Winner of the Special Jury Prize for Outstanding First Feature at Sundance Film Festival, Monsters and Men is the debut feature-length from writer and director Reinaldo Marcus Green. In this chilling portrait of race, family and consequence, a young father witnesses the police shooting of an unarmed black man—pushing the the tight-knit community of Bed-Stuy to the brink. (NEON)

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Australia’s foremost maverick poet Peter Bibby returns with new album Grand Champion, out via Spinning Top Records (Pond, Tame Impala). The video for the album’s third single, “Long Baby,” was filmed on a property way out in Western Australia, and depicts an ill-fated love story between two cockatoos. The result is what Bibby describes as “My weirdest video to date,” but the album itself paints a deliciously perturbing picture of Australian shambolic chic. (Spinning Top/Caroline)

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Recently signed to RCA Records, Winnetka Bowling League deliver finely tuned guitar pop bursting with cinematic California imagery on their debut self-titled EP. Displaying an impressive cornucopia of pop culture references, Winnetka Bowling League‘s first single “On The 5”—which premiered in the Los Angeles Times—captures dazzling sunshine and baked asphalt in a melancholy love song just made for freeways. (RCA)

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Bushes & Succulents is Mona Kuhn’s artistic response to the ongoing currents in contemporary feminism. Born in Brazil and based in Los Angeles, Mona Kuhn uses traditional iconography and technical mastery  to portray the complexities of human nature, both tempting and provoking our imagination. The images in Bushes & Succulents  are a celebration of the female essence—confident, raw and elegant, yet confrontational and unapologetic. Kuhn’s use of solarisation processes reveal human imperfections, bringing to the surface a woman’s struggles, strengths and power. (Stanley/Barker)

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Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 11/9 is a provocative and comedic look at the times in which we live. It explores the two most important questions of the Trump Era: How the f**k did we get here, and how the f**k do we get out? It’s the film to see before it’s too late. (GathrFilms)

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Mutual Benefit is the songwriting outlet for folk musician Jordan Lee, a crucial part of the Brooklyn, New York DIY scene. Following a pair of celebrated full-lengths, Love’s Crushing Diamond (2013) and Skip A Sinking Stone (2016), Mutual Benefit releases Thunder Follows The Light—a sublime folk album contemplating the ongoing destruction of the outer world and how it shapes the storms of our inner ones. (Transgressive Records)

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Written and directed by Angie Wang in her directorial debut, MDMA is a semi-autobiographical crime drama that offers the unique perspective of a working-class, Asian-American woman scrambling for status in a world of white, west-coast privilege. Starring Annie Q., Francesca Eastwood and Pierson Fodé, the film follows Angie as she starts her freshman year at a prestigious San Francisco university in 1984. The sudden jolt from hardship to privileged campus life proves to be a challenge, and when her financial aid is cut Angie uses her book and street smarts to synthesize the growing popular drug Ecstasy—becoming one of the west coast’s largest distributors. (Shout Factory)

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He Arrived By Helicopter is the moniker for Brooklyn-based songwriter C.Gibbs (Christian Gibbs), a former member of post-punk outfits Foetus and Modern English. Originally from San Diego, California, Gibbs pursued a solo career and signed to Atlantic Records for one album in 1999 before forming the chamber-rock group Lucinda Black Bear. Gibbs started He Arrived By Helicopter in 2016, following life changes that led to a move out of NYC. The objective for the project and its debut album, The Shiny Hostel, was to release and perform a new body of work in its embryonic form, shortening the length of time from conception to release. (Very Special Recordings)