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Career anthology that runs out of steam halfway through

Sixth terrific solo album from hedonistic, nihilistic Seattle survivor

In the mid-'80s Alex Cox, having made Repo Man and Sid & Nancy to some acclaim, was deemed a financially viable punk auteur. This changed after Straight To Hell, his surreal anti-comedy-cum-spaghetti-western, which had a peculiar genesis. Cox had booked a bunch of less than abstemious musicians for a Solidarity Tour of Nicaragua.

Latest instalment in one man's crusade to keep the spirit of the '60s alive

Third album proper from ex-Boo Radley Martin Carr

Big Star man's missing 70s years

Dolls man hooks up with MC5 guitarist in predictably volatile combination

Demented third from Grammy-nominated Liverpudlian misfits

Listless ambi-minstrel recruits post-rock royalty

Third nu-soul album by sometime writing partner of D'Angelo