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Rapper-turned-actress hams her way through third album

Their extraordinary evolution as heard through John Peel's Top Gear

What it means to be in a rock band, or have a career, seems to have melted and fused into something older and freer for Jon Langford. The Welsh leader of original Leeds punks The Mekons lives in Chicago these days, and plays with The Waco Brothers, The Sadies and The Pine Valley Cosmonauts too.

Two-CD, 33-track comp of pioneering street funk with emphasis on early years

Lo-fi avant-pop from Canadian duo

Better-than-expected debut from All Saints sisters

Coldplay join Echo & The Bunnymen singer on first solo outing since 1992

Lee's lofty adaptation of gritty 24-hour crime novel takes on the shadows of 9/11

Adaptation of Spike Milligan's cult 1963 novel

Long-overdue two-disc, 37-track compilation of Glasgow's missing link between David Bowie and Nick Cave