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US indie quintet calm the country and blast the rock

All dressed up and somewhere to go—Oklahoma visionaries in resplendent spectacle

Legendary creator of arguably the finest psychedelic album ever recorded makes a passionate return

Awesome trance-rock newcomers

Successor to 2000's Ghetto Love debut by 23-year-old soul great in waiting. Mary J Blige guests

Second album of bruised brilliance from London-via-South Wales trio

Why 511? Because, on June 2, 2002, New Order performed in front of 10,000 rain-lashed revellers at Finsbury Park, and their 16-song set list comprised five Joy Division tracks and 11 by the band they became following the suicide of Ian Curtis.

First UK releases for currently hot band

Romantic tunes played a big part in British reggae charts in the late '70s and early '80s as a new generation of aspirational, British-born black kids abandoned roots reggae in favour of our first indigenous black pop style—lover's rock. Many of the tunes were nothing more than insipid cover versions of UK pop or US soul hits, but the movement yielded a clutch of genuinely moving songs such as Sharon Forrester's "Silly, Wasn't It?" (incidentally, Melody Maker's reggae single of 1974) and Janet Kay's 1979 Top 3 hit "Silly Games", both featured here. More recent

Twelve-year chronicle of demos and live cuts from '90s keepers of pop flame