In 1986, R.E.M. were riding high. Coming off three successive albums that made them a progressively bigger and bigger draw on the college circuit, they were looking to expand their sound and their audience.

Ellen Page is Taullulah, a nomadic, family-less young woman whose recent breakup with her boyfriend compels her to his hometown of New York City in hopes of finding him.

As band-formation stories go, nonkeen have one of the most quaint. While many bands formed in their school days, few can say they have been an item since elementary school.

Sun Choke is plagued by the vague and cryptic.

Marjorie Liu (writer) and Sana Takeda (artist) present us with a master class in proper world-building. It’s an immense, matriarchal fantasy world full of details, but these details are delivered on a digestible, need-to-know basis, in the context of a compelling narrative, rather than a sledgehammer of info dump after info dump.

Dane Huckelbridge previously has penned a history of bourbon, and for his latest work he takes on the American staple, beer.

As Wild Beasts get older, they get wiser—continuing to move inexorably towards a carnal lust that proves more dark and twisted than the teenage fumbles of their earlier incarnations. While 2014’s Present Tense prowled around the fringes of such lust, taking stock of its emotional fragility, Boy King tears its way to the center in a smouldering, multi-flavoured gumbo of layered electronica.

It’s a bit strange it took so long for the Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s beloved book Le Petit Prince to get its cinematic due.

To say that fans were surprised when the original lineup of Dinosaur Jr. reunited in 2005 to support Merge’s reissues of their classic work would be a massive understatement given the past resentments between guitarist J Mascis and bassist Lou Barlow that led to their initial breakup after their third album, 1988’s Bug.