The marriage of noise and pop is as old as garage rock itself, but few recent bands have wed sonic assaults and bracingly gorgeous melodicism as convincingly as Joanna Gruesome.

Four similar murders across four very different time periods in London reveal a complex mystery in Si Spencer’s eight-issue miniseries, Bodies, now collected and released as a single trade paperback.

Here’s a quick little EP from the ever-industrious Sharon Van Etten, hot on the heels of last year’s Are We There, which was deservedly heaped in acclaim.

Malcolm is a good kid. A bit of a geek, sure—he plays in a band, obsesses over ‘90s hip-hop culture, and listens to indie rock—but he stays out of trouble and gets good grades, which can’t be said of many youths from the Bottoms of Inglewood,

Coming up during the era where a guy making beats with a girl vocalizing was most commonplace, even then Róisín Murphy couldn’t create music that correctly fell in step with her peers.

Negotiations was painful, a record from the heart and for the heart. The Helio Sequence’s last release was borne from a difficult season of necessary introspection for Brandon Summers. Despite the album’s acclaim, it’s not surprising he wasn’t keen on repeating the creative process.

Michael Stewart Foley’s Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables is a must read not only for punks young and old, but for anyone who has ever felt even the slightest revolutionary pang in their soul.

Sometimes living legends re-emerge quietly; Giorgio Moroder‘s second coming arrived complete with a theme song on a record that hit #1 in more than 20 countries.

For the third year in a row, Netflix’s original series Orange Is the New Black debuts on the streaming service in the middle of summer, establishing itself as the go-to distraction from warms days and beach parties.