On The Dream Synopsis EP, The Last Shadow Puppets deliver a quartet of diverse cover tunes that sidestep their stylistic orchestral rock, framed by a couple of reworked tracks from their 2016-released second album, Everything You’ve Come to Expect.

A marathon in paternal terror.

The Monkees, Head, and the 60s examines the Monkees phenomenon and especially the movie Head with a critical, scholarly eye.

I terms of independent music, the cast for Say Yes! is pretty much as close as it gets to all-star: J. Mascis, Waxahatchee, Amanda Palmer, Yuck, and Julien Baker are among those enlisted to tribute one of the most talented songwriters to ever occupy these circles. Sadly, large parts ofSay Yes! feel uninspired and lazy.

Although it frequently traffics in cliché, The Autopsy of Jane Doe is an effective horror film.

Writer and artist Box Brown’s treatise on Tetris is a real treat. According to Tetris: The Games People Play, Alexey Pajitnov, Tetris’ creator, “believed that games were the perfect confluence of humanity and technology. Games model the human experience. Not just physically, but mentally and emotionally.”

Coming straight off of last year’s sparse, harrowing, raw Brace the Wave, the new Apocalypse Fetish EP feels like an extension of the mood, vibe, and sound of that excellent, heartfelt, deeply personal LP.

Polyvinyl Plays Polyvinyl celebrates 20 years of label existence by having a number of its artists run free with covers of their labelmates’ songs. The result is a stylistic cornucopia made doubly pleasing by the obvious joy and care involved in musicians taking liberties with their peers’ creations.

Set in the cold winter of an early ‘60s New York, the swanky homes and well-cut fashion on display make A Kind of Murder into something of Mad Men-era murder mystery.