Remember when Jane’s Addiction weren’t a stadium-rock parody of the band they started out as? Middle Class Rut strip that down to the basics, and it rules.

Dave Wyndorf and the Monster Magnet circus roll into Manchester, and roll back out again leaving grins on every fan’s face, no matter how long-standing.

Trail‘s new single “Killing Sun” is pretty much everything that To The End Of the World, their album from earlier this year, promised but failed to be.

If the last few Monster Magnet albums have disappointed, Mastermind might be the one to win you back over with its solid consistency and classic Wyndorf stories.

Take a look over the lip of the void: Black Mountain return with Wilderness Heart, a lushly gloomy collection of stoned-out psyche-rock, drug-blues and protometal.

Don’t let the hipster imagery put you off too much: Tweak Bird have got all the glorious dumb noise-riffola but not much of the irony on their debut album.

Now listen up: if it’s spit’n'sawdust bar-room blues-rawk’n'roll you’re after, it doesn’t come much louder or more fun than a Nashville Pussy live set.

Synthetic rockers The Culprit might be a little too glossy for this jaded hack, but their eponymous album might turn the heads of younger less cynical listeners.

You can’t stop the rock’n'roll, and you certainly can’t stop Israeli garage loons Monotonix from touring and penning loud, brief and charmingly noisy records.

Stoner-rock bodhisattvas My Sleeping Karma spin the wheel of rebirth a third time on Tri, which is heavy post-rock or mellow post-metal, or something in between.