Album

Hard to tell what's the main feature and what are the extras in this excellent four-part, three-hour package from Canada's heroes of spooked alt.country. There's an hour-long documentary on the Junkies' 2001 world tour, a Quebec festival appearance, Margo and Michael Timmins playing an acoustic set and the same pair in lengthy conversation to make it a must for all Cowboy Junkies fans.

Third album from mellifluous Vancouver country-popheads

Californian often hyped as the US Aphex

Two-band collaboration revisits Cracker faves in Richmond vs Nashville showdown

Across five studio albums and a live set, the first lady of folk comes to terms with new movement of singer/songwriters

Rare southern soul sides from disco diva's Muscle Shoals days

Self-styled "desert-surf-redneck" rawk from the other side of the tracks

Inordinately well-connected new rapper

One of pop's great female voices turns to standards, with starry guests

Modfather becomes third in celebrity compilation series