Can: a guide to their best albums By Kris Needs Can’s classic albums sound only like themselves, yet the band’s influence lives on. These are their best albums
On Assembly, Joe Strummer's untameable rock’n’roll spirit rears vividly back to life By Kris Needs Assembly is a post-Clash ‘greatest hits’ from Joe Strummer that heralds new Dark Horse label reissue deal
Siouxsie And The Banshees: the story of the band who band who saved punk from parody and invented goth By Kris Needs Siouxsie And The Banshees made incredible music and gave rock a true icon. The editor of Zigzag magazine at the time of their rise tells the band's story
Alice Cooper's Detroit Stories is his most concise bolt of precision-tooled heavy rock in 50 years By Kris Needs Fifty years since Love It To Death, Alice Cooper revisits his birth city and forges a late-life classic with Detroit Stories
Hollywood Undead's New Empire: Volume 2 is another chance to bedroom mosh By Kris Needs The seventh album from ever-masked LA rap-rockers successfully brings the bombast
Derek & The Dominos' Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs celebrates its 50th birthday - and what a party it is By Kris Needs Eric Clapton’s defining one-off supernova, Derek & The Dominos' Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs, gets a half-century vinyl upgrade
John Lennon's Gimme Some Truth gains a new sheen on the Ultimate Mixes By Kris Needs John Lennon's Gimme Some Truth is part of rock’s fabric, and here it gets a brand new lustre
Pretenders: Hate For Sale - Chrissie Hynde’s fire is undimmed By Kris Needs Still great Pretenders on 11th studio album Hate For Sale
Enuff Z'Nuff's Brainwashed Generation - a band flying high again By Kris Needs Brainwashed Generation is the fifteenth album from hair-power-pop veterans Enuff Z'Nuff
The Vacant Lots' Interzone: the perfect stun-blast soundtrack for a shattered society By Kris Needs Society-lacerating third album Interzone from Vermont electro-punks The Vacant Lots
Iggy Pop's Bowie Years: the resurgence of the punkfather By Kris Needs Iggy Pop's 1977 twin towers, Bowie-branded and expanded with familiar extras
Sir Lord Baltimore's Complete Recordings: revelatory, and endlessly entertaining By Kris Needs Gloriously untamed proto-metal unearthed on Sir Lord Baltimore's The Complete Recordings: 1970-2006
Phil Campbell's Old Lions Still Roar: Lemmy would be proud By Kris Needs Life after Lemmy sees Phil Campbell's mane event realised with star-studded solo album Old Lions Still Roar
Nick Cave’s Ghosteen: turning life-altering grief into other-worldly beauty By Kris Needs Nick Cave’s new album Ghosteen is an astonishing work which sees him transform his grief into a poetic masterpiece
Little Steven & The Disciples Of Soul: Summer Of Sorcery album review By Kris Needs Timely defiance from E Street Band legend Little Steven, with new album Summer Of Sorcery
Keith Richards: Talk Is Cheap (30th Anniversary) album review By Kris Needs Rolling Stone Keith Richards' 1988 solo debut gets major expansion job – in real Fender wood!
Steve Miller Band - Complete Albums Volume 1 (1968-1976) review By Kris Needs Not yet rated Steve Miller’s tale told through first nine albums, now remastered. Available separately too
Wishbone Ash - The Vintage Years 1970 - 1991 box set review By Kris Needs Wishbone Ash blaze, crash-dive and become yacht-rock captains on this monolithic, 30-CD box set
Lure, Burke, Stinson, Kramer - L.A.M.F. Live At The Bowery Electric - review By Kris Needs Back to the Bowery
Imperial State Electric - Anywhere Loud album review By Kris Needs Swedish high-energy rockers live double
Jimi Hendrix - Both Sides Of The Sky album review By Kris Needs Jimi’s 21st-century rebranding climaxes with the final part of a posthumous trilogy
The Story Behind The Song: The Ramones - Rockaway Beach By Kris Needs After moving to New York to escape an abusive father, pre-Dee Dee Ramone Doug Colvin wrote a song about the coastal escape he enjoyed and frequented, and it became a Ramones classic
Chris Carter - Chris Carter’s Chemistry Lessons, Volume One album review By Kris Needs Not yet rated New electronic milestone blows up the lab
Beautify Junkyards - The Invisible World Of Beautify Junkyards album review By Kris Needs Not yet rated Deep in the woods glows a masterpiece from Beautify Junkyards
