My M.O.'s album,  Bonfire, brings together the sounds of their respective countries and ignore any sense of genre boundaries.

The album is content with being pure down-and-dirty southern rock; no pussyfooting here. On “Young Love,” the guitar cackles and the bass thumps as lead singer Jay Buchanan’s deep, thundering vocals take charge and sing of just loving someone so much.

Despite his sepia album cover, zoot suit and slick hair, he lives in a time when Katy Perry is striving for her fifth number-one single in a year.

Washed Out sets out to reveal the sensuality of relationships through the use of synths layered over traditional instruments.

Eleanor Friedberger's debut solo album, Last Summer evokes hazy memories of ’60s AM pop radio and the radical rock of the same time. In its ruminative, rambling glory, Last Summer becomes her means to reflect on that summer. 

Graham Wright, a quarter of Tokyo Police Club reveals his outsized musical ambitions and surreal lyrics in first full-lenght solo album, Shirts vs. Skins.

Bon Iver's long awaited follow up to For Emma, Forever Ago shines.

The Junior Boys continue to produce albums that sound like well-worn disco-soul record with their latest album, It's All True.

Despite its combative name, their fourth album, Suck it and See, fits the mold, bridging the gap between their morose third album Humbug and hyper first two albums.

With his wry, observational humor, kitschy, childlike drawings and deadpan delivery, Demetri Martin has become one of most famous comedians for a generation heavy on apathy and irony. Known as a contributor for “The Daily Show” and for his own show “Important Things with Demetri Martin,” Martin has released his first book, aptly titled, “This is a Book.”

Saturday morning, after the party has ended, the drinks have been emptied and the hangovers have begun, Brian Hill and a couple of his friends arrive at the house of a local band and immediately hand them a bag of Torchy’s breakfast tacos.

Call it sentimentality, but there’s something to be said for a well-crafted love song, and TV on the Radio has 10 of them on their latest album, Nine Types of Light.

Avril Lavigne is rocking out like it’s 1999 on Goodbye Lullaby, her first album in four years.

The immigrant experience has become familiar ground for novels in the last decade with Junot Diaz’s “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” and Jhumpa Lahiri’s short stories becoming best sellers and widening the scope of American fiction so much so that it has become almost commonplace to read. Even though Dinaw Mengestu’s latest novel “How to Read the Air” tells another story about cultural divide and immigration, it excites readers with its clarity and confidence in delineating the separation of being American yet still so foreign to your country.

Don’t expect the adage “Those who can’t do, teach” to apply to the Visual Arts Center’s current exhibition, “Combined: Department of Art and Art History Faculty Exhibition.”

And scene. The students stop and relax their shoulders, though something feels a little bit off about the performance.