Finnish retro-punks I Walk The Line boil up some psychobilly clichés and pub-rock hooks into an uninspired but enjoyable album.

Paul Hawkins & Thee Awkward Silences are either the ultimate in post-structuralist anti-rock … or simply a bit bloody odd.

Fuzz-pop Los Angelino duo No Age roll on in with half an hour of lo-fi noise and blissful hooks on début album Nouns.

The Subways are back on the road in May - here’s some in-studio video footage to tide you over until the dates arrive.

No sleep ’til Tel Aviv … Israel’s Monotonix distil six tracks of raucous garage rock’n'roll fun onto Body Language.

Paralyzed is the superb sophomore album from Witch, the garage-stoner metal band featuring J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr. on drums.

Indie label Fantastic Plastic are about as far from having a single sound as possible … here on Now That’s What We Call Music Volume 1, your fiver gets you sixteen tracks that cover a wide variety of styles.