RATM guitarist and hardcore troubadour participates in dodgy agit rap/rock experiment.

Weird but exhilerating outing from Williamsburg Hipsters.

Stonking new record from former Lad rockers. Who’d have thought?

Warm-hearted folk pop from New England.

Ragged glories from punk's oddball.

Steady as she goes on AOR eighth outing.

Emo pin-ups milk last moments of glory

Shakey’s long awaited archives box set.

Franz Ferdinand attempt to put some dub in the music and end up with (re)mixed results.

Essentially, the record finds Phoenix doing what they do supremely well – danceable indie-pop with touches of shoegaze guitar and ambient electro.

Assuming they haven’t all grown up by now, Manson fans will adore every dark, juvenile flourish. For the rest of us, The High End Of Low serves as a cautionary tale of artistic regression.

Pittsburgh gene-splicers manage to overcome three minute attention deficit barrier.

Further mystical adventures from grunge-era Kate Bush.

Brit pop aesthete goes Rawk--sort of.

Snoozy delights from the polyphonic twee whose outright nerdiness is charming.

Wayward offering from hip hop legend with distinct lack of finesse.

Quietly bucking the trend are The Shortwave Set, whose follow-up to 2005’s The Debt Collection confounds convention by actually being pretty good.

Widescreen return from Jam wannabes.

Nuptial celebrations yield surreal pleasures from Odd-ball Americana Folkies.

Welcome to the (haunted) house of fun.

21-year-old future-dystopian grime DJ breaks new ground.

Good, not great, comeback from epic Mancs.

Craggy eco-concept record not the car-crash it could have been.

Quality electro from Canadian groove mechanics.

Raw, beguiling psychedelia from Californian newcomers.

Food-obsessed lyrics tinged with medieval mischief.

NYC art-rockers go in for some ch-ch-changes on excellent third album.

Swedes living la vida on curious new outing.