Live execution! Live on stage! Mark Eisenstein’s The Electric Chair tells the story of a shoe salesman attempting to revive his failed career as a comedian, sharing the stage with an electric chair.

IIOI/KOJI (No Sleep). Review by P. McEver.

He looks like Jesus Christ. And preaches like St. Francis of Assisi. Some say he’s “a kook.”

Kristin Hersh of Throwing Muses and 50 Foot Wave talks about her life right as she was exploding, in the good ways and the bad, in her memoir Rat Girl.

Mechanical Bride (Stem and Leaf). Review by P. McEver.

Cruise Van Nuys EP (Flannelgraph). Review by P. McEver.

Yeth Yeth Yeth (Monotreme). Review by P. McEver.

(Record Makers). Review by P. McEver.

Some of Us are in This Together (Riot Act Media). Review by P. McEver.

Natural Selection (Sidecho). Review by P. McEver.

Anam Cara (Hello, Sir! Records). Review by P. McEver.

Doom Pop (Sidecho). Review by P. McEver.

We Can Build an Island (SideCho). Review by P. McEver.

Let Go EP (SideCho). Review by P. McEver.

Everything is illuminated in Nina Davenport’s inside peek at the nutty world of Hollywood filmmaking.

Oaks (Holocene Music). Review by P. McEver.

Oh, The Places We’ll Go (K Records). Review by P. McEver.

Our Call Outs (Ephemeroptera/Plan-It-X). Review by P. McEver.

Verbs (Aagoo). Review by P. McEver.

Dragon Chinese Cocktail Horoscope (SideCho). Review by P. McEver.