Sumerlands, courtesy Jaclyn Woollard. This week features an ’80s throwback from Sumerlands, a blues rock hook for Ukraine from Jace Allen, Swedish punk from No Fun At All, the latest in a string of greatness from Titus Andronicus, some serious banjo playing by Appalachian Road Show, and a collaboration…

Titus Andronicus. Courtesy: Ray Concepcion. Patrick Stickles isn’t in the greatest of moods. He answers the phone outside the Crocodile in Seattle, where Titus Andronicus played the night before. The band’s van is broken down and he and his bandmates are stranded. Stickles nursing a slight hangover from the night…

New Jersey indie rockers Titus Andronicus, named after William Shakespeare’s first tragedy, return with their sixth studio album, An Obelisk. It comes comes just 15 months after predecessor A Productive Cough. Prolific frontman Patrick Stickles wrote both albums around the same time but split the material into two albums. An Obelisk‘s bare-bones power is the yang…