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Postcard from Tajikistan

Second from Nick Cave drummer's side project

The poet laureate of hooliganism returns

Californian country-folk belle lets the sunshine through on excellent fourth album

Scorsese's awe-inspiring paean to a city born through conflict

Performance-driven crime drama hits the mark

Authentic, gloomy account of Chinese youth culture

A 10-disc box set focusing on the modern master of dumb-but-fun action flicks

A Jerry Lee Lewis biopic from Jim (The Big Easy) McBride, starring an energetic Dennis Quaid as the piano-bashing, God-fearing rock'n'roller. He upsets the applecart (and middle America) by marrying the underage Myra (Winona Ryder), whose book provided the source material. Thus biased, it doesn't show the great balls it should, but Quaid amps it up.

How New York's hippie hoppers ushered in the philosophical D.A.I.S.Y. Age. And then pronounced themselves Dead