Stephen Dalton

Mighty choruses and big emotions from troubled Australian synth-rockers.

High-voltage disco-punk heavyweights return with more energy than originality.

More monochrome musical movies from the Mancunian.

Tripping the light fandango with the dad’s army of Britrock.

The masters of English folk rock keep moving forward

The preaching Papa and co. deliver a devilishly good pop-metal show.

David Bowie's Blackstar: released just two days before his death in January 2016 - this was the review we published the day before it came out

It’s not just the way they tell ’em.

Veteran Britrockers paint their sixth album in 50 shades of disco, metal and glam rock.

Four-disc box set from County Durham’s premier new wavers in their late-70s prime.

Archive mischief from America’s premier disco-punk Dadaists.

Yorkshire’s answer to Brian Eno reboots his 1980s synth-rock archive.

Norwegian singer-songwriter brings her unique arty sound to Bristol.

Triumphant birthday bash gets the deluxe box-set treatment.

A narrow victory of substance over style.

Across the English channel, tragedy strikes. But in North Wales, rock’s warhorses pay tribute the only way they know how: by playing on.

Four sense-blitzing concert films from Satan’s favourite bubblegum thrash cheerleaders.

Post-rockers remix the past to map the future.

Former Bowie axeman mellows with age, but boy can he play guitar.

Sporadically interesting archive anthology from the bottom of a much-scraped barrel.

Punchy but pedestrian live album from former Smith.

Wordy rapping in the ‘hood with the indie Woody Allen.

The good, the average, the odd and the past-it give it their best shot.