Director David Gaynes’ understated documentary follows eight senior citizens as they make a pilgrimage from their assisted living facility in Connecticut to Jerusalem.

Small Black quickly follows its 2013 sophomore full-length, Limits of Desire, with the Real People EP. Guest artist Frankie Rose’s vocals blend into the tones of Small Black’s Josh Kolenik on the fizzing dance-pop title track, a strong starter to the EP.

“Mockingbird” sounds like the start of a bad joke that quickly turns into a Machiavellian morality tale.

Of the vista-scraping crowd gathered at the Farm Bureau Live amphitheater in Virginia Beach, it’s a safe bet that more than a few had seen Springsteen perform live, with or without The E Street Band, at least once.

I suspect there’s many an Anglophone listener for whom there’s always been something quintessentially “French” about Yann Tiersen. The Breton multi-instrumentalist’s brand of orchestral post-rock has haunted the peripheries of the alternative music zeitgeist since the days of Amélie, one of the most successful French cinematic exports of—well, perhaps ever—and a whiff of francité has long since trailed him.

When is a Bis album not really a Bis album? When it’s actually a Data Panik album. The Glasgow trio’s fourth LP since unleashing their maniacal indie-electro-pop on the world in the mid ‘90s, data Panik etcetera is a re-styling of material made during a lengthy career pitstop (during which they briefly went under the name Data Panik).

Robert Greenfield’s latest book on The Rolling Stones covers his time with the band during its 10-day European tour prior to leaving England for the south of France, as well as during time at Nellcôte and in Los Angeles and Jamaica while the band wrapped up work on Exile.

Back in November, The Killers announced it was going on hiatus. On Thursday in Bethlehem, PA, the band provided a welcome return.

Conor Oberst sounds as though he has been slowly stepping away from the musical quirks he used to capture the indie rock community’s attention way back when. Reserved in word count, less emphatic on delivery, and more polished in production, Upside Down Mountain almost feels un-ironic.