Electro vets Autechre’s upcoming release Oversteps is furnished with dark bells and percussion that transforms from smooth into rugged over the course of one track. Parts of the album feel like the musical personification of a wormhole (the shortcut through space/time, not the dirt one). It sometimes sounds like it could soundtrack a secret underwater [...]

Yuck, who are British and probably have never been to Georgia, bury their vocals in guitar that bleeds across chords to make a sloppy slack mess. It is awesome. It also reminds us a little bit of Dinosaur Jr. and later, the first, cautious steps from grunge into what would become known as “alternative.” But [...]

The ad that pops up during Growing’s tour trailer (which you can catch up after the jump) says “let’s make a baby,” which (no offense) is not the act closest to our minds when listening to “Camera 84″ (or really any of their songs, for that matter). We’re more on like spring break peyote trip [...]

You already know what Devin be on but in case you need a visual, this video and its amazing “Open Jar” party (2-steps courtesy the Coughee Brothaz) is a pretty explicit depiction. To underscore it, the scratching on this song sounds like Devin staccato hacking from smoke. Did you know Devin supports his habits from [...]

Listening to PRGz‘ “Trap Like Mine” late night over the weekend, it felt like we’d hit a turning point when it came to Huntsville rap. The reason the music from that city feels so exciting is that it came to us fully formed with a distinct sound. It touched on the slow mugginess of Dungeon [...]

Daytrotter doesn’t have the information about who played drums on this Bonnie Prince Billy session, but we’re willing to bet a bunch of our home state quarters that it’s Jim White. The recording here of “81,” from BPB’s Get On Jolly EP has butterfly wing flap drums, light fluttering over Will Oldham’s sad, Southern preacher [...]

Expanding on our frequent partnership with Levi’s® in creating the biannual Levi’s® FADER Forts in Austin, Texas and New York City, we now present levisfaderfort.com, a year-round website dedicated to the events, music and fans surrounding the name now associated with the best music party on the planet (we’re biased). Stay tuned for tons of [...]

OMG we were at this show! It was super fun. Music Hall of Williamsburg, if you’ve never been there, is a killer place to see a show, good sight lines and great sound. From the little side balcony, we could see what we assumed was NYC Taper with microphones as tall as stilts, so we [...]

Got that constipated flow/you know my shit’s on lock has got to be one of the grossest lyrics we’ve ever heard, but a poop reference is also pretty appropriate in a song titled “Big Dawg.” Eww. It’s still interesting to think of Wayne as JUST the hook guy on a song, something he clearly revels [...]

It’s hard to believe it’s been almost a year since we last set foot on the sun-baked soil at the Levi’s®/FADER Fort in Austin, Texas. How time flies outside of the Lone Star State. Lucky for us, it’s almost time to go back for another four days of good times and great music, [...]

As FADER editor Sam Hockley-Smith noted a couple weeks ago, there is an out of control zeitgeist of people filming their videos in the woods. This one’s not about getting hacked to pieces, though—more like becoming a ribbony woodland sprite who moonlights as a modern dance choreographer. It works well with the heartthrobby low end [...]

Kinda weird to make a video for “Made,” which almost feels like an outro, perpetually on the melancholy side, the horns can barely stand up to Gonjasufi’s ragged voice. Appropriately, the video is shot in gritty black and white, and is mostly just clouds rolling by. Feels like the greyest, rainiest hungover Sunday ever. Basically, [...]

In director Daihei Sibata’s birth odyssey, graceful cilia tendrils fan out from cells, burst into light, grow into anemone-like plants and eventually develop into a real human person. It’s a celebration of life (um, it’s titled “The Light of Life”) but beyond the literal, it looks as airy and beautiful as deep-sea creatures and seems [...]

We’ve long been fans of Toumani Diabate for the healing vibes emitted from his kora. We’ve also long been fans of Akwaaba, the label devoted to good recordings of—and fair deals for—African musicians. Via Akwaaba comes the music of Gambian kora player Jali Bakary Konteh, who, like a next generation kora player, puts a full [...]

We heard a rumor last week that Theophilus was working on new stuff and was singing a lot, and this behind the scenes studio clip seems to confirm that, with the charming Mr London and Mr Hynes working on some breezy potential summer jams with the lovely Ms Vashtie. The video also declares the existence [...]

Clearly the least interesting thing to the entire universe about the video for “Telephone” but the thing we care about most, is that 2:53 deep—and that’s before the music has even started—Lady Gaga, in “prison for bitches,” picks up a call from Beyonce in a spiked leather jacket. The shot pans out quick and for [...]

Welcome to the Videodrome. Today it is a moving pixels edition of Ghetto Palms, featuring 3 new videos (and one audio-stream) from some of my favorite recurring characters. I estimate that each clip has about 30 frames per second. Multiplied by an average of 4 minutes = 7,200 frames x 3 videos = 21,600 images [...]

This Method Man, Raekwon and Ghostface album is shaping up to be really solid. Like, solid in the way that a trio of dudes who know their new place in rap’s hierarchy and have complete control over it can be. All three are enjoying a sort of second career—rapping hyper-detailed crime stories over dirty soul [...]

Resident Advisor has this one linked as their “mix of the day.” Yeah, no shit. Moodymann! The serious OG has dropped a mix for RBMA, that is just as its title says, full of tracks to bump weekends at the roller rink. First half or so is all unknown and then he just lets it [...]

FADER fam and NYC fixture Elliot Aronow has been hosting a super-secret underground TV party at Santos, with Soft Circle’s Hisham Bharoocha acting as the Max Weinberg to his Conan O’Brien. We were there for one this week, and it was ridiculous fun almost to the point of rapture. This is a clip from the [...]

Every Thursday, FADER style assistant Alex Frank asks employees and employers at our favorite shops around the world what their most cherished in-store item is at that exact moment. This week, we caught up with London’s Glass Boutique. Lisa, Glass Boutique, London This Won Hundred Brass Jacket is probably one of my favorite jackets for spring [...]

If the recent bout of warm weather in New York has you itching to get out of the house as much as us, why not pop your head in at 238 Mulberry Street, the site of Paola Suhonen’s month-long pop-up shop. As the designer behind Finnish clothing line IVANAhelsinki and editor-in-chief of the modern [...]

Heavy vibes all around for this video from Moon Duo’s Sacred Bones EP of the same name. Shot in ridiculously high detail (you can see dude’s wrinkles’ wrinkles) by Jacqueline Castel—who also directed this and this—not a whole lot goes on for the video’s five minute run time, but it doesn’t need to. Instead, the [...]

This video is basically an extended commercial for cell phone watches, which appear to be somewhat like the 2010 version of the Nextel. We miss the sound of the chirp beeping through Brooklyn (not to mention the accidental eavesdropping of unintelligible, half-screamed conversations), so if this catches on, our summer is completely MADE. Killer Mike [...]

Pure Ecstasy are getting pegged as the latest in a long line of bands that traffic in nostalgia: abstract emotions for times not shared with the general public. Maybe it’s because of the reverbed vocals or because of the way the guitars swirl and ebb, but this just seems like plain good songwriting. Having heard [...]

To add a little more adventure to our week, we’ve invited Jeff Thrope of Cold Splinters to treat us to a taste of the great outdoors every Wednesday. Check out his new column, and then do yourself and your computer a favor, and go sit under a tree. A few years ago, after seeing a photograph [...]

This “Bulletproof” is a completely pumped up cover of George Clinton’s ’80s funky peace anthem of the same name. Ray Mang is the alter ego of UK dance music producer/writer/engineer Raj Gupta. Lady Miss Kier is just the fabulous Lady Miss Kier, blasting her vocal into diva outer space. Together, everyone’s agreed to up the [...]

Yodit Ecklund grew up building sandcastles on beaches across Africa and has taken her water-baby status into adulthood with Bantu, her line of swimsuits. The Cali-based designer recently relaunched her website, and the new collection is shot Sahara-style, amongst sand dunes and camels. Ecklund has a soft spot for ’70s Ghanian prints—there’s a great new [...]

It’s a dope day for Southeast Asian rock vibes, particularly when they’re ill psych versions of things like KC & the Sunshine Band sung in Khmer, plus a grip of other ’60s and ’70s jams from mostly Cambodia and Thailand. “Kamchruoch” is Khmer for “fireworks.” Mike 2600 and Prince Klassen smooshed together this mixtape in [...]

Dr. Dog have been with us through a lot of important life events: realizing that they’re not so secretly kind of a jam band, seeing them on the cover of Relix magazine and subsequently realizing that Relix magazine is pretty sweet…the list could go on. But possibly most importantly: watching them go from their humble [...]