If My Dinosaur Life has a theme it’s about a breakup and whether Motion City Soundtrack singer Justin Pierre really wants to care about it. On opener “Worker Bee”—a blast of Blink-182 riffs (whose Mark Hoppus produced this album)—he sings, “It went from no good to fucked up to over.” Later, on “Her Words Destroyed My Planet,” he shrugs off the pain, telling an ex, “I finally shaved off my beard/Sold my Xbox to Jimmy down the street/I even stopped smoking weed” while wild synths and guitars back him up. The Weezer-ish “Motherfuckers” is a rocker in which Pierre lifts a middle finger to bullies and warns, “You need to leave me and my sensitive homeboys alone.” You’ve been warned.

Most people know OK Go more for the choreographed treadmill work of their YouTube sensation video than their actual music. For the uninitiated: The L.A.-via-Chicago band build wild disco-jam pop songs that sound as if The Strokes were crammed through a Prince filter. On their latest, the drums are big, the bass slinky, and the vocals soaring. Start with “Needing/Getting”; the beat thumps and singer Damian Kulash wails, “It don’t get much dumber than trying to forget a girl when you know that you love her” before things crumble into a dub jam. “White Knuckles” is a rump-shaker with hand claps and funk riffs, and “All Is Not Lost” is indie rock ABBA—in a good way. The big, dreamy “In the Glass” is a great closer. It just needs a video.

Heidi Minx interviews Angela Rodriguez about her tattoos and her animal rescue.

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“Infinity climax action” sure sounds dirty, and that’s just how Platinum Games describes its latest. Taking cues from Devil May Cry and an LSD binge, Bayonetta stars a scantily clad witch who wears only her long hair for clothing, shoots guns with her feet, taunts enemies with innuendo, transforms into deadly creatures, and uses her hair for special attacks. If her guns and kicks aren’t doing the trick, the titular vamp turns the violence to 11, summoning eye-opening torture attacks involving guillotines, iron maidens, and high-heeled shoes. In traditional Japanese fetish fashion, the more special attacks she summons, the less hair she has to cover her dangerous curves. There’s probably a plot in there somewhere, but who cares? It’s perverse, weird, and undeniably intriguing.

Heidi interviews actress, Kate Siegel, about how she supports LGBT rights.

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Tattoos are designed for permanence, and the technology behind them is in no hurry to change either. For more than a century, the basic setup used to put ink in the skin of sailors, soldiers, and other skin art fans has been tweaked and fine-tuned while never deviating too far from the original design. After all, tattoo artists aren’t known for chasing the next big thing. But that doesn’t mean that inventors, scientists, and entrepreneurs looking for a quick buck aren’t trying to come up with one. Here are five ways that technology is attempting to change the way we tattoo and get tattooed. 

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After 15 years of kicking goth ass and taking names, AFI put out their best album ever.

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Part Sin City, part Casablanca, The Saboteur stands out from the overcrowded collection of WWII games by going black and white. After the Germans invade France, the only color left is the bold red of Nazi banners hanging over Paris. To restore color to the City of Lights, street-smart Irish race car driver turned French Resistance supporter Sean Devlin must drive the occupiers out of the city by sabotaging Nazi bases, derailing trains, blowing up zeppelins, imploding bridges, stealing intelligence, and shooting everyone wearing a swastika. When Devlin successfully liberates a district, color returns to the streets and the cheese-
eating surrender monkeys actually start fighting back. If the German heat gets close, dip into a French brothel for hiding. They’ll be very thankful for your efforts.