Montreal retro-rockers Priestess bring the proto-thrash riffola and seventies melodics back to heavy metal on their second album, Prior To The Fire.

Cumbrian rockers Falling Red play respectable retro cock-rock with straight faces, and they make a decent job of it on debut album Shake The Faith.

Finely-named Welsh retro-poppers Houdini Dax us a BBC live session to resurrect the fun vibe of late sixties psyche-rock without the dumb chindie swagger.

Apparently, Reading-born Meretto moved to London to chase their dreams of indie-rock stardom. Hopefully they’ve got themselves jobs to while away the long wait.

The New Wave Of British Heavy Metal has seemingly never stopped washing over the Midlands; take a trip Into The Volcano with retro-thrashers Last Stop China Town.

Great, a new Black Lips single. “Drugs” is two and a half minutes of your life you’ll never get back, but the Faris Rotter B-side cover version is OK by comparison.

Put on your dancing shoes and prepare your most foppish expression – London’s electro-goth dandies Haunts are back to remind you that “Love is Blind”.

Long-lived lords of Los Angeles drone-psychedelia The Warlocks bring the darkness and the volume to a tiny cupboard somewhere in Southampton.

VR shows that dreadfully-named retro-rockers Fury UK have got the stylistic licks, er, licked. Shame about the massively cliched songs, though.

Hey, yeah – you heard the new Black Lips single yet? “I’ll Be With You”? Yeah, it’s – well. Y’know, it’s like, ah – a bit of a non-event, frankly.