You could call it a comeback—after a 12-year hiatus, Brooklyn-based pop auteurs The Essex Green have jumped back on the scene. But hop into Hardly Electronic, and you’ll doubt they ever left; the trio’s new album hums with unblemished cuts of ‘60s and ‘70s radio gold, just as you’d expect from former consorts of Athens’ Elephant 6 collective.

A Wrinkle in Time is considered one of the seminal American science-fiction novels, written by Madeleine L’Engle in 1962, and serving as the first installment of her Newbery Medal-winning Time Quintet series.

A haunting and deeply affecting examination of the German singer’s final years.

Writer-director Steven Soderbergh took the Cannes Film Festival by storm with his low-budget 1989 debut, sex, lies, and videotape.

Sloss Music & Arts Festival occupies a unique spot in Birmingham’s musical and cultural history. For two decades (1989-2009), the town’s major music festival was City Stages, which brought such diverse acts as Bob Dylan, The Killers, Ludcaris, Ryan Adams, and Jethro Tull to the Magic City every Father’s Day weekend.

It’s not surprising that the music on ShadowParty‘s self-titled debut album contains traces of the familiar punk-pop beats of New Order and Devo given the protagonists here are past and/or current members of these bands.

Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti captures many passions and pitfalls of its titular painter with an earnest sensitivity; though it also handles this moment in art history like that of a faded memory.

The pairing of Underworld with Iggy Pop, two masterful frontmen plus inventive and limitless musical accompaniment equals exponential charisma overload. Teatime Dub Encounters is this collaboration’s four-song EP, whose titles implies it would be a low-key affair.

“Festival season,” for lack of a better term, can be mildly frustrating. The days feel endless, the festivals themselves can often turn into muddy, drunken shitshows, and the artists playing are typically exhausted, punching in for an hour set while in the midst of frenetic summer touring schedules.