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The Hot Spot

Dennis Hopper-directed noir-by-numbers from 1990. Don Johnson's ambiguous stranger drifts into a sultry small town to run a con, and gets caught between lust for married Virginia Madsen and troubled teen Jennifer Connelly. Routine; but cherish this movie for the once-in-a-lifetime soundtrack Hopper persuaded Miles Davis, John Lee Hooker and Taj Mahal to jam.

Woven Hand – Blush Music

16 Horsepower frontman's score for a Belgian dance company

Turbonegro – Scandinavian Leather

Smart-bomb metal and high jinx from Sweden's latest kick-ass export

Maximilian Hecker – Rose

German romanticism reborn on former busker's second album

Tindersticks – Waiting For The Moon

The image of a band waltzing on the spot seems to accompany every Tindersticks album. Perhaps it's the curse of a band fortunate to work out a distinctive and effective sound at their inception. Whatever, Waiting For The Moon is the usual impeccably crafted artefact, though it's questionable whether anyone who owns their first two albums needs it in their lives. The aspirations to soul that marked out 2001's Can Our Love...

Chicago

Featherweight US rockers at their commercial peak

JJ Cale – In Session

Belated release of 1979 live session

Atrocity Exhibitions

Vital live dispatches from the last five months in the life of Ian Curtis

Dark Water

Classic ghost story from Ring writer and director

Fulltime Killer

Stylish slice of sub-John Woo heroic bloodshed
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