Make Up the Breakdown (Sub Pop). Review by Ian Koss.

Music From the Motion Picture (Lion’s Gate). Review by Ian Koss.

Private Lines EP (Jagjaguwar). Review by Stein Haukland.

Pajama Avenue (Loose Thread). Review by Stein Haukland.

Strange Old Brew (Mercenary Musik / World War III). Review by Matthew Moyer.

Guestroom (Minty Fresh). Review by Sean Slone.

Daniel Mitchell discusses important world issues – such as Morrissey – with Erin McCarley from Delta Dart.

Superholic (Metal Blade). Review by Stein Haukland.

Interpol EP (Matador). Review by Sean Slone.

F (Morticia). Review by Daniel Mitchell.

Survival is For Cowards (Second Nature). Review by Daniel Mitchell.

Dreamland (Universal). Review by James Mann.

Daniel L. Mitchell explores Robert Smith’s “Axis of Evil” – and its life-changing effects – with an in-depth look at three seminal albums from The Cure.

you i lov/// (Extasy). Review by Vanessa Bormann.

Live In Liverpool (spinART). Review by Steve Stav.

The Power of Pop (Shut Eye). Review by James Mann.

Greatest Hits (Elektra/Fiction). Review by Daniel Mitchell.

All This Sounds Gas (Matador). Review by Terry Eagan.

Intensely personal and disturbingly familiar, Sparrow L. Patterson’s debut novel, Synthetic Bi Products follows a tough teen bisexual girl from the suburbs of Chicago through an early ’90s downward spiral of sex, drugs, and shoplifting. Julio Diaz can relate.

The Drive (Cargo). Review by Marcel Feldmar.