We’ve been “woke” for what feels like a million years, but global justice remains almost entirely out of sight. Karl Blau sets this paradox to music on his latest full-length, Out Her Space. By Blau’s own characterization, the album title is a virtue signal: “out her space” is a reminder to other men that they need to be better about giving women room.

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In Lions Love (…And Lies) — a 1969 film by Belgian-born director Agnes Varda — a young director from New York visits L.A. to discuss the terms around what may be her first Hollywood film. While there, she stays at the rented hillside mansion of relocated Warhol actress Viva, who spends her time lounging and hazily pontificating in isolated comfort with her two lovers (played by James Rado and Gerome Ragni, the creators of the musical Hair).

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It’s poptimism for intelligent dance cynics. After the moribund dejection of 2013’s Obsidian, Baths’s Will Wiesenfeld turns a new leaf in the form of fidgeting virility here on Romaplasm. A record wherein the glitching dynamo transmutes his disillusionment following a ruinous bout with E. coli into eccentric exultations and plaints, Romaplasm sees Wiesenfeld embracing computer-generated ebullience while maintaining an understandably hesitant air about him.

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The Encyclopedia Dramatica, which may or may not be a legitimate source of contrarian knowledge in the face of the “unbiased” approach of Wikipedia, approaches vaporwave as any pre-internet institution would: warily, never making direct eye contact. Of the subculture, it says: “Vaporwave may or may not exist as an established art form or means of expression.

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One day dressing for the rock show later that night, I was dancing in the bathroom. I caught out of the corner of my eye a little of what I looked like and I thought, why mirrors?

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