Dear Dictator has a bad habit of taking its nutty idea and approaching it in the least interesting ways possible.

If Rise feels like Friday Night Lights meets Glee, that is because it has the former’s executive producer Jason Katims and Hamilton‘s producer Jeffrey Seller as its pedigree. Rise shares part of its premise with Friday Night Lights in that it takes place in a small town where high school football rules supreme.

The Raincoats’ eponymous debut is one of the unique albums ever to manifest itself on 12” vinyl. Jenn Pelly’s book is a fine addition to the 33 1/3 canon.

The individual members of the French duo Air make good use of their time in between albums. Jean-Benoît “JB” Dunckel, in particular, has spread his talents extensively including the collaborative albums Tomorrow’s World and Starwalker as well as scoring a few soundtracks. H+ is his second solo album under his own name, following his solo debut, Darkel, over a decade after the fact.

Some records don’t make sense until you hear them in a car, at a party, or over an action movie bank robbery. I’m Bad Now is a walking record, in the best way, timed to the rhythm of a stroll to get you out of the damn house.

At this time of high stakes and heightened bars within the vastly expanded and more competitive landscape of episodic television, the challenges for showrunners and writers to carve out an inviting realm where viewers are inclined to return must be daunting.

Editors have always demonstrated a passion for slick New Wave synth-rock, albeit a little dreamier and a little darker than the type that dominated the airwaves in the ‘80s. And Violence is no different. But contrary to what the gloomy song titles suggest, the band’s sixth record is actually a kinder and gentler Editors album, musically speaking.

It has been some 14 or so years since we last heard from David Byrne on a fully realized solo project. 2004’s Grown Backwards saw the now 65-year-old former Talking Heads frontman caught in between staying true to his immensely quirky and individualistic past and the pressures of adapting that to a new audience which, for the first time may have been blissfully unaware of his past.

Black Eagle featured a pairing of two of the 1980s’ most iconic martial arts stars.