Album

Two-CD set of mainly live jazz-folk genius from early '70s to mid-'90s, plus DVD interview from last year

Reissued cod-metal from godfathers of The Darkness

Post-rock visionaries in their prime

Jim jarmusch's imminent set of dryly comic vignettes, filmed over the course of a decade, will pitch him to a new generation, as it features Jack and Meg White, Wu-Tang Clan (RZA scored Jarmusch's last film, Ghost Dog) and Steve Coogan among its cast. One of the better sequences sees Tom Waits and Iggy Pop mock-bickering over who's more famous, and both contribute to this studiously cool soundtrack.

UK pedal-steel veteran gorges on electro-exotica

As leader of Denton, Texas' Centro-Matic and its slacker country cousin, South San Gabriel, Johnson has been a prolific purveyor of all things bleak and oddly beautiful. Like 2002's solo debut Murder Of Tides, Vultures Await is a narcoleptic song suite of plucked guitar, sombre piano and drums like stuttering heartbeats. Cloaked in strings and cracked vocals, it's hardly laugh-a-minute, but absorbing nonetheless.

Listless reunion for avant-garde eggheads

The reunited Crush core blow up your speakers

Classic '67 pop-soul debut from Blue Mink chanteuse and friend of Dusty

Lost album from Eric Clapton's erstwhile mentor and sometime partner of Bonnie