Robert Greenfield’s latest book on The Rolling Stones covers his time with the band during its 10-day European tour prior to leaving England for the south of France, as well as during time at Nellcôte and in Los Angeles and Jamaica while the band wrapped up work on Exile.

Back in November, The Killers announced it was going on hiatus. On Thursday in Bethlehem, PA, the band provided a welcome return.

Conor Oberst sounds as though he has been slowly stepping away from the musical quirks he used to capture the indie rock community’s attention way back when. Reserved in word count, less emphatic on delivery, and more polished in production, Upside Down Mountain almost feels un-ironic.

It’s always a pleasure to get a quintessential representation of any band four full-lengths in—something that deftly mixes the strengths of each plateau in their growing body of work, not resting on any laurels (real or imagined) but synergistically fusing it all into a (Molotov) cocktail of bad-assery.

ukimi Nagano’s voice is a force of nature, but not in the way you might think. As the frontwoman for Sweden’s Little Dragon, Nagano has a smoky, sultry R&B voice that is instantly recognizable. She’s backed by a band that knows how to meld and shape minimalist electronica into the pop landscape, throwing in a good measure of classic soul.

There is nothing to inherently dislike in A Short History of Decay, but neither is there anything to love.

As part of the ongoing 25th Anniversary reissue series from Merge, The Clientele have reissued their 2000 quasi-debut album, Suburban Light. The original was a collection of singles from 1997-2000, a hodgepodge that nonetheless had a surprising cohesion.

Cult noise-pop act Vivian Girls might have broken up this past January, but fans of the expired Brooklyn band have plenty of spin-offs to sink their teeth into.

Black Moth Super Rainbow frontman Thomas Fec, or TOBACCO, releases his third solo album Ultima II Massage, named after a massage parlor in Fec’s home state of Pennsylvania—though as an album it’s less a relaxing backrub and more a microdermabrasion treatment for your eardrums.