The Hot List: September 2014

Fans of singer-songwriter Banks's throaty voice, soulful lyrics, and R&B-inflected songs won't be disappointed by her first full-length album, Goddess, out September 5.

Our favorite bluesy rockers are hitting the road on September 5, with an epic North American tour setting sail in Columbus, Ohio. Off the heels of their May album, Turn Blue, the boys have maintained their long-adoring lo-fi fan base, but it's a year for great, enduring bands to graduate to greater, and the duo seems revitalized with a renewed energy that we can't wait to hear on stage.

This month is a good one to start re-decorating your coffee table. Vince Camuto teams with Assouline to release a photo history in the form of a sleek tom, Life of Style; the visual legacy of Fleur Cowles's Flair magazine is celebrated in Rizzoli's The Best of Flair; and Maira Kalman's whimsical illustrations make their way into Ah-Ha to Zig-Zag, an alphabetical book of objects from New York's Cooper Hewitt, ahead of its reopening later this year.

Daring she is. The trailblazing journalist and early feminist Gail Sheehy shares her trials and tribulations—plus a personal look at the many activists and social figures she kept company with—in a new memoir, Daring: My Passages, out September 2 with William Morrow.

The bead-studded works of Iranian multimedia artist Farhad Moshiri take over New York's Galerie Perrotin September 4 – October 4.

New Orleans-hailing buddy band Generationals is back with another easy-listening electro album, Alix, out September 16 with Polyvinyl Records. A follow-up to their sunshiny synth-pop—and, might we say, stellar—2013 album, Heza, the new release takes them on a North American tour beginning this fall in Houston.

Sticking around London post-Fashion Week? A new series of the Mexican artist's playful works on paper and kinetic glass and marble sculptures will make their debut at the Max Wigram Gallery in Daylight Found Me With No Answer.

“This album is stylistically as close as we can get to what I think I’ve always imagined us being," The New Pornographers lead singer Carl Newman has said of the band's just-released, infectious sixth album, Brill Bruisers. In addition to winning our tentative vote for best album cover of the year, the new release celebrates the majesty of big rock, elevating the Vancouver octet's characteristically thick sound to new, polyphonic heights.

Estranged twins Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader reunite after simultaneous near-death experiences, repairing their relationships and, in turn, their own messes of lives. Best. Twins. Ever.

If you see one movie this month, make it This Is Where I Leave You, Shawn Levy’s wry comedy about an estranged family that comes together (a lot of that recently) after the death of its patriarch. Its uproarious cast, which includes Tina Fey, Adam Driver, Jason Bateman, Jane Fonda, Rose Byrne, Connie Britton, Abigail Spencer, Dax Shepard, Ben Schwartz, and Corey Stall, collides perfectly imperfectly to create that subtle, awkward, and familiar dynamic of shared personal history and space.

The futuristic, kaleidoscopic works of Nick Cave make their way from Jack Shainman's Kinderhook, New York outpost, The School, to his Chelsea gallery spaces for an exhibition in two parts, September 4 – October 11.