Chances are, if you ever held a candle in deference to goth forefathers Bauhaus, you’ve probably built a decent shrine out of singles and B-sides. There’s certainly been no lack of unearthed skeletons in the three decades since the doomed quartet’s short-fused lifespan, from B-sides tacked onto re-mastered CDs to box sets that could fill coffins.

The “breakup album” is often considered a uniquely individual expression of grief or triumph. Generally, the details of an individual’s romantic life have enough broad associations to the particulars of another’s and we, as listeners, are able to empathize with the album in an inductive way, tracing out trends from the intimately documented debris of a former romance.

If Matthew Dear wasn’t involved in numerous projects—co-founder of Ghostly International, Audion, Jabberjaw, False, and production duties all over the planet—fans might have made a fuss about the six years between Bunny and last album Beams.

The 17th Austin City Limits Music Festival has come and gone and, speaking from firsthand experience, it was a great success. With eight stages, 130 bands, and daily capacity crowds of 75,000 music fans, the festival organizers had to overcome lofty logistical goals, last second headliner switches, and super-hot weather to pull this one off.

Indie-rock cognoscenti: did you know there is a Dave Matthews album by the name Lillywhite Sessions? Some quick history for the uninitiated:

Speed Kills is another dud for Travolta.

The Good Place is losing its footing somewhat, but at least it’s having fun doing it. In “Don’t Let the Good Life Pass You By,” Michael and Janet travel to rural Canada to visit the man, the myth, the legend himself: Doug Forcett.

It’s better to be late than never, and if that saying could be applied to anyone in music right now there’s no one more appropriate that Baxter Dury. As the son of legendary punk and New Wave artist Ian Dury it’s probably fair to say music’s been in his blood since the day he was born.

Duncan Skiles’ The Clovehitch Killer is exactly the type of movie the title would suggest ... one that wants to unsettle you with its mood and atmosphere.