Reformed punk icons' first since 1999's Modern

If Gillian Welch floats your boat, chances are Laura Veirs will, too, though her take on homespun Appalachia is tempered by modernist tendencies. Anyone familiar with 1999's eponymous guitar-and-voice-only debut will be taken aback here, ditching much of its thorny agit-folk for dreamily intoxicating balladry, sawing strings and near-perfect vocal phrasing.

Another foray into the troubled mind of Bill Callahan

Sixteen-track anthology of darkcore Boston trio, including previously unreleased tracks

Magickal creation theory in latest music-backed spoken words from comics king

Afghans' odyssey puts the asylum-seeker problem into human context

Raw, rigorous yet transcendent social realism

Debut solo album from erstwhile Cypress Hill producer

Second album from former Ren And Stimpy writer and animator

Sixteen years after The Smiths, Johnny Guitar goes solo