Los Angeles Times

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DVDs: Those box sets and BluRays have been tough to hang onto in the streaming era, which has allowed us all to binge on classics at our leisure until — surprise! — networks and studios grow tired of propping up competitor­s with their archives and pull them back (“30 Rock,” for instance, is leaving Netflix soon, and each month brings more departures). If you’ve already donated your DVD library, maybe one day you’ll be able to rent what you once owned for a monthly access fee to the rights holders. Or, if not, at least you’ll have fewer items to dust while talking yourself into watching “Flaked.”

Luna: With David Lynch enjoying a resurgence after his “Twin Peaks” revival, it’s perhaps fitting that this indie rock band is also making a comeback after 13 years. Led by the arch twang of vocalist-songwriter Dean Wareham, Luna has long shared an echo-laden, literate kinship with Lynch (the band wrote a song that referenced “Wild at Heart’s” Bobby Peru), and the group sounds every bit as renewed as Lynch on a new covers collection, “A Sentimenta­l Education,” which includes takes on the Cure and a late-period Dylan gem, and an alluring all-instrument­al EP, “A Place of Greater Safety.”

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