Hendrix Jimi

Ang Lee's deceptively subversive look at the great festival of '69

His legendary performance, delivered in full on audio, and in part on DVD

A 6CD box, with 36 unheard tracks, to mark 40th anniversary

The original 1970 film, plus two hours of splendid new footage

Texan trio expand on their garage rock template, thrillingly

The tragic life of pioneer Joe Meek: part comedy, part nightmare

After the Party: the first albums, remastered

A wonderfully odd minor masterpiece

Wyatt is next in the hot seat, email us your questions here

As the year comes to an end, I’m putting the finishing touches to a Wild Mercury Sound Top 75 of 2008, which I’ll post here sometime next week. In the meantime, you can muck about with the Uncut hivemind’s 50 favourites by visiting our Rate The Albums feature: let’s make an effort to hype the Endless Boogie album up the charts, people (even though they had to cancel last week’s London show due to some kind of visa problem).