This compendium of Keith Knight’s one-page strip The K Chronicles largely concerns cartoons involving his son, and to a lesser extent the election of the United States’ first black president, Barack Obama.

A Spencer Krug piano album-it had to happen sometime. In truth, the indie rock canon Krug’s been mining over the past decade always seemed ill-fitting for his spectral croon. His is a voice that demands unfettered attention; one that craves a simple canvas from which to exhale mystical, metaphorical tropes. And somehow you knew the canvas was always going to be the piano.

Ten years out of the game is a long time for anyone. But for The Dismemberment Plan it may seem even longer. In the decade since the Washington-born ensemble called it a day, the hyperventilating art-punk genre they once excelled in has been pounded, pummelled, and packaged into something that sells records and everything else—from potato chips to high-end motors.

Not too many groups effectively infuse heavy music with high/low art collisions, pan-ethnic anthropological celebrations, operatic inclinations, and theatricality bordering on cartoonishness, but Yamantaka // Sonic Titan do it almost effortlessly, placing the whole mess in a sort of sonic dreamscape.

The perennial sell-out of the Los Angeles Halloween scene strikes again. No kids allowed.

Although they’ve lost some ground to zombies in recent years, vampires still hold a special place as pop culture’s supernatural creatures-of-choice. With there being no shortage of Nosferatu-relevant entertainment, NBC at least went back to Bloodsucker Numero Uno for their primetime re-imagining of Dracula.

Nature abhors a vacuum and the three-year gulf that stretches back from the drop of Night Time, My Time to the first intended release date for a Sky Ferreira LP has been unreasonably filled with a narrative of expectation, disappointment, resignation, and cynicism.

A lawyer referred to only as The Counselor (Michael Fassbender) plunges head-first into the dangerous world of drug trafficking.

For an album called Interiors, Mesirow devotes a lot of time to exploring the ways people connect with one another and contemplating what lies beyond her own world—