After their 2010 debut Astro Coast became a much deserved breakout indie hit, Surfer Blood hit some unexpected and tragic stumbling blocks. Their 2013 major label debut and sophomore LP Pythons was widely viewed as a disappointment and 2015’s 1000 Palmsdidn’t do much to dissuade naysayers and retrieve their lost momentum.

In the late ‘80s, gang violence menaced the streets of Los Angeles.

With Graveyard Whistling, Old 97’s frontman Rhett Miller is his most comfortable self, mic-slinging in the stirrups of a rowdy, fleshed-out sound.

Tim Kingsbury has done pretty well for himself as the bassist (amongst other things) for reigning champions of indie rock, Arcade Fire. With a new Arcade Fire record due, you’d expect time to be at a premium.

Kino Lorber Studio Classics re-releases the ‘80s cult teen comedy, Teen Witch, starring Robyn Lively.

From Thomas Bulfinch to Edith Hamilton to the d’Aulaires, there have been many successful endeavors over the last century or so to bring ancient Greek mythology out from the stuffy realm of academia and into the layperson’s hands.

Following last year’s sophomore LP Welcome the Worms, this brand new Bleached EP continues in a similarly slick but not too slick power-pop/pop-punk vein, although it’s unclear whether these are outtakes from those sessions (they sound like it) or brand new recordings.

Resignation isn’t hinted at in the words sung here by WHY?‘s Yoni Wolf—one of indie’s most under-celebrated lyricists—but woven extensively throughout.

The cover of Impermanence is a blurry self-portrait of The Antlers’ frontman Peter Silberman. Silberman lost hearing in his left ear a few months prior to the release of The Antlers’ last album, 2014’s Familiars.