Possessed

Late Saturday afternoon, I was sat at the computer checking football scores when I received an email from Mark Golley, as passionate and assiduous a Neil Young fan as I’ve ever come across. “Check out the front page of neilyoung.com,” it advised.

Neil Young called Time Fades Away his “worst album”, but this most elusive release is also one of his most important

Fired up by disco and punk, Jagger’s swagger returns, with a disc of unreleased songs...Wrongly or rightly, the allegations against the Stones came thick and fast in 1977. They’d lost their edge. They’d become gluttonised, lazy, too rich and bored to care. Some of them had the temerity to be in their mid-thirties (NME called them “The Strolling Bones”). The urgent sound of punk had made their jet-set rock seem passé.

All six studio albums reissued, with many extras...

A prodigious talent finds new intensity on her third album

44 films celebrating the folk customs, songs and dances of Great Britain...

Top-drawer retrospective from the super-sessioneer turned solo great...

Mean, whimsical, portentous, playful… It’s complicated...

At times, sifting through a modern record collection, it can feel as if all roads lead eventually to Josh Homme. Entryist indie bands like the Arctic Monkeys employ him to help them pack extra rock muscle.

Ten old songs, freshly minted by Scots folk master...