end of the road

Fourth album proves crowning glory of Detroit duo's meteoric career to date

Veteran Louisiana-born country-soulster runs the gamut of musical styles and moods on her daring and dazzling follow-up to 2001's critically lauded Essence

The homecoming Boy has come a long way

Seriously hot B-movie schlock'n'roll on a flying saucer tip

Powerful debut after a decade's tough luck from hard-bitten New Jersey singer-songwriter

Unheralded Chicago-based tunesmith comes of age

Two EPs from modern-day Bob Dylan

Never before collected under one (legal) roof, Beach Boy's non-band '60s classics

Patchy South African drama from 2000 in which an actor, landing a role as a Soweto gangster, asks an authentic underworld figure and old school friend to show him the ropes of crime and carjacking. Lines get blurred. Director Oliver Schmitz makes some still-valid points about race and class issues, but it's no Bullets Over Broadway.

Almost Famous meets Thelma & Louise