Art collection

A mixed bag of late period reissues from the ancestors of S Club

Former 10,000 Maniac gal's long-mooted collection of traditional and contemporary folk songs

Athens, Georgia's finest back at the Academy, facing the future, taking on all comers

Soulful blood steps into the evolution and creativity bag

Last hurrah from cancer-stricken Uncut hero. Released in the US on August 26

Today's New York rockers, posturing Gotham dance music and yesterday's post-punkers from Blighty

Sixties group and session work from Britain's first truly 'modern' guitarist

Part of a triple DVD pack, this contains footage of German TV show Beat Club, a legendary showcase for the best bands of the era. Its late-'60s archive is now a valuable resource for DVD compilers. Like a visual companion to Uncut's Acid Daze CD given away two issues ago, Psychedelic High features Donovan, Arthur Brown, the Small Faces and The Nice all overlapping with that collection. The Who and The Moody Blues also attend what is mostly a very English psychedelic tea party, although The Byrds, Blue Cheer and Canned Heat fly the American freak flag.

Kim Fowley's hoss is impossible to tether. Six-and-a-half-feet tall, resembling the worst nightmare in The Phantom Of The Paradise, too ugly for the agency, Fowley was born on the day Hitler invaded Poland. He grew up in the last Babylonian days of Tarnished Hollywood.

Crotchety improv from Chicago's avant-roots collective