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Uncut's John Mulvey reports from the music world's biggest annual conference in Texas

Limp set from the polite person's Pretenders

Doyens of orchestral disco celebrate 35th birthday with best album for aeons

Alex Cox, maverick writer-director of Repo Man and Walker, on a newly extended version of Sergio Leone's epic

Long overdue repackaging for small yet perfectly formed back catalogue of much-missed early-'80s avant-cuties. Plus lashings of extras

Chinese-Maori singer-songwriter delivers album of eerie beauty

Given the parlous state of contemporary jazz singing (Diana Krall? Elvis, how could you?), Lea DeLaria, a butch dyke from St Louis with a dirty mouth and a deliciously wicked sense of humour, is all the more remarkable. Growing up with jazz in her veins, she was previously best known as a comic (she's also been a Broadway star), but singing is clearly her vocation.

NYC duo possibly too fashionable for their own good

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

Potent jazz piano trio debut