A list of 20 of the best albums released between January 1 and June 30, 2025, including some familiar faces, newcomers and a ...

Hello, hello, it’s good to be back “You gonna wake up then, or what?” As we launch this new magazine, in the shops tomorrow, it’s exactly 31 years – almost to the minute – since Oasis first sauntered ...

Richard Linklater's emotionally ambivalent high school homage is a cutting riposte to the rosy teen nostalgia of both American Graffiti and the entire John Hughes canon. Set in Nowhere, Middle ...

Orbital’s decision to call it a day after 15 years won’t have shocked many. That they do so with such a sleek and satisfying sixth album?their best since 1994’s Snivilisation?comes as a ...

Since surfacing from the Detroit underground in 1993, Matthew Smith’s outfit have trodden an ever tangential path with infuriating results. Touching all bases from garage rock through prog ...

Despite an opening scene in which both father and son are entwined and writhing together (Alexei is being comforted by his father following a nightmare), Sokurov has indignantly refuted claims ...

The clinically style-obsessed Tony Scott might not have been everybody's choice to helm a Tarantino script just as St Quentin was white-hot (seems a while ago now, huh?), but he made a splendid ...

Collectors will want this compilation of Emmylou's early work for the inclusion of a duet with Johnny Cash on "Old Rugged Cross". Techno-buffs will want it for the crystalline 5:1 surround sound ...

IMPOSSIBLE PRINCESS BOTH BMG Kylie's career has mostly depended on tabloid smoke and mirrors; her faux gay-icon survival sustained by editors' insistence on the illusory perfection of her arse as ...

Extended edition of Bertolucci's lavish 1987 epic. OPENS MARCH 12, CERT 15, 218 MINS The Last Emperor tells the story of Pu Yi, installed as Lord Of Ten Thousand Years in 1908 at age three, only ...

San Franciscan rock satirists The Tubes actually pulled in some heavyweight support as they camped out in ’70s America. Drawing a fan club that included Captain Beefheart, Larry Graham, Stanley ...

Described by its proto-feminist French director Virginie Despentes as an attempt "to seize woman's true sexuality back from the male gaze", Baise-Moi is therefore a visceral, explicit re-imagining ...