Empress Of (aka Lorely Rodriguez)‘s music is empowering in every sense of the word; sure, it’s easy to get swept away by the chilling vocals or mercurial house beats that trace throughout the crystalline surface of her debut album Me, but less obvious are the righteous messages and deeply personal stories she shares with each song.

A very auspicious start from two comics stalwarts: Gilbert Hernandez (of Love & Rockets fame) on writing and Darwyn Cooke (the Parker adaptations, New Frontier) on art.

Only after zombies became bankable TV regulars could anyone have imagined the self-described “Ultimate Experience in Grueling Horror” becoming a TV series. And as the character Ash lived on after surviving 1981’s The Evil Dead to flourish in its two sequels, the chainsaw-armed ass-kicker of the dead was too much fun not to make a comeback.

The Inhabitants’ greatest and most wholly unique attribute is its ambiguity.

Evil Dead fans should feel comfortable unloading and old copies of this movie and downsizing to this conclusive version of Army of Darkness.

Two years after the release of their debut album, Dromes, the British quartet Younghusband returns with a new collection produced by Loop’s Robert Hampson. As with Dromes, there seems to be no pressure toward a strictly defined sound, with any caprice potentially unveiling their next direction.

Flowers are at the center of everything in Spain’s submission for the 2016 Academy Awards.

This ain’t your Granddaddy’s dystopia. The overt dread and gloominess of the apocalypse have become all too frequent, but the hallmarks of the popular sci-fi genre are all but absent on Welsh songstress Gwenno‘s debut LP Y Dydd Olaf.

The Armor of Light has enough nuances to warrant a full fledged mini-series, let alone a documentary.