Mission to Lars is an endearing documentary detailing Tom Spicer’s journey to meet Metallica drummer, Lars Ulrich.

As good as CHVRCHES’ debut album The Bones of What You Believe was (and it was very good indeed), the whole record did often seem to be running to catch up with arguably the finest opening track on a debut album this decade in “The Mother We Share.”

On Saturday night in a local North Philly sports bar, all hell broke loose. The hell in question was Michigan hillbilly hardcore five-piece The Goddamn Gallows.

If you haven’t yet read Eric Stephenson and Simon Gane’s They’re Not Like Us, put down whatever superhero title you’re reading and pick that up instead. Trust me. In a marketplace overflowing with meta-human books, there’s not a single one quite like They’re Not Like Us-a title one can’t help but wonder might have been an intentional (or not) jab at the rest of the industry on Stephenson’s and Gane’s part.

In 1995, a pregnant pledge gave birth and died at a Kappa Kappa Tau party at Wallace University. Now, 20 years later, someone (or ones) is stalking the sorority, killing off its current and aspiring sisters one at a time in darn bloody fashion.

Much was made of Youth Lagoon‘s sheltered psychedelia almost immediately. Fat Possum’s quick trigger finger led to the release of Trevor Powers’ official debut, The Year of Hibernation, and the album landed on most Best Albums lists by year’s end.

In September of 2007, North Carolina entrepreneur Shannon Whisnant bought a used smoker grill at an auction; inside he found a partially-mummified human leg.

For Alice in Chains: The Untold Story, journalist David de Sola attempts to craft the definitive biography of one of grunge’s biggest and best bands.

A beat cop patrolling Times Square discovers a giant duffle bag left abandoned in the middle of New York City’s greatest tourist destination with a cryptic, unsettling note pinned to its side—“Call the FBI.” The bomb squad quickly responds, but no one expects what happens next.