Marvel’s The Avengers have dominated cineplexes and the box office for a number of years now, but my friends, the Justice League is closing in. The powerhouse DC Comics superhero team took one step closer to the big screen this week in DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, a new series. And it was awesome.

Chris Bell (Bigger, Stronger, Faster) sheds tremendous light on America’s dependence on prescription medication.

For their eleventh studio album (including the re-recordings for 2013’s retrospective Across Six Leap Years), Tindersticks further redraw a sound that has previously touched on chamber pop, soul, lounge jazz, and other areas.

What’s left for John Cale? The guy has spent decades making extraordinary avant-garde, classically-inspired rock records in New York and helped to reinvent rock music as part of The Velvet Underground. He is now 73 years old and few would begrudge the curmudgeonly genius his retirement.

Post-rock quintet Tortoise hasn’t released a new album in six years. It’s the longest break the band has taken between albums, but on first listen of The Catastrophist, one could be forgiven for thinking it had only been a year or two.

After 22 years with ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, Conrad Keely releases his debut solo album, if we can call it that. You could view these 24 tracks as value for money but Original Machines is an overwhelming and inconsistent listen; less a professionally-minded album, per se, than a sheer outpouring of the entire Keely vault.

“No man is good three times” reads the sticker that adorns the cover of Ty Segall’s latest full-length solo record, Emotional Mugger. It’s the mantra that was at the heart of the reaction to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s controversial victory in the 1944 U.S. Presidential election.

Not long after news of David Bowie‘s death shocked the world last week, Arcade Fire and The Preservation Hall Jazz Band announced a second line parade through New Orleans’ French Quarter to honor the late musician. (Traditionally, a New Orleans funeral involves two lines-the first, a somber march to the cemetery; the second parade is an animated, musical celebration of the deceased’s life.)

There is an outstanding scene at the center of A Perfect Day, a new film about foreign aid workers stationed in the Balkans.