Kris Needs

The Man’s first solo efforts, plus bonus frivolity

Alan Moore-approved Northampton underground weirdness straddling 40 years

First new music in 38 years becomes epitaph for rock‘n’roll’s original guitar heror

Still bringing the noise, a US tour becomes a live album

Posthumous 1983 double album now on two CDs

Another NYC story where footnotes become stars

Confrontational noise pioneers’ ninth album as monolithic as ever

Late folk giant unplugged and kicking

The birth of black rock and its revolutionary tributaries get a superlative compilation, including a rare Hendrix track

Priceless document of Lemmy and co’s golden years

Old broadcasts from punk bandwagon humpers

Fifty years since A Whiter Shade, Procol return with defiant resurrection.

Cathartic soul-baring space prog masterwork.

Goth godfather unplugged

Prophet of doom

Goth godfather unplugged

North Wales space rockers early lift-off revived with pic disc, tee and sweets!

The tragic story of doomed Boston low-rockers

Tim Hinkley’s short-lived proto-proggers exhumed

Some kind of hero

Steven Wilson’s bandmate uncorks concept album.

For Butterfly collectors only

Kick out the jams, the next generation

Purple organist’s great classical work remastered, with notes from Roger Glover.