Cosmic Yorkshiremen return to earth

The Orrible Oo's classic video jukebox rockumentary gets a 25th anniversary makeover

Heavy rock: Music made by the intellectually challenged for 13-year-olds. To be sung as if your nads are in the process of dropping. It's funny: finally people have realised this, chuckling 'ironically' as they buy Darkness records and now enjoy the broad comic strokes of School Of Rock, which is directed by the highly unlikely figure of Richard Linklater. It's set alight, however, by the highly broad figure of Jack Black, a man who can't help but be funny in everything he does.

Delightful, dashing debut from Scottish punk-funksters

Lord Percival surveys his manor of song and declares it most fine

Long-awaited re-release for one of the great lost albums of the early '70s

Two discs including tracks from albums one to four and five to eight. Oh, and the best hard rock ever recorded

Long-mooted supergroup finally release debut

Breathtaking box set exhaustively chronicling Purple's live and rare heritage

Danny Boyle's arty horror flick started brilliantly, ended badly, and was scored by a fast-rising Brit, John Murphy. But the musical highlight is Blue States' "Season Song", which is both chilling and reassuring. Brian Eno's "An Ending (Ascent)" is also ambivalently touching, while Grandaddy are, as ever, incapable of dullness. Not sure why Godspeed You! Black Emperor's efforts for the film don't feature, but Perri Alleyne's "Ave Maria" should cheer up disappointed crazed extremists.