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Lou Rawls – I Can’t Make It Alone; The David Axelrod Years

Near-fatal 1958 car crash fails to prevent career resurrection

The Faint – Wet From Birth

Nebraskan new wavers make a canny swerve for fourth LP

Comets On Fire – Blue Cathedral

Saucer-eyed Santa Cruz psych-noise

The Prodigy – Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned

Nineties electro-punk megastars return

Tony Joe White – The Heroines

"Polk Salad Annie"man joins forces with the country-soul sisterhood

Bark Psychosis – Codename: Dustsucker

First LP in a decade by UK avant rockers

Ben Christophers – The Spaces In Between

Wolverhampton maverick's third album

Parka Life

Now that Oasis have been written into British rock history alongside The Beatles, The Sex Pistols and all those other elder statesmen they so publicly admired and absorbed, 1984's Definitely Maybe survives as a revered, although sometimes distant, memory. These days when Oasis play Glastonbury, there are waves of excitement but no huge hullabaloo about their perfunctory parade of greatest hits, and their albums have ceased to generate the expectation, the queues around the block in Oxford Street, that was once the norm.

High Elf Esteem

From cross-legged cult to major pop star in three years. The first five albums, plus outtakes and alternate versions

Thirteenth Floor Elevators – Bull Of The Woods

Psych-garage stompers' '69 LP reissued
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