On track to become some of the best weather the festival has ever experienced, the sunny day featured performances from Mikal Cronin, Woods, Zbigniew Wodecki (featuring Mitch & Mitch), and The Smashing Pumpkins.

If the most recognized marketing tool surrounding your film is a New York Times cover lambasting your leading lady, chances are you’ve gotten off on the wrong foot. And yet, it seems there’s no better way the public could’ve been introduced to The Canyons, the ridiculed, scoffed at, film-festival-rejected, controversy-surrounded new film from Oscar winner Paul Schrader.

Moderat, aka Apparat’s Sascha Ring and Modeselektor’s Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary, apparently spent six months in an underground studio in their native Berlin recording this follow up to 2009’s eponymous first collaboration.

The seventh annual edition of the OFF Festival (held in Katowice, Poland) kicked off with an inspiring set by Patrick Wolf. The London, England-based troubadour was in town to promote last year’s retrospective album Sundark and Riverlight. But what he delivered was something closer to a party than performance.

The Spectacular Now‘s 18-year-old protagonist, Sutter Keely (Miles Teller,) feels refreshingly complex; the film follows part of his senior year of high school, which shakes his worldview way harder than your typical coming-of-age feature.

Anyone who has been in couples therapy probably knows the idea behind “the five love languages”—an idea that each person interprets love in different ways, and those can be broken down into fundamental languages.

One recent development few could have predicted is the critical fondness for ‘90s bubblegum pop and R&B. While most of the bloggers currently praising the virtues of TLC wouldn’t have been caught dead with a copy of CrazySexyCool, they have made apparent peace with the fact that churning out glossy singles isn’t as easy as it looks.

The Smashing Pumpkins’ 1996 box set release, The Aeroplane Flies High, represented the end of Pumpkins era mark one. After culminating their ‘90s dominance in 1995’s epic double album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, Billy Corgan and company released The Aeroplane Flies High, a box set of singles from Mellon Collie and assorted B-sides cut during the album sessions.

When Chris Laufman blasted onto the indie scene in 2011 it felt like a star was rising. The Pittsburgh producer/vocalist’s efforts under the Wise Blood moniker raced to a fusion of beats, bleeps and bombast, culminating in the remarkable These Wings EP. At that point, the future was Laufman’s for the taking. And then he vanished.