David Kohan and Max Mutchnick, the creators of Will & Grace, create a show about their lifelong friendship in Partners. In the process, the two hit replay on their former hit show. David Krumholtz (Numbers) plays Dave, the straight friend, and Michael Urie (Ugly Betty) plays Louis, the gay friend, partners in an architecture firm. Sophia Bush (One Tree Hill) plays Dave’s girlfriend, Ali, and Brandon Routh (Superman Returns) plays Louis’ life partner, Wyatt.

The debut album from Melody’s Echo Chamber has sunny, melodic rock and pop at its core, with a dizzying array of orbiting elements that serve equally to enhance the basic theme and to throw your equilibrium into wicked disarray.

Two left-thinking pairs of musicians don’t always make a right. Let’s take the case of Yoko Ono and Sonic Youth mainstays Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore, who surprised all by announcing a collaborative album.

Being at a Dan Deacon concert is like being at a kid’s birthday party made for adults. Only instead of a clown making balloon animals, the crowd is treated to a bearded man with oversized glasses screaming voice modulated squeals into a microphone while shaking his hand in front of him like he’s flicking water into someone’s face.

There is no such thing as a routine call for L.A. police officers Taylor (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Zavala (Michael Peña); each one lands them in a dangerous situation, until finally they cross the line with members of a ruthless drug cartel.

Since re-forming seven years ago, Dinosaur Jr.—J Mascis, Lou Barlow, and Murph—has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that it is still as powerful and dynamic a power trio as it ever was in its original form in the late ‘80s. I Bet On Sky is the third album the band has released since its reunion, and it concludes the perfect trifecta.

“The only bad part about flying is having to come back down to the fuckin’ world,” says the kid on the sample opening “Say My Name or Say Whatever,” the third track on Total Loss. It’s followed by a splash—the coming down, presumably, in the form of a water landing.

“What’s up y’all/I thought we had a plan/To move things forward for women around the globe/Instead of going forward, where the hell we going now?” is something of the listener’s gauntlet for Corin Tucker Band’s second album. It’s from the opening track “Groundhog Day,” and it’s a call to arms unheard from Tucker since Sleater-Kinney’s sublime The Woods.

With Bend Beyond, Woods continue to try and convince us they’re not in California. Brooklyn, they say. This seventh full-length is their dark album, their publicist says.