Mark Beaumont

Euro 2016 inspires plucky Welsh team to go for gold

American Music Club founder and Suede impresario create Brel-folk

Compact, suite-like six-parter by the prolific English electronic music composer

Fascinating album-book from ex-Throwing Muse

Messy magic from the Leeds indie founders

Rundgren versus Partridge equals accidental classic

Short-changing sister piece to A Weird Exits.

Bush’s spectacular live return, minus the spectacle

Peeling at the disguises of The White Stripes’ unknowable mainman

The Wigan wonders’ primordial period

2002’s shit-kicking sleepover ages averagely

Greatness and indulgence on wicker-worshippers’ third

Emo-punk pioneers stick to the formula

Triple-CD revisit to Britpop’s grandest folly.

An NYC rock almanac from the city’s next great garage pop band

Cave’s devastating experimental exploration of grief

Indie legends produce their second-era magnum opus

Midlands duo deliver meat, but scrimp on substance

NWOBHM’s scene queens get their bite back

Emo pop pioneers Blink-182 blast away the post-DeLonge blues

The Madden brothers reunite for by-numbers emo cracker.

Chris Cornell's ‘unplugged’ night hits the right notes.

Stinking underwear and sublime uncertainty for Ray Davies’s on-the-road record.

Hefty, high-minded slab of Blackpool rock.