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Patchy selection from the man Quentin Tarantino called "a musical journalist, a chronicler of his time"

Unsatisfactory smattering by genius Memphis quartet/trio, the acme of twisted'70s power pop

Sole creative survivor of Canterbury scene further refines his art on eighth LP

Seventh studio album from inveterate Beach Boys fans

The four-track debut solo EP becomes 157 minutes of music over two CDs, with a bonus DVD

Celebrating the '80s electro-dance era, at least as it was perceived in New York clubs, this mixes period pounders with updated readings from contemporary exponents. Electroclash may not have taken off on cue, but there's a trickle-down situation now. You'll both laugh at and bounce about to Miss Kittin & The Hacker's irreverent "Frank Sinatra", Ladytron's comic "Seventeen" and Felix Da Housecat's "Money, Success, Fame, Glamour".

Re-release of NY punk-funk debut, with bonus disc

Five-CD set featuring four-and-a-half hours of new music recorded in 1970

A key tome in the lovers-on-the-lam canon, with uncredited mastershots from a fledgling Martin Scorsese, Honeymoon Killers is the tale of a bloated, psychotic nurse (Shirley Stoler—Divine meets Louise Fletcher), her oily Spanish lover (Tony Lo Bianco) and the various needy, neurotic, half-witted women they deceive and murder. Startling photography, am-dram performances, and deeply misogynistic.

Self-consciously sensitive US wimp-rock