Zapp

Reprised fun and frolics from Fee, Prairie and the girls

Psych-garage stompers' '69 LP reissued

In 1968, Raybert productions—a Hollywood hotbed of drugged-out '60s fornication—saw fit to hand would-be-Fellini Bob Rafelson The Monkees as a vehicle for his auteurist debut. This was the result.

Second album from '60s NY oddball, aka piano man Stephen Friedland

Concussive debut album from New York avant-rockers

Zappa's late-'70s antics and muso wanking redeemed only by sexy claymation

Ambitious and imaginative song cycle from Roy Harper's son

Staggeringly diverse re-releases from Belgian label a decade ahead of its time

Also released this month... Shining like a beacon in the depressing pre-Christmas landscape of mouldy old video collections and dodgy concert films is Jane's Addiction's Three Days SANCTUARY Filmed by Carter Smith and Kevin Ford on the band's 1997 Relapse tour, it's a fully-realised piece of rock cinema that dramatically transcends the limitations of your average tour documentary.

Space-punk brilliance