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Blue Thumb label-era Love. Includes a ho-hum summit meet with Hendrix

Welcome compilation from passionate and expansive south Londoners

The 10 individual CDs from 2001's box set, documenting the rise of the Dead from folky beginnings to fully-fledged masters of the cosmos

Rough and ready rarities package

Plastic pop tarts' revival confirmed by box set

Vintage blues and then some from revered bluesman

Format-busting electro jamboree spans 20 years of machine music

Companion piece to last year's live-in-the-UK comp. Includes San Francisco's 1966 add-on "Avalon Blues"

Their extraordinary evolution as heard through John Peel's Top Gear

Memphis power pop is such an ever-expanding genre that Big Star's Alex Chilton, the godfather of the scene, must wish he'd taken out copyright. The Scruffs are one of several pre-Replacements acts who tapped into that antsy girls-on-my-mind mood and pursued the blend of melancholia with added rock'n'roll rush to a logical conclusion. Fronted by Stephen Burns, this second Scruffs album (recorded in 1978/9) contains band staples like "Go Faster", "Alice, Please Don't Go" and the post-Flamin' Groovies blood-letting of "Treachery".