Ten years after

The former Mrs Cobain emerges from rehab to release her debut solo album

Seattle songstress' magnificent fourth album finds her deep in fire and ice

Nico steals the show at Velvets' short-lived reunion

Imagine if the Doors, The Byrds or Love had, long after their late '60s heyday, reconvened to record a quartet of brilliant albums, the first a double LP of classic, even epic, proportions issued just months before punk broke.

A masterpiece of rap's golden age, now with second CD of extras

Conceived as a black Woodstock in '72, an act of healing seven years after LA's Watts district had been all but burned down in race riots to the chanting of "burn, baby, burn", Wattstax was also, in truth, a masterful idea for a showcase of all the Stax acts of the time. Still, hell of a concert—112,000 people watched seven hours of Isaac Hayes, The Staple Singers, The Bar-Kays, Rufus Thomas etc, and a legend was born.

Shimmering performance by the Mother Superior of country rock

Kevin Rowland's legendary rabble-rousers make a triumphant live return

All four movies from the interstellar belly-bursting-baddie franchise in extended form, plus five discs of extras

Who'd have thought after the debacle of Velvet Goldmine that Todd Haynes' next film would be as clever, meaningful and powerfully resonant as this masterpiece of stylised social commentary? In the 1950s, the expatriate German director Douglas Sirk directed a series of Hollywood films that at the time were sniffily known as "women's pictures", which only later were recognised as brilliantly crafted satires, as sharply observed as novels like Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates' classic dissection of the Eisenhower years.