The Hold Steady's Open Door Policy finds new life beyond the burn-out By Mark Beaumont Brooklyn’s anthemic bar rockers The Hold Steady tell stories featuring a litany of beaten characters on Open Door Policy, but there's light in the darkness
Foo Fighters' Medicine At Midnight spikes grunge ballast with pop panache By Mark Beaumont Foo Fighters' Medicine At Midnight is Dave Grohl’s tightest set yet, with supernatural aid
Smashing Pumpkins mesh enigmatic synth-pop and mysticism on Cyr By Mark Beaumont Billy Corgan’s trademark sharp melodies fly on Smashing Pumpkins' upbeat synth-pop album Cyr
The Stranglers' Peaches highlights a career that veers from degeneration to delight By Mark Beaumont Peaches - The Very Best Of The Stranglers is a schizophrenic charge through classics and curios, and it's now on vinyl
Pink Floyd's Delicate Sound Of Thunder: now longer and lovelier than before By Mark Beaumont David Gilmour refocuses Pink Floyd on the remixed mighty live double Delicate Sound Of Thunder
Letter To You finds Bruce Springsteen full of wisdom yet still young at heart By Mark Beaumont Fast and live, the The Boss and the E Street Band rescue lost tunes and toast lost brothers on Letter To You
The Struts master the classic rock arts on third album Strange Days By Mark Beaumont An instant rock-down classic from The Struts on third album Strange Days (as long as you ignore the title track and Robbie Williams)
Bob Mould's Blue Hearts is music for smashing in the news channels By Mark Beaumont Hüsker Dü legend Bob Mould tackles the present American crisis on Blue Hearts
The Flaming Lips - American Head: The dark side of the 70s dream By Mark Beaumont The Flaming Lips have just released their new album American Head, and here's what we made of it
Pixies: Bossanova - a classic of rock futurism brought back from the past By Mark Beaumont Pixies' classic third album Bossanova, now available in delicious red vinyl to celebrate its 30th anniversary
The Blinders' Fantasies Of A Stay At Home Psychopath: the claustrophobic sound of our times By Mark Beaumont Fantasies Of A Stay At Home Psychopath by The Blinders is the definitive dark rock diatribe for lockdown Britain
The Airborne Toxic Event's Hollywood Park: a grandiose reflection on a tumultuous life By Mark Beaumont The Airborne Toxic Event's Hollywood Park is an autobiographical epic full of cults and glory
Brian Fallon's Local Honey: melancholy painted with modern oils By Mark Beaumont Gaslight Anthem mainman Brian Fallon pulls up a stool on Local Honey
Green Day have made a college jock party record and it's the best thing they've done in years By Mark Beaumont Green Day's new album Father Of All Motherf**kers is all out of politics (for now) – instead the Day party hard, 1950s style
Pink Floyd's The Later Years: when an 18 disc box set isn't quite enough By Mark Beaumont Even with remixed albums and live recordings, Pink Floyd's The Later Years box set isn't quite as thorough as it could have been
Taylor Hawkins & The Coattail Riders' Get The Money: the post-grunge Ringo’s All-Starrs By Mark Beaumont Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins delivers impressive solo LP Get The Money
Muse: Simulation Theory album review By Mark Beaumont Space rockers Muse go full San Junipero on new album Simulation Theory
Nine Inch Nails – Bad Witch album reviewed By Mark Beaumont Trent Reznor's merry men return with an album that sounds "like the end of music".
Johnny Marr - Call The Comet album review By Mark Beaumont Intense noir rock from the Smiths songwriter with a functioning moral compass
A Perfect Circle - Eat The Elephant album reviewed By Mark Beaumont A sophisticated return for Tool’s ‘feminine’ offshoot
Buffalo Tom - Quiet And Peace album review By Mark Beaumont Grunge’s forest-rock critters Buffalo Tom can still bare their teeth
Andrew WK - You’re Not Alone album review By Mark Beaumont Monumental return from party-metal overlord
Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac album review By Mark Beaumont In which Fleetwood Mac Mk 2 rises from two separate dumpers
Ezra Furman - Transangelic Exodus album review By Mark Beaumont Provocative soundtrack to a yet to be made movie
