!! OMG, The Champagne Room: Blake Mawson on horror, hustle, and calling mom for his big 3 !!

The Champagne Room guest list has been enviable lately: queer punk icon Bruce LaBruce, Jay Baruchel with designer wife Rebecca-Jo Dunham Baruchel, and author Téa Mutonji, with DJ baddie Miss Bashful still to come! This week: Canadian filmmaker Blake Mawson (I Hate People, People Hate Me, Orville Peck, PYOTR495) on genre, queerness, and the pole and wig he worked long before festivals came calling.

What do strippers and indie filmmaking have in common? A taste for autonomy and a distaste for censorship. Oh, and he calls mom mid-taping so the hosts can pull his big 3. Check it out above!

!! OMG, new music: La Roux returns with ‘Babyline’ video !!

It’s been twelve years since Trouble in Paradise, and Elly Jackson has decided that the wait is over!

Babyline is the second single off Old Flames, La Roux‘s fourth album, out November 6, and it arrives with the kind of bright, unbothered synth work that made everyone fall for her in the first place. She’s called this record the sound of ending up “happier, lighter, braver”.

Check out Babyline above! Thoughts?

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