Here’s a quick recap: since 2012, Australian psych-punk gang King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard have released nine albums. One was a spoken-word Western concept album. One featured four long tracks of deliberately equal length.

Now this is a lovely thing. Jeff Tweedy revisits his past catalogue, recording acoustic renditions of songs from Wilco, Loose Fur, and Golden Smog. The record begins with a slightly faster paced “Via Chicago” from Wilco’s Summerteeth, the tempo suiting the song very well.

Stephen King fans might be wondering how The Mist went from a novella with a single location to a serialized drama/thriller.

Split between a tale of the ravages of war, a morality fable, and a ghost story, Kenji Mizoguchi’s Ugetsu is as good an example of economic storytelling as can be imagined.

Throughout In a Mood, Simon Okely (Slow Dancer) untangles a relationship—he mourns and celebrates it. What’s fascinating about this deconstruction, however, is that he does not separate his feelings in a way that makes one song distinctly happy and another sad.

Algiers’ self-titled debut revealed a politically conscious band not afraid to use music to deliver a message.

John Wayne was and is one of Hollywood’s great leading men, and his filmography contains dozens of movies many people consider to be classics. Douglas Hickox’s Brannigan isn’t one of them.

Like any self-respecting Boston resident, Ellen Kempner can’t resist namechecking Dunkin Donuts.

Over the years we’ve probed Ride again and again about the possibility of new music. Kudos to them for keeping coy through all of our haranguing (which, no doubt, they’ve received from everyone they’ve ever spoken to in the 20 years since their dissolution.)