4CD rarities box shows Rod’s genius was alive during the big-hair years

Major Tom returns with an additional disc of alternate mixes and session takes

California collective cover themselves

Riveting live album, plus bonus disc of 1978 concert

Screen queen turned rocker launches new war on Terra

Sheffield Hallam University to honour Pulp singer next month

Slaughtered Lamb venue for 'deep listening' brooklyn duo

The charity album is on sale today, check out what to expect here

Finding a place for Bob Dylan's 34th studio album in one of recorded music’s greatest solo catalogues is a perilous business. From its first rattle of sleighbells, “Christmas In The Heart” demands to be compared not with this year’s “Together Through Life”, but, perhaps, with “The Twelve Songs Of Christmas”, by Jim Reeves. “Christmas In The Heart” is a collection of 15 traditional Christmas songs, played in glimmeringly traditional style, pushed into leftfield by a pretty off-the-wall choice of lead vocalist.

Heath Ledger's final scenes in Gilliam's latest, plus Tom Waits!