Music: Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt: Made Out of Sound

Like last year’s glorious Soundkeeper, which reteamed Steve Gunn with John Truscinski, March’s Made Out of Sound features a guitarist (Orcutt) and drummer (Corsano) who’ve been semi-regular collaborators through the years. And once again, familiarity breeds great success. The record’s seven instrumental tracks play more like jams than “songs,” yet the veteran experimentalists’ real-time compositional chops make each piece memorable within the rhythmic, hypnotic whole. Billorcutt.bandcamp.com/album/made-out-of-sound. –Spencer Patterson

TV: Made For Love

Based on a novel by former Las Vegan Alissa Nutting, the eight-episode Made for Love is the twisted, bleakly hilarious story of Hazel Green (played brilliantly by Cristin Milioti), a quick-thinking grifter on the run from a suffocating marriage to obtuse tech CEO Byron Gogol (Billy Magnussen), who implanted a chip in her head that constantly monitors what she sees, hears and feels. This Black Mirror-like satire of toxic masculinity, internet stalking and even quarantine-like isolation couldn’t speak more clearly to our present moment. HBO Max. –Geoff Carter

Book: Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri

The latest novel from author Jhumpa Lahiri—her first in 10 years, and her first written in Italian (and translated into English)—is a lovely meditation on an unsettled life. In a series of vignettes, we meet an unnamed woman whose seemingly tranquil life belies a deeper restlessness. As in Lahiri’s other novels (most notably the Pulitzer Prize-winning Interpreter of Maladies), her gorgeous lyricism grabs you from the first sentence and doesn’t let go till the last. This is a novel to be savored, from a writer whose talent transcends language. Knopf

Doubleday. –Genevie Durano

TV: Outdoor Nevada

Venerable host John Burke brings the outdoors into your living room with 10 new episodes of Outdoor Nevada on Vegas PBS. In Season 4, Burke explores rock climbing and biking in Southern Nevada; he encounters bighorn sheep and meteor showers; he drinks at the Pioneer Saloon and hikes in Sloan Canyon; and he does it all (safely) amid a global pandemic. Become a Vegas PBS member to watch all the seasons online, or watch for free the old-fashioned way. Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m., Channel 10, vegaspbs.org/outdoor-nevada. –C. Moon Reed

Show: Amanda King at Nevada Room

The Vegas Room has emerged as an essential local live entertainment venue during the pandemic—one that allows artists complete creativity—and jazz singer Amanda King says she’s honored to soft-open the owners’ expansion at Commercial Center, a larger space dubbed the Nevada Room. “I love the Vegas Room and I’ve seen so many transformative performances there,” she says. “This is a little bigger, but you’ll still get to see those personal, intimate performances.” Her celebration of the life and music of Ella Fitzgerald takes place on the legend’s birthday, with a portion of the proceeds benefiting the Forgotten Song Foundation supporting local artists and musicians. April 25, 7 p.m., $35-$55, 725-206-7059, thenevadaroom.com. –Brock Radke