Circle one

First UK release from powerful and strange Michigan singer-songwriter

Grim post-Taliban tale from Afghanistan

Latest album from lowa-based erudite John Darnielle

Not the first (and probably not the last) tribute to the Man In Black

Urban angst, Iranian-style

Narrative 10-song cycle about a fictional clan is Young's best work in a while

Magical coming-of-age tale

Archly satirical tale of disenchanted teenage slacker

DA Pennebaker, that eminent celluloid chronicler of live rock (Don't Look Back, Down From The Mountain), filmed the farewell Ziggy show (July 3, 1973, Hammersmith Odeon), and now Tony Visconti's remixed the soundtrack for a 30th anniversary double CD special edition (the film's out on DVD, too). Bowie's between-song banter is included for the first time, most notably the big bold brouhaha of the bye-bye speech. And "The Width Of A Circle" is present in all its noisy, unedited, 16-minute glory.

The hip hop underground goes uptown