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World Premiere! The FADER Issue #71: Lykke Li, Lil B & Young L + Odd Future
Hitting digital and physical newsstands on or before December 14th is our annual NOW Issue, featuring exclusive cover stories and features on our picks to set the pace for next year. Globetrotting pop...
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Grab Our New Fall/Winter Playlist on Rdio
We love talkin at ya’ll on Facebook and Twitter and hope you wanna keep that conversation flowing tunewise over at Rdio, a streaming music site with a far and deep reaching collection of hits that …...
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This Week in The FADER: December 5, 2010 Edition
*We announced our brand new annual NOW issue featuring Lykke Li, Lil B & Young L, Odd Future, and Jamie XX. FADER #71 hits real and digital newsstands December 14th! *We started counting down to …...
View ArticlePhotos: FADER 71 Release Party Starring Lykke Li
It’s real winter now, the stage where your eyes automatically squint when you walk outside because the water in them is beginning to contract and freeze. Last night, FADER 71 cover babe Lykke Li...
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FEATURE: Getting to the Heart of Lykke Li
Lykke Li has been in Stockholm almost nine months, her longest stay in years, and she’s dying to get out. She’s been working here on her second album with Bjorn Yttling, of Peter Bjorn and … read more »
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The meatballs at Pelikan, a restaurant on Blekingegatan street in Stockholm, are the size of man-fists and there are four of them to an entrée. I’m usually good with cleaning a plate, but they...
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The FADER Issue 71 Podcast MP3
So you’re done with college for the semester? Headed for the first time to your future wifey’s house, or towards a home you barely remember? We proudly recommend our FADER 71 Podcast as a backtrack …...
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FEATURE: Lil B, Young L and Odd Future are the Teen Wolves of California...
Admission to the fame party‚ that 24/7 bacchanal of tangled limbs, free shit, Schedule IV drugs, paparazzi strobe, chlamydia, tiger pets, emotional illiteracy, macchiatos and mug shots‚ always follows...
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FEATURE: Jamie XX Might Have Something to Say
Sometime around 3AM in rainy Boston, the girlfriend of the guy who let us have an after party in his apartment gets curious enough to ask what band we are in. JB says, “The XX,” … read more »
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Roach Gigz, Roachy Balboa 2 Mixtape MP3
Yesterday Bay Area rapper Roach Gigz, a man not yet 25, released an excellent tape that anticipates his forthcoming first actual album Therapy Sessions. We would and should have said so sooner, but...
View ArticleReheater: CTI Records and the Re-Rebirth of Cool
Taken from the current installment in FADER #71 of our recurring Reheater column, this time focusing on CTI Records’ The Cool Revolution, available on Amazon. In the creative desert that was ’70s jazz,...
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GEN F: Oneohtrix Point Never
Dan Lopatin talks like a stoned professor, punctuating complicated musical theories with asides about weed and hanging out late night. Across a restaurant table on a rainy day, he’s explaining how some...
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GEN F: Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso practices in the least inviting building in Brooklyn. From the outside, it looks like the kind of windowless old factory where puppies go missing and children’s bicycles are melted to...
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GEN F: Zola Jesus
In 2010 America, it’s strange to marry young. A culture of divorce, financial instability and later-blooming adulthood conspire to delay a youthful rush to the altar. So it’s surprising to find out...
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GEN F: Roach Gigz
After a dry spell and several months moping about it, a couple things happened in Roach Gigz’ life that got him back to rapping. First, he totaled his scraper and had to cop a shitty … read more »
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GEN F: Inc.
Andrew and Daniel Aged, the brothers behind Inc. (formerly Teen, Inc.), really want you to believe that they’re just regular guys. “We’re fun, but it’s a totally normal band,” Andrew says. “Trying to...
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Gen F: Anika
When Anika first auditioned with Beak>, the ongoing pet project of Portishead founder Geoff Barrow, she had no idea she was sitting in with the group whose albums shaped her elder siblings’...
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Stream: Lykke Li’s Album Wounded Rhymes
When we interviewed Lyyke Li for our FADER 71 cover feature, she said she didn’t want to call the process of making her new album Wounded Rhymes therapy, that she saw a proper therapist for … read more »
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