If only the easy listening genre wasn’t already dedicated to orchestras and big bands and voices made famous decades ago. If only it was accepting new albums into its category. Because Atlaswould absolutely define it.

Stalingrad is far from a perfect war film, but it does add up to an overall gratifying visual experience.

Bombay Bicycle Club have called their new album So Long, See You Tomorrow, but it could just as easily have been named Bombay Bicycle Club: Fun With Synthesizers. Never a band to shy away from experimentation, for their fourth full-length release the North London band have injected their glittering guitar pop with textural synths and dance sounds.

Portlandia enters its fourth season tonight. Four seasons! Whodathunkit?! From the waning strains of viral hit “Dream of the ‘90s (Is Alive in Portland)” to the literally provincial title, it seemed fated to be one-note, despite its instant charms.

British art rockers Wild Beasts may hail from the wilds of Cumbria in the far north of England, but their music has always defied their craggy-landscaped origin and ferocious name: their 2009 breakthrough albumTwo Dancers and it’s 2011 follow-up Smother were sinuously sophisticated and low-key—barbed tales of sexual longing and self-loathing wrapped in sleek, atmospheric indie rock.

The hook for Mixology is “one bar, one night…10 people in search for love” is a little misleading. The bar is more of a bar/restaurant and the search is to get laid, not for love, although a couple of those 10 people might be getting the two things confused.

The career trajectory of German polymaths The Notwist has always been one of steady evolution and mutation. We’ve long waved auf wiedersehen to the early ‘90s punk stylings of The Notwist and Nook, and now it seems the sentimental bedroom electronica of Shrink and Neon Golden is headed the same way.

[Spoiler Alert: If you haven’t seen the latest episode of The Walking Dead, “Inmates,” then read no further.]

Season one of The Americans presented everyone’s favorite KGB agents (Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys playing Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, respectively), living in deep cover in the D.C. suburbs in 1980’s America.