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Hard to tell what's the main feature and what are the extras in this excellent four-part, three-hour package from Canada's heroes of spooked alt.country. There's an hour-long documentary on the Junkies' 2001 world tour, a Quebec festival appearance, Margo and Michael Timmins playing an acoustic set and the same pair in lengthy conversation to make it a must for all Cowboy Junkies fans.

Third album from mellifluous Vancouver country-popheads

Californian often hyped as the US Aphex

Two-band collaboration revisits Cracker faves in Richmond vs Nashville showdown

Across five studio albums and a live set, the first lady of folk comes to terms with new movement of singer/songwriters

Rare southern soul sides from disco diva's Muscle Shoals days

Daltrey and Townshend struggle for the high notes, the mic-throwing and the windmilling are stagey rather than spectacular, and the sound never really comes together as the hits roll on. But it's historic stuff—Entwistle's last show, and also the great Pixelon hoax, the Internet concert that never was.

Solo album from former Reindeer Section and Snow Patrol collaborator

Scottish seven-piece deliver John Peel's favourite album of the year

High-quality laptop jazztronica from the prolific Chicago-based collective