Mod revivalists' demos and rarities

Latest chapters in prestigious rock'n'roll roots series

Specially priced compilation lacking in sleevenotes

Some imagined that by Avalon, Roxy Music had degenerated into non-ironic AOR. But the sounds on this, the biggest-selling album of their career, are as avant-garde as anything they'd ever done, just more subtle, Ferry having exchanged art attack for ambient seduction. Remember this came out in spring 1982, as New Pop was peaking—it's as if the Godfather had returned to show the rookies how elegant isolation should really be expressed. Throughout there are expressions of Ferry's uncertainty, plus evidence they'd been listening to Joy Division and Jan Garbarek.

Box set of previously unheard recordings by most famous singer ever

Mark E Smith compilation overload continues

Second chapter doesn't begin to match Alan Rankine-assisted Vol 1

Now That's Not What I Call Goth

Karaoke homages from punk's fourth division

Anthologising nearly-lost gems from Lora Logic's arty post-punk outfit