Mark Beaumont

J-Pop meets Megadeth – and the results are impossible to resist.

Genesis keyboard wizard inches toward the mic.

Leisurely, long-awaited fourth from Canadian psych rockers.

A seventh curveball from the post-blues Austin crazies.

It’s all about the bass.

Reformed Britpop originators create second-era masterpiece.

LA alt.rockers turn up the Sunset synths.

Three-piece bask in the weak glow of vinyl’s golden age.

Raucous water-treading from Australian retro ‘mothers.

Brixton’s grossest band zone out on second album.

Italians’ rock gets lost in translation.

That joke isn’t funny anymore.

Three-hour compilation of the roots-rockers’ Frisco residency

Evergreen Irish power trio cause structural damage in West London.

Soundtrack to the live film of the show.

Morricone for gutter snakes.

Davy Henderson’s cranky masterpiece revisited.

The alien sex fiends’ debut album reissued.

Rootsy class from the Albert Hall’s longest-standing tenant.

Float-away Aussie hippie folk, curiously short on magic reptiles.

Rage crush Cowell, throw massive party.

The Mode mainman’s second Soulsavers collaboration is album of two halves, Brian.

Nu-shoe meets Perthedelia, at last.

The Brit-Grunge movement shifts up an oily gear.

A 60s brown sound from the Sheffield politico, Noel says.