Album

Cobain-approved country punks

Three DVDs which catch the rock'n'roll maverick onstage and backstage

Two albums featuring the elven genius of new folk

This is the perfect album for your inner schizo Francophile hippie. Factually based in the late '60s, but so wilfully mixed up it's very postmodern-ly now, one of its personalities is fuzzily made up of Hendrix, The Doors and the Grateful Dead (plus actor Michael Pitt murdering "Hey Joe" with his band). The other's stylishly into nouvelle vague, with blissful borrowed excerpts from the scores to The 400 Blows, Breathless and Pierrot Le Fou, and warblings from Françoise Hardy and Edith Piaf.

Two best-ofs, including first new studio recordings in 22 years

Lost soft-pop masterpiece from Nashville arranger and former Elvis cohort

On-the-road documentary trailing Nashville's own Lazarus Man

High voltage debut from Texas rockers

Nineteenth album from a great American storyteller

Sweet '70s jazz-funk revisited