeff Tweedy's band sound newly liberated

Dazzling selection from back catalogue of the "cosmic" country visionary who changed the face of American music

Sorely overdue reissue of a masterpiece of '60s Brit improv, complete with previously unissued material

First 'solo' album appended with Beserkley Chartbusters tracks including "Roadrunner (Once)", and the one with "Egyptian Reggae" on it