Adam

Mekons singer from Venus takes on the men from Mars

Immaculate debut from late developing troubadour

Superstar-studded tribute to Uncut's favourite singer-songwriter, who died last year

The reunited Crush core blow up your speakers

Welsh shellsuit devotees marry scatological humour to hip hop

Official bootleg from Brooklyn's big-hearted punk poet

Big Star man's missing 70s years

Stiller/Black pairing fails to rescue lacklustre yarn

When it was released in his native Hong Kong in August 1990, John Woo's brutal Vietnam-era epic Bullet In The Head was a box office disaster. Speaking to Uncut in April 2003, Woo remembered: "When we did the premiere, people just walked out...I felt totally exiled." Coming just over a year after the brutal massacre of students in Tiananmen Square, it's perhaps no surprise that the movie—called Die xue jie tou in Woo's native Cantonese, aka Bloodshed In The Streets—was too complicated, too downbeat, too pessimistic. And it is.

Much-travelled Carolinian marks return with compelling, grown-up pop record