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Published: May 5, 2010

With his luscious Life of Leisure EP and its blissfully bleary slow-mo standout "Feel It All Around," Georgia's Washed Out (aka Ernest Greene) created some delectably gauzy bedroom electro — and sent bloggerati scrambling to their mix-n-match genre-generators (chillwave?), pun-mills (glo-fi?) and psych textbooks (hypnagogic pop?). He also hit on a moniker that neatly encapsulates the sound's distinct yet ineffable mood, evoking the comfortingly woozy languor and golden haze of possibility that can follow in the wake of utter emotional exhaustion. —K. Ross Hoffman

B. Someday Productions, the risk-taking project of Frankford Avenue's Walking Fish Theatre's founders Michelle Pauls and Stan Heleva, brings Kensington native Mark Borkowski home with plays set in Philly. Gravedigger (through May 23, bsomeday.org) includes three eerie one-acts: Twilight's Child (directed by the author), A Gravedigger's Tale and The Mutilation of St. Barbara. Expect whores, junkies, drama and death — exactly what people assume about the neighborhood. —Mark Cofta

Will Oldham's got a voice like a drunken hobo, a strangled cowboy, a drowning forty-niner. It's rich and warbly and not easily mimicked or improved upon. So raise a jar of moonshine to Philly singer-songwriter Hezekiah Jones (dude knows something about dark country music himself), who is gathering some pals for a big ol' tribute — Hezekiah Jones and Family Sings Greatest Will Oldham Music — Sunday at World Café Live. —Patrick Rapa

The poster child of bespectacled teenage apathy finally makes her DVD debut. Daria: The Complete Animated Series comes out Tuesday, and the ennui-filled, deep-voiced Morgendorffer is just as glorious as her MTV days. The original music (which introduced me to bands like the Cramps) was given the combat boot because of rights issues, but the set contains every episode from the 1997-2002 run, plus the series' two made-for-TV movies. It's good to see some old faves on the tube again: Kevin and Brittany, Quinn and the Fashion Club, and Trent and the rest of Mystik Spiral. But they might change their name. —Molly Eichel

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