Chic

Indie festival hit profiles puppy love

Six CDs of live Runt, previously only available as Japanese imports

On the intro tape, Johnny Cash's austerely remorseless "The Man Comes Around" sets the mood, then Colin MacIntyre's men come pounding out of the traps. For this mini tour, the school choir, feather boa and inflatable sheep of previous expeditions have been packed away, in favour of frill-free punk aggression.

Susan Sarandon and Goldie Hawn ham it up energetically in this surprisingly perceptive, punchy comedy about where groupies go when younger rock chicks muscle them out. Hawn wants to keep headbanging in leather, Sarandon's primly settled in beige, Geoffrey Rush is a celibate writer caught in Goldie's slipstream. No more syrupy than Almost Famous.

Last hurrah from cancer-stricken Uncut hero. Released in the US on August 26

Bizarre female electropop debut with several Kid 606 productions

Clever but irritating one-man band from Chicago

The poet laureate of hooliganism returns

Chicago-via-Kentucky multi-instrumentalist gets jiggy with the post-rock crowd

Performance-driven crime drama hits the mark