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Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth hold a party in their home studio

The Jayhawks – Rainy Day Music

Seventh album from immaculate country-rockers with guest appearances by Jakob Dylan, Bernie Leadon and Matthew Sweet

The Aislers Set – How I Learned To Write Backwards

Third from 'Frisco 'twee'-revivalists

Chris Whitley – Hotel Vast Horizon

Respected Texan troubadour's eighth album

Alex Harvey – Considering The Situation

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

Mick Ronson – Slaughter On 10th Avenue

Bowie guitarist's Bowie-esque '74 debut

Mott The Hoople – The Best Of Mott The Hoople

Handy primer on Ian Hunter's seminal '70s rockers

Cracking Combination

Wry indie tragicomedy sees idiot safebreakers on the rampage

Roman Holiday

You could argue a case for Funny Face or Breakfast At Tiffany's, but this William Wyler rom-com—now 50 years young—is perhaps Audrey Hepburn's shining moment. An incognito princess who leaps into love with journalist Gregory Peck (well, we can all dream), you'd have to be brutish not to catch its spark. And Rome's not bad-looking either.

C’était Un Rendezvous

This cult item came about in 1976 when Claude LeLouch fastened a camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and sent it on a high-octane, outlaw street race, burning up the boulevards of Paris. No roads were blocked off, no stunt drivers used. Everything you see is real. It's fucking astonishing. Available online at www.spiritlevelfilm.com
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