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JJ, Sonny and Joe enlist some top pals for a nostalgic yomp

NYC nu-punk trio live and loud, with bonus Spike Jonze documentary

Only a perverse spoilsport could claim that Neil Young was not a giant among the North American singer-songwriters who emerged in the '60s. For this reviewer, he dwarfs all of them. Young is greater even than his hero Bob Dylan because he is more Heart than Head, more Body than Brain. There's something intuitive and primitively intense about Young's best music that Dylan rarely matches. More Dionysus than Apollo, Young puts music first, words second. And what music it is.

Four-disc overview of Dagenham Diva

Disappointing return from Creedence lynchpin

Two years on from first album Delicate Shades Of Grey, Anglo-American duo Cicero Buck return with a more confident set of folk-pop songs. Songwriter/vocalist Kris Wilkinson is particularly effervescent on the tough "Gonna Fly" and the rippling Nashville skiffle of "Little Songbird", while Muscle Shoals veteran Jack Peck adds brass to the dusty twang of "Black Road".

Sinewy side-project from leader of Washington DC heroes Canyon

Great debut from modern psychedelic primitives

First solo album from gospel legend in more than a decade

Carol Clerk, who covered Live Aid for Melody Maker, on the newly released DVD of the global rock spectacular