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Theatre review: The Beaten Track, Musgrove Studio

Album review: El Camino - The Black Keys

Somehow, on last year's Brothers record, Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney of the Black Keys managed to sound like two stealth slackers. It had that swaggering, hip-hop-influenced blues rock sound that has become their trademark over the past 10 years.

Album review: Gorillaz, Singles Collection 2001-2011

If you're really going to celebrate a 10-year birthday, as Damon Albarn's cartoon band the Gorillaz are doing, then surely a deluxe double-disc collection of songs is the best way to go?

Movie review: Puss in Boots 3D

After four films and four happy endings, the <i>Shrek</i> franchise may have come to an end but the wonderfully entertaining spirit lives on thanks to its scene-stealing feline.

Album review: Roy Harper, Songs of Love and Loss

English folk-rocker Harper - now 70 - is much eulogised by senior British rock critics and has latterly been hailed by the neo-folk movement (Fleet Foxes, Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom).

Movie review: Red Dog

Red is well known across the ditch as the kelpie/cattle dog who roamed Australia in the 70s looking for his lost master.

Album review: Gym Class Heroes, The Papercut Chronicles II

Having collaborated with Fall Out Boy's Patrick Stump and Maroon 5's Adam Levine, Gym Class Heroes have some credit with those fan groups, and having Busta Rhymes and Estelle guest on 2008 album The Quilt earned them a few hip-hop fans.

Movie review: El Bulli: Cooking in Progress

At one point in this minutely attentive study of the fabled restaurant of the title, three of the chefs are at the market and ask the fishmonger for a single fish tongue.

Theatre review: Criminal Christmas, Herald Theatre