end of the road

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

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

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.

Two-CD remastered reissue of the infamous pop opera, with unreleased tracks

Van Sant's stark, poetic recreation of Columbine

NYC's queens of kitsch mine classic-rock vault

His Bobness kicks up a storm among the seven hills and proves he's still armed to the teeth

Self-styled "desert-surf-redneck" rawk from the other side of the tracks

Incandescent instrumental rock from Austin, Texas

Nashville legend's formative years unearthed