Consumer Guide: April, 2021

Dispatches from the inferno as seen from Melbourne, the Twin Cities, Detroit, NYC and Prague. Plus the White Stripes ring the bell, Neil Young empties the rust bucket, and '60s blues wrecks L.A.

Tamar Aphek: All Bets Are Off (Kill Rock Stars) Jagged, guitaristic Israeli femme fatale cum femme maudit would as soon you fear her as feel her in a world where love is always warfare (“Russian Winter,” “Nothing Can Surprise Me”) *

Sarah Mary Chadwick: Me and Ennui Are Friends, Baby (Ba Da Bing) Although there are two longterm relationships on the biogr…