Up to this point, just about every new release from The Fresh & Onlys has offered us the singularly bittersweet pleasure of greeting new, unexpected sonic gestures while melancholically waving goodbye to certain tics we’ve grown fond of. It was a peculiarly rewarding give-and-take, with each successive album and EP betraying glimmers of The Onlys’ prior recorded lives, yet bravely looking onward.

[Spoiler Alert: If you haven’t seen the latest episode of Game of Thrones, “The Watchers on the Wall,” then read no further.]

The Game of Thrones producers sure pulled a risky stunt by extending last week’s cliffhanger over one more week, but minutes into “The Watchers on the Wall” and Tyrion’s fate is the last thing on anyone’s mind.

Drug-related killings in Mexico are daily news in the Americas, and Heli is a unique, at times difficult, look at how the violence affects every-day people.

The Good Inn, the collaborative work of Pixies frontman Black Francis and writer Josh Frank, is the part-fact, part-fiction tale of Soldier Boy and how he finds himself the star of the first narrative pornographic film.

For the last couple of years, Oxford-via-London quartet Glass Animals has wooed listeners with a steady stream of singles and remixes. “Psylla” and “Black Mambo” exhibited a sound somewhere between the dark, enveloping trip-hop of Massive Attack and weirdo groove-makers Alt-J.

A significant amount of ink has been spilt (and digital real estate allocated) to breaking down Jungle’s retro influences. It isn’t without merit.

Alex van Warmerdam has crafted a deliciously enthralling mystery that plays out like a thriller but could be easily classified as a bristling adult fable.

It’s a fun game to ask someone unfamiliar with First Aid Kit where the band hails from. Tennessee is a common guess, as is Georgia, and the fact that the Söderberg sisters are from Sweden always raises eyebrows.

Howard Holloway (Clark Gregg) is a struggling, low-level Hollywood agent representing child actors.