Ripped from the Headlines: April 2020: This Week In Culture: April 19–25, 2020

Before the pandemic, Car Seat Headrest songwriter Will Toledo started wearing a gas mask as part of a new costume. Now that masks are essential accessories for anyone leaving the house, its function and meaning have changed—from a way of hiding his insecurities from his audience to a commentary on the new normal. The band has a new album out. Melior means "better" in Latin, and after some time in French that became améliorer, "to make better."

Brittany Howard's new record Jaime is named for her sister who passed away when Howard was eight. The record, her first since leaving Alabama Shakes, has received rave reviews from fans and critics alike. Cadere means "to fall" in Latin, and cadence refers to where the beats fall in a poem or how chords resolve in music.

Tom Brady accidentally walked into the wrong house, terrifying the homeowner, David Kramer. Kramer lives next door to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers offensive coordinator, who Brady was supposed to visit. As soon as he realized his mistake, Brady apologized and left immediately. Kramer said he was stunned and speechless.

Zoom classes and chats definitely make quarantine easier to bear, but why do they wear us out so much? The limitations of the technology — pauses, poor sound and image quality, glitches — require much more attention to process than an in-person conversation. Experts recommend sticking to essential calls and taking breaks between them, and also considering whether voice calls or simple document sharing might be better in some cases.

Like the Houston Astros, the Boston Red Sox also stole signs in 2018. But Major League Baseball determined that their offense was far less serious than the Astros, so they received a much less severe punishment: one employee was suspended and the team lost a second-round draft pick.

Disney Plus is hard at work making yet another Star Wars series. In addition to renewing The Mandalorian for a third season, the network has hired Leslye Headland to create a show set in a different period of the timeline. Headland is the co-creator, executive producer, and showrunner of Russian Doll on Netflix.

While most movie and television studios are scrambling to figure out what to do with their fall schedules and beyond, Netflix has tons of content on deck well into 2021. Because they release shows all at once, they make things farther ahead of time and thus have more finished projects and many more in post-production that can be done safely during the current crisis.

Post Malone is live-streaming a Nirvana tribute on April 24 to raise money for the World Health Organization. It's free to watch, though he will encourage contributions and Google will match up to $5 million in donations.

Just in time for the economic catastrophe, Apple has introduced a new iPhone SE. Based on the design of the 6, 7, and 8 models, it nonetheless has the new A13 bionic chip, which means it will get software updates for years to come: a useful selling point as you pester your parents for a new phone during a pandemic. Tactilis means "tangible" or "touchable" in Latin.

For his upcoming EP Tourism, singer-songwriter Henry Jamison co-wrote a song with one of his heroes, Grizzly Bear's Ed Droste. Droste sings backing vocals on Green Room. The EP drops on May 15. Wistful is a word of uncertain origin, and is the perfect descriptor for staring out your window, wishing you could hang out with your friends.