If metal and jazz had an affair, The Dillinger Escape Plan would be their renegade illegitimate child.

Avenged Sevenfold returns with a flourish in their self-titled fourth release. Despite pushing the limits with new and surprising ideas, the majority of the album’s music retains the power chord-heavy sound.

Coheed and Cambria tends to bring different and highly conceptual music to listeners, but doesn’t hit past highs in part four of its five-part series, “Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Vol. 2: No World For Tomorrow.”

Poetry and art enthusiasts took every chair and sat on the floor of the Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery Tuesday night so they could hear poet Ann Lauterbach read her work. Lauterbach’s reading was part of a larger exhibit, “Whole Fragment,” inspired by her essay “As is: Toward a Poetics of the Whole Fragment.”

Soulja Boy’s debut album is aptly named “Soulja Boy Tell Em.com.” At the heart of the MySpace generation, 16-year-old Soulja Boy fully embraced the capabilities of MySpace and YouTube.