In/Out/In (Three Lobed Recordings). Review by Scott Adams.

This week’s compendium of five carefully selected albums are all connected by a change encounter with Julius C. Lacking … maybe it was the tags, or perhaps the artwork, but the results are clear.

New Long Leg (4AD). Review by Julius C. Lacking.

Sound Salvation takes on current events with a playlist addressing the current fight for racial and social justice in America and the battles playing out in the streets in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd.

If the LAPD is hassling your punk rock show, move it out into the desert and bus the punks out to party in peace.

Frozen Flowers Curse the Day (Trace Elements Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.

Prospect of the Deep, Volume One (Indivisible Music). Review by Bob Pomeroy.

No Sense EP (Fire Talk Records). Review by Jen Cray.

Adventure (Good Charamel Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.

Anti-Hero (I’m Single Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Bully greets Orlando with apathy and anger toward one of its theme parks. Jen Cray smiles and thinks, “Man, this band would have fit in well in the nineties!”

Cemetery Highrise Slum (Collect Records). Review by Jen Cray.

An expansive and exhaustive behind-the-scenes account of Nirvana’s meteoric rise to fame, and the untimely death of its iconic frontman, Kurt Cobain.

Flutes, leather vests on bare skin, werewolf songs, and kids on stage. It’s not your average recipe for a rock show, but then, as Matthew Moyer points out, Faun Fables is not a rock band.

Good things come to May Terry, who waited through a half-dozen bands before Grass Widow closed out the Panache Northside Showcase in NYC.

Zola Jesus creates a surreal and magical concert experience, Jen Cray learned at the songstress’ first ever Orlando date.

Matthew Moyer declares this the best approximation of the Jesus Lizard live experience.

Charles D.J. Deppner talks with Curt Kirkwood about holding the strings of the Meat Puppets together with love, passion, fate, and sheer luck.

Demolished Thoughts (Matador). Review by Chet Barker.

Here Before (Bar None). Review by Jeff Schweers.