Circle one

Anti-Bush manifesto from perennial protest singer

All thirty tracks from Uncut Take 92. Tracks that inspired and tracks inspired by Bob Dylan.

Brit actress makes half-decent debut

Superstar-studded tribute to Uncut's favourite singer-songwriter, who died last year

Tweedy and what's left of his band are further vindicated in crackling, moving display

Now that Oasis have been written into British rock history alongside The Beatles, The Sex Pistols and all those other elder statesmen they so publicly admired and absorbed, 1984's Definitely Maybe survives as a revered, although sometimes distant, memory. These days when Oasis play Glastonbury, there are waves of excitement but no huge hullabaloo about their perfunctory parade of greatest hits, and their albums have ceased to generate the expectation, the queues around the block in Oxford Street, that was once the norm.

Melodiously laid-back adult pop

Brad Pitt grabs a shield and gets all mythological

Kevin Smith goes mature and mainstream

Emerging in 2001 with "Circle", a collaboration with Doseone of the oddball cLOUDDEAD collective, Boom Bip was an onomatopoeically perfect alias for the creator of glitchy, goofy-footed hip hop. Now, it's doubtful Bryan "Boom Bip" Hollon would describe what he does as hip hop in any way. Corymb (it's botanical) is a giddily gorgeous collection of remixes (Boards Of Canada, Four Tet and others) and new tracks.