end of the road

Eccentric Scottish art-punk trio unleash fifth album

First album of original material for eight years

First UK release from powerful and strange Michigan singer-songwriter

With none of the inventiveness of 1990's brilliant Tourfilm—but sturdier than the disappointing Road Movie (1995)—this engrossing July 2003 gig from Wiesbaden, Germany, is pure Greatest Hits stuff. The usual stadium-thumpers are good, but true highlights are Stipe's own favourite, "Country Feedback" (no longer delivered with back to the audience), "She Just Wants To Be", "Walk Unafraid" and a dusted-off "Maps And Legends".

Smarter-than-it-looks biker flick

Retelling of the Gram Parsons story. Execrable

Italian kidnap drama from director Gabriel Salvatores

The rapturous romantics' classic third album makes waves again

That's as in Robert, the devil, and a hellhound, too...

Overlooked 1975 album from Lancashire balladeer with overtones of Bowie and Elton