This week’s best new songs roundup features Grace Ives’ fizzy synth-pop, Heather the Jerk’s old-world garage-punk, and Swapmeet’s woozy, overdriven blur.

On Mitski’s superb new album, “Nothing’s About to Happen to Me,” she writes about connections, separations and what it means to have a home, all with very mixed emotions. She ponders a breakup in “If I Leave,

Plus, Boy George in Atlantic City, Ike Reilly on South Street, and the Everyone Orchestra in Ardmore