Though William Tyler’s fingerpicking has always suggested open vistas, ragged coasts, and endless plains, the streamlined Modern Country summons the undying hum and manmade ingenuity of freeways and canals.

Geek chic hasn’t arrived in the world of Careful What You Wish For. When we first meet Doug (Nick Jonas) proper, he’s being ridiculed for taking a pile of books on his summer lakeside vacation.

“If the sun comes up and I still don’t want to stagger home, then it’s the memory of our betters that are keeping us on our feet.” When James Murphy wrote “All My Friends” he might not have been thinking specifically about the Primavera Sound festival.

If any group can provide the soundtrack to a film about the nuclear age, it’s Mogwai. Along the way in their epic career they have periodically taken on the task of translating their spacious and magnificent rock orchestration into the auditory language of moving image.

Luis (Guzmán) and Eddie (Garcia) are New York City cops, experts at nailing fashion counterfeiters.

For a book concerning probably the most kinetic hero with the most action-oriented superpowers, The Flash: Rebirth sure is a talky, dialog-filled pamphlet. But we think that’s okay in this case—the DC Rebirth titles seem to be oriented to reintroducing a hero and helping to set up the status quo going forward in what is the latest continuity reboot-ish turn of events.

The Spoils Before Dying is a dead-on parody of vintage, L.A. noir.

What is punk pop? In theory, it is an impossible concept: its very name is, after all, an oxymoron. However you choose to define it, it is perhaps the best genre for Yung to very, very loosely hang their debut album on.

In a city far from the sea, you shouldn’t trust the seafood. It’s the first, and by no means the last, piece of advice dished out in Last Cab to Darwin, a low-key Australian drama that relies on astute observation to cover over tired foundations.