It’s the Long Goodbye (Rock Actions Records). Review by Peter Lindblad.

All Clouds Bring Not Rain (Fire Records). Review by Peter Lindblad.

Coast of Light (Bloodshot Records). Review by Randy Radic.

“Braveheart.” Review by Randy Radic.

Country Super Hits Volume 2 (Sky Crunch). Review by Judy Craddock.

Swapping slapstick comedy for soapy melodrama, She Shoots Straight hits the target for exciting Hong Kong “Girls with Guns” action.

“No Favors” (Trash Casual Records). Review by Randy Radic.

You’re New To This Aren’t You? (Mint 400 Records). Review by Randy Radic.

“Anywhere” Music Video Premiere. Review by Randy Radic.

King of the Dogwoods (Omnium Records). Review by Peter Lindblad.

Neko Case brings Nora O’Connor and Destroyer to Grand Junction, Colorado, on her Neon Grey Midnight Green tour — an extended love song for wild creatures of this warm, spring night.

Author and Oklahoma native Tonya Little delivers a heartfelt tribute to a treasured Americana music scene with her engaging debut release, Dirt & Spirit:: A History of the Red Dirt Music Scene, Vol. 1.

Blake R. Bickham finds Lauren Coyle Rosen and Ani DiFranco’s conversations to be an intimate portrait of DiFranco’s real life, in The Spirit of Ani: Reflections on Spirituality, Feminism, Music and Freedom.

Rainmaker (Thirty Tigers). Review by Randy Radic.

Solid Ground. Review by Randy Radic.

News from Planet Zombie (Morr Music). Review by Peter Lindblad.

Foggy Mountain Mental Breakdown (Righteous Babe Records). Review by Christopher Long.

Lotus Bridge (Tapete Records). Review by Peter Lindblad.

After 50 years, Cheap Trick still looked great, sounded great, and delivered the goods, leaving 13 quarts of sweat on stage in the process.

Fantasy author Amaris Emersleben talks with Randy Radic about publishing her new novel, Shadows of Cerulean, in an increasingly algorithmic literary industry.