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The Rolling Stones: Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! Deluxe Edition

The Rolling Stones: Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! Deluxe Edition

Lavish, four-disc, 40th-anniversary version of their definitive live album

Spiritualized - Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized - Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Jason Pierce's cosmic masterpiece reissued and expanded

Jesca Hoop - Hunting My Dress

Second offering from singular Californian songstress

Rickie Lee Jones - Balm In Gilead

Rickie Lee Jones - Balm In Gilead

Triumphant return from queen of the hobohemians

Nirvana - Live At Reading

Nirvana - Live At Reading

Infamous Kurt Cobain festival appearance in '92, finally released on DVD

Norah Jones - The Fall

Norah Jones - The Fall

Aided by Ryan Adams, Norah moves away from dinner parties, and into her own heart of darkness

Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - The Live Anthology

Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - The Live Anthology

Thirty years of immaculate stagecraft, boxed

Deer Tick - Born On Flag Day

Deer Tick - Born On Flag Day

Barrelling, free-range country-folk from Rhode Island

Elvis Costello - Live At The El Mocambo

Elvis Costello - Live At The El Mocambo

First in a series of live documents, from a time when EC was a bit, well, tasty…

Nirvana - Bleach (R1989)

Nirvana - Bleach (R1989)

Remastered, deluxe edition of the Seattle grunge kings’ debut retains its sense of menace

Elbow - Asleep In The Back (R2001)

Elbow - Asleep In The Back (R2001)

Elegantly understated first, with extra audio disc/DVD

Flight Of The Conchords - I Told You I Was Freaky

Flight Of The Conchords - I Told You I Was Freaky

'Too many dicks on the dancefloor!' The album of Series Two, and still funny

Julian Casablancas - Phrazes For The Young

Julian Casablancas - Phrazes For The Young

Finally, a solo album from the Strokes man. Great.

U2 - The Unforgettable Fire: Remastered

U2 - The Unforgettable Fire: Remastered

25th-anniversary reissue of the rock giants’ ambitious fourth LP

Morrissey - Swords

Morrissey - Swords

18-track mixed-bag of b-sides and bonus tracks

Mott The Hoople - The Very Best Of Mott The Hoople

Mott The Hoople - The Very Best Of Mott The Hoople

Mott classics collected to mark recent reunion shows

Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of Fleetwood Mac

Excellent 2004 comp, bumped up to a 2CD

REM - Live At The Olympia

REM - Live At The Olympia

Re-inspired veterans accelerate through their rich, durable body of work

Devendra Banhart - What Will We Be

Devendra Banhart - What Will We Be

The freak-folk messiah confronts pop conventions on his first album for a major label

Cate Le Bon - Me Oh My

Cate Le Bon - Me Oh My

Whimsical acid folk from Gruff Rhys’ protégée

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Bruce Springsteen, Tame Impala, Rodriguez, George Clinton, John Fogerty, Prince and George Jones in new Uncut


I would have bought the issue of Melody Maker in which I first read about Bruce Springsteen on my way into the art school in Newport, where in March 1973 I was in my last term, only a few months away from moving to London and not long after that fetching up on MM as a junior reporter/feature...