Erykah Badu: But You Caint Use My Phone

Since releasing her seven-minute take on Hotline Bling and another track “Phone Down,” her R&B highness Erykah Badu has had us waiting impatiently for her mixtape “But You Caint Use My Phone”—for which every song is related to the device that keeps us connected (or not). The Hotline Bling remix is renamed “Cel U Lar Device,” there’s a cover of New Edition’s “Mr Telephone Man” …

Ornella Fieres Blends Images of Space with Otherworldly Effects

For her upcoming exhibition “Looks like you tried to go somewhere that does not exist,” artist Ornella Fieres points out how our Internet browsing tendencies shape the way we view the rest of the world. She’s taken intergalactic images and painted over them with otherworldly digital effects, resulting in photos that distort the way we perceive the universe and what we recognize to be real …

Abelard: I’m OK For Now

There are notes of ’80s and ’90s pop and R&B in Melbourne-based Abelard’s “I’m OK For Now” despite its sumptuous electronic make-up. The producer (who previously remixed the Seinfeld theme to the internet’s delight) samples vocals from the ’80s disco jam “Change of Heart” by Change and sprinkles digitalesque artifacts all over. His style—self-described as “glitterwave”—is sweet, a little nostalgic, while being pointedly current. If …