A tragedy set in a breathtaking Israeli landscape, Wedding Doll follows a young woman with mild mental difficulties desperately searching for a man to love and, most importantly, marry.

Deftones have milked the tension between vocalist Chino Moreno’s tendency towards poppy fey melody and guitarist Stephen Carpenter’s tendency towards the heaviest metal imaginable for a long, successful career.

In Lost Rockers, Steven Blush, with Paul Rachman and Tony Mann, chronicles the stories of 19 musicians who never truly hit the bigtime. In each case, the artist nearly struck big, was associated with famous names, played with big stars, or performed/wrote songs that are recognizable hits for other artists.

Les Blank cared deeply about capturing mood and feel in his work, and he does a masterful job of it here, on this magnificent documentary loosly chronicling musician Leon Russell.

I used to imagine Kevin Morby‘s arrival in New York from Texas sort of like Jon Voight’s at the beginning of Midnight Cowboy. Big ideas, big plans, big boots. If you’ve seen the movie, you know that maybe this isn’t the most flattering comparison.

Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous. If you like dreamy synthpop, this is the album you’ve been waiting for. Even Postiljonen‘s breakup songs give sensual shrugs of commanding confidence. And whatever way the romance is going, most of these tunes are pulling you straight for the dance floor and won’t take “no” for an answer.

The man behind the live-wire sexiness of St. Vincent’s sound, and a host of others, belts out his solo debut, Until the Horror Goes. Both vocally and conceptually, John Congleton hurls forth a paranoid alter ego from the subconscious that sounds like the nerdier cousin of Rivers Cuomo after getting his hands on some bad designer drug.

Hardcore punk band The Ain’t Rights will do anything for a gig, even play a show at a neo-Nazi compound in rural Oregon. After witnessing an act of gruesome violence, the band find themselves trapped in a vicious struggle to survive.

Batman and The Joker take a Euro-trip in Batman Europa, the four-part miniseries collected in hardcover from DC Comics. While fighting crime one night, The Caped Crusader feels his reflexes and strength fading.