Uncut

Second full LP from emo icons, with one new song. Plus Unplugged DVD

Disappointing retro-rock from Alan McGee's stable

Long-serving US singer-songwriter much lauded by Steve Earle

Tough trad Detroit garage. Recent touring partner Jack White was once a member

Swan song from Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy's post-punk trailblazers. Includes five add-ons

Following the attention heaped upon 2002's lovely I'm Coming Home, Norway's most famous ex-postman Thomas Hansen began to wilt, preferring to "hide behind the beer". Straightened out and under the wing of producer Mark Nevers (Lambchop), Hey Harmony is the product of a frantic's week recording in Nashville, spotlighting the 26-year-old's Anglophilia and US country-folk leanings. Sort of Neil Young and Donovan tripping at The Wicker Man's solstice fest.

Having met at Leicester Music College in 1998 and formed early last year, The Havenots are Sophia Marshall and Liam Dullingham, two young pups (20 and 22) whose smoke-weary delivery belies their tender years. Informed by Gram/Emmylou, Gillian Welch/David Rawlings and Uncle Tupelo, this is gentle smoulder for the most part, all languid, punt-down-the-river melodies and mountain-air acoustic guitars (courtesy of Samuel Harvey).

Bearded psych-poppers' premature midlife crisis

Former Fairground Attraction singer tackles Scottish institution

16 Horsepower frontman's score for a Belgian dance company