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FADER TV: Open Bar with Holiday Shores

Sam Hockley-Smith — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:31:21 +0000

The best thing about doing these Open Bar editions of FADER TV at Heathers is watching bands figure out how to perform in cramped spaces with nothing but the equipment they brought with them, after we’ve crammed them into unwieldy corners and given them beers. In this episode with Florida’s own Holiday Shores, singer Nathan [...]

Red Cafe, “Heart And Soul” MP3

Felipe Delerme — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:28:01 +0000

Red Cafe signed to Bad Boy and we collectively put our head in our hands. Cafe’s ground-up ascension as a New York City hero was well earned, but what has Diddy done for anyone not named Diddy lately? His new show is called “Making His Band,” for goodness sakes, finally acknowledging the actual focus of [...]

Unraveling Mankind’s Mysteries on an Elevator

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:02:07 +0000

The Standard NYC opened a couple of months ago and it’s a gorgeous hotel, a feat of architecture and ideation. Its attention to indulgently avant-garde detail is fully embodied in Marco Brambilla’s “Civilization,” an ominous video installation depicting the long march of mankind towards something like sci-fi purgatory. It’s transfixing and freaky just watching it [...]

Andrew WK does Spoken Word

Erin Hansen — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:18:12 +0000

A while back we were introduced to Byron Kalet’s weird and eccentrically packaged Journal of Popular Noise, a biannual vinyl series featuring off-kilter music submissions from independent artists and musicians. This week, the Summer ‘09 issue dropped and it took a turn for the better into neverneverAndrewWKland, anthologizing spoken word tracks from Andrew WK, Ian [...]

Restless People Soundtrack Your Next Birthday or Wedding

Sam Hockley-Smith — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:16:38 +0000

Please do not take it as a diss when we say that Professor Murder had the potential to be an incredible wedding band. Now in a new iteration known as Restless People, they’ve put a bunch of new demos up on their MySpace page, and hanging out over there for ten minutes is like going [...]

Thrintage: Council Thrift

THE FADER — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:05:30 +0000

Every other Thursday, FADER style contributor Bethany Cosentino crosses boroughs, counties and states to find us fine thrifted and vintage pieces on the cheap for her column, Thrintage. This week in L.A. she checked out Council Thrift. Read her thoughts and peep the steals after the jump. One of the only reasons I ever travel to [...]

Cardan, “Feels Like Home” MP3

Felipe Delerme — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:10:27 +0000

When Harlem went on its first major run in the late ’90s, an adolescent Cardan should have been touring the country and shooting Mase out of cannons as a member of the original Harlem World. He didn’t, but that didn’t stop Priority from trying to release a Cardan solo album that never saw the light [...]

Video: Jenny Lewis, “See Fernando”

Matthew Schnipper — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:32:58 +0000

Who pays for this shit in a shit economy? Spy movie, b-movie, surf rock, pastel. The frivolous lives of artists are still intact. Meanwhile, I’m eating dirt and can’t afford new socks. At least we get Jenny Lewis in short shorts and a swimsuit.

Topman Fall 09 Sneak Peek

Chioma Nnadi — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:30:18 +0000

Topman fall 2009 is conveniently sliced into three digestible mini-collections, which means dudes will be able to indulge at least three of their favorite alter egos next season—let’s call them Dashing Dorian, Moody Marcus and Rugged Ralph for organizational purposes. The lookbook is styled impeccably, and of course, there are tons of great pieces to [...]

Dintun, “Ena” MP3

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:24:49 +0000

At first this Dintun track sounds like someone tossing a bunch of rubber balls around a tiny square room, with lots of cool sounds but no discernable rhythm or direction. But then, as if by magic, everything starts to quantize itself, and the helium-filled beats and synths fall together into a stuttering, future-minimal 4/4 pattern, [...]

DJ Cliffy, “Black Rio 2 Promo Mix” MP3

Peter Macia — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:30:55 +0000

Look, we know how much we talk about the weather on this site, but what can we say, we’re trapped in big-windowed offices and it is perfect outside. And when it’s not perfect outside, we put on music like Black Rio 2 and think about where it is perfect outside. DJ Cliffy, who curated the [...]

Twista f. Lil Boosie, “Fire” MP3

Sam Hockley-Smith — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:30:36 +0000

Listening to this, we have to question why Twista would even bother working with any producer but The Legendary Traxster, who, besides being responsible for a bunch of Chicago rap classics by Twista and Do or Die, has perfected this sort of breezy, late-evening creep. With space for Twista to slow down a bit, a [...]

Cooly G Rinse FM Podcast MP3

Matthew Schnipper — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:06:03 +0000

Cooly G’s Love Dub EP is two sided, with the title track being a loud whispered Sade meets dubstep simmer while the flip, “Narst,” is a more stressful Hunt For Red October-style string-laden darkness, echoed percussion and violent keys. Her recent Rinse FM podcast jingles somewhere in between, two-stepped uptempo female vocal house variations reigning [...]

Get Major Lazer on Amazon for $3.99!

Peter Macia — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:11:18 +0000

For today only, Amazon.com is letting us offer current FADER cover Major Lazer’s Guns Don’t Kill People Lazers Do to the world for just $3.99 as part of their Daily Deal. We did the math and that is a mere 30 cents per mindmelting End Times dubplate (mp3 dubplate)! Go here to get it before [...]

Ghetto Palms: Jahdan Blakkamoore / 77Klash

Eddie "Stats" Houghton — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:24:21 +0000

It’s been a long, long time coming…but y’all knew a Klash was gon’ come. Or more accurately a Klash and Jahdan, because it would be criminal to overlook Klash’s partner in crime, he of the coffee in a thermos-like niceness on the singjay stylings. Friends of the column and spiritual godfathers of 2000Tone, 77Klash and [...]

Sabrina Dehoff’s Naturesque Collection

Chioma Nnadi — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:31:22 +0000

It’s been about a week since German designer Sabrina Dehoff showed her spring 2010 at Berlin fashion week. Though, truth be told, we’re still hooked on this season’s offering, a collection which happens to be Dehoff’s first foray into the land of dressmaking after a long run of making the loveliest jewels. We shot [...]

Buraka Som Sistema, “IC19 (Toadally Krossed Out RMX)” MP3

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:27:23 +0000

We bought this track off iTunes the other day because we have an obsession with Toads that would rival an ornery 11-year-old Mark Twain character. Toadally Krossed Out’s tracks so far are ebulliently creative, ravetastic little numbers and their sampling of various ribbits, sproings, creepy chortles, and cricket twerks represent the specific coordinates where the [...]

Ben Degen’s Rainbow Depression

Peter Macia — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:17:30 +0000

Native Brooklynite Ben Degen has been lighting up the FADER office walls with his colorfully complex paintings and drawings for a minute now (mini-prints off his website, technically), so it is only right that we alert the entire Tri-State area to his inclusion in the just-opened The Ankle Bone Is Higher On The Inside at [...]

Dam Funk, “Toeachizown” MP3

Peter Macia — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:58:42 +0000

From Stones Throw: Dam-Funk is currently putting finishing touches on his debut album Toeachizown which will be released this Fall as 5/LP set - two and a half hours of music - with CD version to follow. Uh, dudes. Where are we going to get the money to buy enough weed for FIVE DAM FUNK LP’S? Only [...]

FADER TV: On The Road With Bacardi B-LIVE: Episode 17 - Charlotte

Hanly Banks — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:21:48 +0000

Bacardi B-LIVE hit Charlotte, North Carolina last week for an old-fashioned dance party and some chillin’ at the Holiday Inn with A-Trak. Trizzy is no stranger to The FADER blog, but we thought it would be nice to get him out from behind his laptop and in front of our cameras. The good news is [...]