Whether on acoustic or electric guitar, the British musician is in a class of his own

Artists from St Vincent to Wild Billy Childish demonstrated the instrument’s power and versatility

The album’s elements — voices, guitars, drums — sporadically coalesce into moments of crunchy rock or tense funk

The singer continues her journey to proper adult performer in an album that has the luxurious sheen of quality and money

Blues is the chief ingredient here, though there is ragtime and a more abstract approach in scritch-scratch guitar

Adrian Shergold’s story of a stand-up comedian and her miserable milieu ticks all the gritty-northern-period-drama boxes

The London trio’s debut album celebrates the gloriously solid, slabby, roaring sound of a Fender Telecaster

The artist’s voice is a dominant presence amid guitars, distressed piano, pounding beats and keyboard sounds

A journey into a sound-world of spectres and sorrows

A dizzying parade of images rushes by as Matt Tyrnauer’s film tells this story of life, death and tax-evasion

Father and son duetted on piano and guitar in an evening with a strong eastern flavour and sometimes hypnotic effect

A Todd Haynes film of two parallel storylines that takes us to some dark places

The American Utopia stageshow is drilled to within an inch of its life — and the result is utterly exhilarating

Visual gags and wordplay provide giggles in Aardman’s latest claymation caper about footballing cave people

Matt Damon joins a settlement of small people who live in a kind of theme-park suburb paradise-hell

This timely film falls flat despite a story that moves at a brisk pace, courtesy of kinetic camerawork and snappy dialogue

Having lost and regained her singing voice, Collins is a serene, smiling presence in this documentary

A Harvard professor of psychology, his brilliant wife, and a beautiful young student form a triangular relationship

More of a portrait than a narrative, this documentary depicts a life lived vividly, intensely, outrageously

Sally Potter’s film brings together a bunch of self-regarding, self-obsessed metropolitan liberal elitists

Three-disc set of the trailblazing California event has been sonically enhanced and expanded with out-takes

Singer Archy Marshall’s voice is unforgettable — and not necessarily for good reasons

The third instalment in the franchise is not a subtle affair in its portrayal of an irredeemably corrupt and violent humankind

Some of popular music’s great singers have been drawn to this old folk tune