Music with rocks in arrives in Ankh-Morpork and Death's granddaughter takes over the family business.
Bob Dylan's memoir, mostly about the years nobody asked about.
Alex Ross on the twentieth century through its classical music, Strauss to Adams.
David Byrne on why music sounds the way the room lets it.
Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe in the Chelsea Hotel; the memoir of a friendship.
Keith Richards remembers more than he should; the rock memoir.
A qualifying campaign for every nation on the way to France, and Blur playing Song 2 over the menu.
Pick up fares and drop them at the door before the meter runs out, to a soundtrack of The Offspring.
Click circles to the beat; the free rhythm game with a million maps.
Anti-gravity ships to a Chemical Brothers soundtrack; the PlayStation as a club.
Race down a track generated from your own MP3s; 2008's Steam surprise.
Drum along in the arcade with a big red taiko; Namco's rhythm staple.
Cheerleading agents rescue people through rhythm; the DS oddity.
Mini-games of pure rhythm; Nintendo's weirdest series.
A beetle on a track to a violent beat; rhythm violence.
A roguelike where you move to the beat; the dance-pad dungeon.
Tetris with a Rez soundtrack and VR; Mizuguchi makes blocks transcendent.
Slice blocks with lightsabers to the beat in VR; the best-selling VR game.
Rhythm levels to Black Betty and the best 2D platforming of its decade; Ubisoft Montpellier.
Inline-skating graffiti gangs in a cel-shaded Tokyo; the Dreamcast's style.
A plastic guitar and five coloured buttons; the party game of the 2000s.
Arrows on a floor mat and a cabinet in every arcade; the rhythm game that got people moving.
A robed figure walks to a mountain with a stranger who cannot speak; two hours you remember.
Roll a sticky ball over everything until it is a star; the Namco oddity with the best soundtrack.
Guitar, bass, drums and a microphone in one living room; Harmonix's full band.
A windswept Atlantic port with 18th-century ramparts, a fish market and kitesurfing on the beach.
Music City: the Grand Ole Opry, honky-tonks on Broadway and hot chicken.
Graceland, Sun Studio where Elvis recorded, Beale Street blues and the Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel.
The live-music capital: SXSW, bats under the Congress bridge and breakfast tacos.
The Motown Museum, the Henry Ford, Art Deco skyscrapers and a comeback story.
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