While Sweden’s been one of the decade’s most fertile musical grounds, its singer/songwriters have often gotten the short of end of the stick. Sure, José González gets some press, but how many other guitar-wielding Swedes can you name off the top of your head?

Initially created as downloadable content for Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST grew into what would become its own game.

Rac Shade of the alternate dimension known as Meta has come to Earth under false pretenses, but with a very real goal: to help rid our dimension of a “madness” that’s physically and psychically manifesting itself in horrible ways.

Cold Cave frontman Wesley Eisold exudes a downright clinical detachment in his analysis of relationships throughout his band’s debut LP Love Comes Close. It’s a compelling push/pull struggle of cerebral analysis versus arm’s length emotion, largely devoid of histrionics, yet masterfully articulated by Eisold with sheer poetic clarity that differentiates the act from a litany of ‘80s electro revivalists.

Sgt. Rock: The Lost Battalion collects the six-issue mini series of the same name. Both written and drawn by Bill Tucci, it’s a story about iconic DC war character, Sgt. Frank Rock of Pittsburgh, Pa., and his men in Easy Company. But it goes far beyond a typical war comic.

Music and meditation are often in overlap, and countless cultures don’t even differentiate between music and religious practice. And bands like Om work to achieve that gray area in more western forms like, say, a rock band. God is Good, the band’s new album, is just such an effort.

Tonight’s final two segments of The Prisoner will provide endpoints for each of the major storylines, give the history and function of the Rovers, as well as reveal the location and true nature of the Village.

It might be appropriate that I had a bit of a fever when I was reading Luna Park, the new hardcover graphic novel from Vertigo/DC written by Kevin Baker and illustrated by Danijel Zezelj.

At first glance The Strokes and Kiss wouldn’t seem to have much in common, but as The Strokes continue to not release Strokes albums and instead put out solo and side projects, they become less and less the sum of their parts—much like that time each KISS member released his own solo record.