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Hayseed Dixie – Let There Be Rockgrass

"Downright disgusted and sick to the soul"of the music they were hearing out there, Hayseed Dixie cut 2001 debut A Hillbilly Tribute To AC/DC in two days, loaded on beer and bourbon. Now, from the (sadly) fictional valley of Deer Lick Holler, comes this: 12 Appalachian blasts through Kiss, Queen, Motörhead and more.

Mandarin – Fast›Future›Present

Atmospheric math-rock debut from Texan quartet

Twenty-ninth solo album from original Van Der Graaf generator

Code 46

Stylish, atmospheric future-noir

Like A Rat Out Of Hell

Crispin Glover scintillates in otherwise unremarkable horror remake

Janet Jackson – From Janet To Damita Jo

Stats show that Middle America's "mass moral outrage" at Janet's Superbowl boob-bearing came from a noisy couple of hundred. Her career may survive, then, though no thanks to this year's scrappy LP Damita Jo. This gathers all the videos from the last four, the best of which is "That's The Way Love Goes", where she maximises her feline moves, timid voice, and gorgeous loping grooves. But she's definitely in decline.

Buffalo Bill And The Indians

Robert Altman's wry comedy tackles the origins of modern showbiz and media manipulation in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show. Paul Newman plays the legendary 'star' as a bundle of neuroses who more than meets his match when the show is joined by Sitting Bull (Frank Kaquitts)—a man of principles, unimpressed by the razzamatazz. An enjoyable indictment of Hollywood.

Jim Croce – The Way We Used To Be

Exhaustive triple-disc anthology of '70s Philadelphian troubadour

The Tubes – Now

Reprised fun and frolics from Fee, Prairie and the girls

The Feminine Complex – Livin’ Love

Legendary debut album plus stripped-back demos from female pop pioneers that time nearly forgot
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