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  • Interview With Japandroids at the Levi’s/FADER Fort

  • Levi’s® FADER Fort Photos – Day 3

    Photos from Day 2 of the Levi’s® FADER Fort, updated as we go! Photos by John Francis Peters

  • Levi’s® FADER Fort Line-up: Last Day

    Austin, it might be weird weather out there but there should be nothing stopping you from hitting the best Saturday ever, AKA OUR SPOT RIGHT HERE. We’re extremely excited about our line-up and surprises and not-surprises and chill zones under the tent tonight. We’re also excited to hang with you, since it’s technically our last [...]

  • Stylee Fridays: The New Age collection by All for the Mountain

    We caught our first glimpse of the new All for the Mountain collection last month, at Mara Hoffman’s Fashion Week presentation in Nolita. Jewelry designer Carly Margolis and Hoffman have been friends for years, and it’s almost as if the pair were psychically connected when they made their fall 2010 collections—her cosmic jewels the perfect [...]

  • BEST TWEETS EVER.

    We’ve been trying to hold it all the way down over at twitter.com/levisfaderfort. But as posse’d up as we are, we still can’t be everywhere and experiencing everything at once. That’s where you come in: you guys are tweeting maniacs, and we love you for it, so we compiled some of our favorite tweets of [...]

  • Dr Martens For the Office and Everywhere Else

    We wear Dr Martens to work as if they were old fashioned grown up wing tips. But that’s because our job rules and we can wear whatever we want! Except UGGs, of course. That’s always a no here. But if you’re stuck in an office with more rules than that, maybe you can sneak one [...]

  • New Spring Tees From RockersNYC

    RockersNYC channels the streets of the Fillmore for their aptly named Feast of Blaze collection, somehow stirring every glorious stoner cliché into their pot of smoking psychocandy goodness. The full selection of spring 2010 shirts is not up on the online store just yet, but new styles are trickling in thick and fast, like the [...]

  • Levi’s®/FADER Fort Line-up: Day 3

    Halfway through the Levi’s/FADER Fort and still Friday is a doozy. We met the guys from Harlem at The Fort last year, so it’s exciting to see them playing this afternoon. We’ll probably be eating cupcakes while doing so. It’s a windy one today so if the lineup wasn’t already going to make you hold [...]

  • Levi’s® FADER Fort Photos – Day 2

    Photos from Day 2 of the Levi’s® FADER Fort, updated as we go! Photos by Dorothy Hong Photos below by John Francis Peters

  • Interview with First Aid Kit at The Levi’s/FADER Fort

  • Interview With Neon Indian at the Levi’s/FADER Fort

  • Interview With Bomba Estereo at the Levi’s/FADER Fort

  • Face-Off for a Good Cause: Metric vs. Broken Social Scene

    It’s not a battle of the bands, per se, and you get to vote on the winner: Metric and Broken Social Scene have each chosen a cause they feel strongly about, and are competing in the Pepsi Refresh SXSW Challenge for $100,000 to “refresh” a community. Metric’s going for the Women’s Funding Network, whose efforts [...]

  • A Peace Treaty Launches Jewelry Line

    A Peace Treaty have recently added jewelry to their stunning line of hand spun scarves. Designer Dana Arbib and Farah Malik have been working with artisans in far flung places like Pakistan since they started the business, and the new jewels are inspired by Kuchi nomadic tribes of Afghanistan and the Turkoman tribes of Central [...]

  • Interview With Free Energy at the Levi’s/FADER Fort

  • Interview With Crystal Fighters at the Levi’s/FADER Fort

  • Levi’s® FADER Fort Line-up: Day 2

    Levi’s® FADER Fort — Day 2 1:30 – 1:55 pm Yawn 2:15 – 2:40 pm Everything Everything 3:00 – 3:25 pm Best Coast 3:25 – 3:45 pm [...]

  • Interview With J.Cole at The Levi’s®/FADER Fort

  • Pamela Love Will Be Your Personal Shopper

    If you normally struggle picking out which baubles to buy, now’s your chance to let a bona fide expert help you decide. Jewelry designer Pamela Love, who makes about a million things we covet, will be hanging out at Bergdorf Goodman in New York on Saturday from 2pm- 7pm. Love will be showing off her [...]

  • Stunner of the Month

    Stunner of the Month is a new subscription service that drops a pair of sunnies into your lap like a new born babe every month. Started by a bunch of self-confessed goodtimers, the styles are curated according to their well-travelled tastes—so if you receive a pair of blue and white jetsetter frames in the mail [...]

  • Staff Affections

    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 New York’s Pixie Market. Meghan, Pixie Market, New York My favorite item in the store this week is the Day Dream [...]

  • Video Tour of the Levi’s/FADER Fort

    Earlier today before the doors opened on this year’s Levi’s/FADER Fort, we took an opportunity to survey the calm before the storm and give y’all a little peak at how insanely massive this place is. Take a good, long look at the empty space here, because it won’t last long.

  • Oliver Spencer Shoes For Spring 2010

    When we saw these Oliver Spencer Spring 2010 Suede Desert Boots in person back in the cold dregs of December, we thought they’d be the perfect spring compromise: a light handsome Buck style shoe, complete with brick wedge red soles, but rendered with a clunkier almost combat boot-like heft. They’re a transition shoe [...]

  • Awesome Free Levi’s®/FADER Fort Playlist MP3

    Whether you’re feeling what went down at the Levi’s®/FADER Fort today, anticipating the rest of the week, or just chilling in your city and want some ill music, Shockhound is offering a download of some of our favorites, including Dum Dum Girls, Marina & the Diamonds, Neon Indian, Free Energy, Fool’s Gold and MORE. It [...]

  • Ghetto Palms 93: Genesis Riddim / World Premiere!

    Technically, Bobby Konders and Jabba premiered the dumb-heavy new riddim from the leaders of dancehall’s new school last week on their Hot97 show. But since I’ve established my credentials by supporting the Daseca sound and the whole Alliance phenom early, early in the game, I got the greenlight to officially debut it on the web—or [...]

  • Live Video Stream from the Levi’s® FADER Fort

  • Levi’s®/FADER Fort Line-up: Day 1

    It’s a gorgeous day in Austin, Texas, and we’re gearing up (read: PUMPED) for the first day of the Levi’s®/FADER Fort. Special thanks to all the folks in the wristband line: we’re psyched to see you, don’t forget your SPF. Today’s line-up is extraordinarily fun and spans guitar-chugging rock, techno-cumbia, psychedelic synth pop and three [...]

  • Levi’s® FADER Fort Photos – Day 1

    Photos from Day 1 of the Levi’s® FADER Fort, updated as we go! UPDATE: Now with Nas and Damian Marley! Photos by John Francis Peters Photos below by Dorothy Hong Photos by Phillip Angert

  • Trine Søndergaard’s Portraits of the Invisible

    A strude is the mask traditionally worn by the women of Fanø, a small island off the coast of Denmark. It’s also the name for Trine Søndergaard’s latest project, a series of photos on show at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek gallery in Copenhagen starting tomorrow. These days the strude only really gets worn once a [...]

  • Whillas & Gunn: Workwear From Down Under

    Making the case for outerwear from the outback comes new Aussie label, Whillas & Gunn. Like all good rugged men’s clothing, there’s a family story behind the line that starts with Catherine and Richard Whillas. Holding down a healthy brood of 14 rugrats, the Whillas’ made DIY oilskin cloth using a wringer mangler and wax [...]

  • Video: O.Children, “Ruins”

    Look, we can never be mad at O.Children’s Bauhaus-ian guitar cyclones or vocalist Tobias O’Kandi’s scorched-heart baritone. But with this visual for “Ruins,” we find ourselves being fully immersed in their cold cave, waiting for the hypothermic delirium to set in. Whoever had the idea to film this in a freezing cold parking garage so [...]

  • Video: Devendra Banhart, “Baby”

    Ok so in this video Devendra and his Frank Zappa mustache travel into someone’s butt with his friends only to discover that GZA is the ruler of the butt as well as all the creatures that live in it. Is this what people are talking about when they say that LA is a strange [...]

  • Video: Juvenile, “Back Back”

    It’s a pity that we don’t hear from Juvenile very much these days. He’s got one of those voices that will sound good until the world explodes and all that’s left is his gutteral croak, that even works when paired with some of the cheapest videos ever (shout out to the tiny white car jpeg [...]

  • Itemized: Burkman Brothers Tiger Print Shirt

    Every week a different FADER staff member will pick a clothing item or accessory that he or she has lately been spending a lot of time with—or would like to—and write a little love letter to it. We would’ve done a column on who we’re dating but that seemed a little bit much. This week [...]

  • Stream: City Center, “Poolside”

    We’ve been following the career arc of City Center for the last year, and we still haven’t pinned down their sound. They haven’t either, and that’s the beauty of their band. City Center songs range from ambient sketches to tight pieces of blown-out fuzz pop. You could probably put 15 of their songs randomly [...]

  • Heal Yourself and Move: Truth is Light

    For this installment of Heal Yourself and Move, I talked to a bit of an known unknown. Vancouver resident Jason Lev has been quietly making some of the craziest edits being released these days, under the name Truth Is Light. As he says below, three new 12-inches will be coming out in the near future, [...]

  • Premiere: The Suzan, “Home” MP3

    New Friday night getting ready for the party anthem! And hopefully said party will be at The Suzan’s house! “Home” is full-on hyperactive bopping around the dancefloor steez, a spunky number propelled by hollow drum rudders and four-girl vocals that veer from pop melody to chanted anthem. It’s a little bit Bow Wow Wow, a [...]

  • DB49, “Club Pictures” MP3

    We just put this on in the office and spent the entirety of the song trying to figure out what was going on with the beat, which sounds like traveling through a wind tunnel. But considering DB49 (Drunk Before 9)’s mission statement (party jams), this seems like a darker take on a club track—certainly much [...]

  • Aurel Schmidt For Opening Ceremony

    Opening Ceremony commissioned Aurel Schmidt to make a welcome sign for their new shop at the Ace, and it looks like the artist went dumpster diving for inspiration, spelling out the brand’s name in cigarette butts, bloody fingers and leftover rashes of bacon. OC have spilt up the artwork into 15 pieces for a series [...]

  • Video: Rusko, “Woo Boost”

    Never thought of it before, but Rusko makes sense recast as a Max Headroom-style keytar superhero, only instead of talking in a scary stutter he’s the voice of aggressive, grinding synths. Also, Max Headroom never bled binary from his mouthpiece. Rusko supposedly relocated to Los Angeles from London a few months ago, but actually it [...]

  • Daniel Peddle Takes Art Backstage

    As a casting director, Daniel Peddle is more familiar with the high dramatics of a fashion show than most. As an artist, Peddle captures the behind-the-scenes chaos with all the curiosity of a first-time voyeur. Opening at Envoy in New York tomorrow, his latest series of portraits throws the spotlight on the moments before the [...]

  • R Kelly, “Speaking My Language” MP3

    New halftime club closer from Robert. ¡Se habla sexy talk, chica! For real though, he is a master of sensuality in any language. En todos idiomas. Okay, we only speak English and Spanish but he rules in those. Download: R Kelly, “Speaking My Language” (via Rap Radar)

  • Big Space, “Greenside Step” MP3

    It’s unclear if Johannesburg’s many-monikered Big Space (aka “SPACEVEIN THE GIRL WASHER” aka “HIS BELOVED WELL HUNG SON, BIG SPACE GIOVANNVI MOOROSI”) is actually about to drop an album called TROPICAL FANTASY: Operation Sweating Bullets or if he’s just throwing words around for the joy, as he is wont to do. No matter what it’s [...]

  • [Sponsored Content] Q+A: Bob Odenkirk on Breaking Bad

    As far as television shows go, it doesn’t get much bleaker than AMC’s Breaking Bad, the show about a down on his luck chemistry teacher played by Bryan Cranston who discovers he has lung cancer and decides to begin cooking Crystal Meth with an ex-student burnout [Aaron Paul] to make money to leave his family [...]

  • Stream: Autechre’s Album Oversteps

    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 [...]

  • Men’s File: A Magazine for the Retro Man

    In his second editor’s letter, Sydney Schaffer redefines the parameters of nostalgia, suggesting that sometimes looking back is often the best way to move forward. The new issue of Men’s File is a celebration of all things handmade, dissecting everything from the inner workings of a custom-made boot to the construction of a cricket bat. [...]

  • Video Premiere: Yuck, “Georgia”

    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 [...]

  • Theophilus London’s Levi’s® FADER FORT Preview Show on East Village Radio

    We are getting deeply amped about the Levi’s®/FADER Fort in Austin this week. It kicks off on Wednesday and the line-up is, as usual, bananas, plus our pals at East Village Radio are once again broadcasting live and direct on location at the Fort. Yo, protect the stream! We got our homeboy Theophilus London to [...]

  • Growing, “Camera 84″ MP3 + Tour Trailer Video

    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 [...]

  • HBO Posted the Trailer for Treme, David Simon’s Followup to The Wire

    As we read in this super long and super awesome Vice interview with The Wire creator David Simon, he’s been down in New Orleans working on a new show, Treme. HBO put up the first trailer for it. Just a tiny glimpse of John Goodman, but it was enough. Elvis Costello chilling, too. Terence Blanchard [...]

  • Video: Devin the Dude, “What I Be On”

    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 [...]

  • Sweaty Hands: Assassin’s Creed 2

    For our blog Sweaty Hands, a revolving cast of musicians, artists and video game connoisseurs reviews games for PS3, Xbox360 and whatever other consoles exist and are playable. For this installment, Nathan Williams of Wavves is back to review Assassin’s Creed 2. So for starters, anyone familiar with the original Assassin’s Creed platform will be stoked [...]

  • PRGz, “Trap Like Mine” MP3

    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 [...]

  • Stream: She and Him’s Album Volume Two

    New She and Him—duo project of actress Zooey Deschanel and folk mainstay M Ward—has got kohl-eyed indie rock Patsy Cline in Bye Bye Birdie vibes for days. Or 43 minutes. Whichever. Stream: She and Him, Volume Two

  • Bonnie Prince Billy’s Daytrotter Session MP3s

    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 [...]

  • Lies Malucan’s Pop-Up Shop is What Dreams Are Made of

    It’s good times for our wallets when we can finally report on a store in New York where you can’t actually buy anything. Opening tomorrow and sticking around until April 1st, The Dream Shop looks like a place that you could spend a few on the surface, but the shelves of goodies are actually just [...]

  • Welcome to the All New Levi’s® FADER Fort Blog

    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 [...]

  • Pandemonium Jones’ Skull Candle Mix

    The reason that we will forever pay attention to whatever Caps and Jones do—together or separate—is that they are super chilled out when it comes to DJing. Not every mix needs to be a kajillion BPMs a minute and filled with the hottest new shit, and really, dudes will disappear from the DJ circuit only [...]

  • Real Estate Live in New York City MP3s + Video

    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 [...]

  • Pictureplane’s MTYMX Rhinoceropolis Hype Package & Rainbow Arabia RMX MP3s

    NYC show godhead Todd P’s throwing MTYMX this week, a three-day festival/fun explosion in Monterrey, Mexico, but the NYC show stalwart got some help with the lineup from Rhinoceropolis, an awesome DIY warehouse/show spot in Denver which also happens to be Pictureplane’s place of residence. Rhinoceropolis dudes curated a block of bands for Monday that [...]