By: Jessamyn West

THE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM — as good as America gets.

By: James Hannaham

HABIT PATTERNS — a 1954 behavioral corrective film.

By: John Overholt

The fuzzy, irregular, magical deckle edge.

By: Robert Wringham

STEVEN UNIVERSE — exciting, hilarious, moving, glamorous, inclusive, and kind.

By: John Hilgart

MAKING GRATEFUL DEAD ALBUMS — in a parallel universe.

By: Anshuman Iddamsetty

THE FULL BODY PROJECT — the moment belongs to no one else.

By: Colin Dickey

Widespread Panic — I don’t care whether or not you like them.

By: Alice Boone

COSTUME JEWELRY as Oblique Strategy.

By: Dan Fox

Thomas Dolby’s EUROPA & THE PIRATE TWINS. Unrequited love — or Brexit?

By: Claire Lehmann

THE APPARATUS REVEAL

By: Erik Davis

Tuxedomoon’s “Time to Lose”: a haunting layered confection of longing and regret.

By: Drew Daniel

The Human League’s “Marianne”: the emotional stakes keep changing.

By: Jessamyn West

Blondie’s “Hanging On the Telephone” — fuck this intermediated bullshit!

By: David Smay

The B-52s’ “Dance This Mess Around” — a cargo cult for Bubblegum music.

By: Tor Aarestad

Oingo Boingo’s “Little Girls”: Swiftian, or adolescent Hitler skit?