The FADER Issue 43: Damon Albarn, The Good, The Bad and The Queen, Machel Montano, Los Angeles Hybrid Soul, Black Chiney Soundsystem, Nas, Stephen Marley, White Flight, Jorge Mautner, Akala, Death Vessel, Collie Buddz, Santogold, GLC
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Damon Albarn and The Good, The Bad & The QueenReturn of the Rockers
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Machel MontanoDelirious
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Los Angeles Hybrid SoulElectrocuted Los Angeles
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Black Chiney SoundsystemMiami Sound Machine
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NasThe Epitaph
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GEN FStephen Marley / White Flight / Jorge Mautner / Akala / Death Vessel / Collie Buddz / Santogold / GLC
Masters Of The Universe
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People of Earth! And other planets too! Our new issue is out, on newstands and in free PDF format. It’s our annual Now issue, and features Damon Albarn and his crew in the Good, the Bad, and the Queen, Trinidadian soca superstar Machel Montano, LA’s new breed of hybrid soul superstars-in-the-making, Miami’s Black Chiney Soundsystem, Stephen Marley, White Flight, Nas lyrics and lots lots more. We could go on about how excited we are for y’all to read it – but why not just download the damn thing? Get the issue on iTunes, or subscribe via your most favorite RSS reader here. Download the individual F43 full-issue PDF here. Our DJ-mixed podcast of music from the new issue will be posted next week, so be sure your broadband bills are paid up to the end of the month.
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posted on Jan 8, 2007 in MUSIC tags
Tour Of Duty
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Recent cover stars VietNam’s new album is out on Kemado Records on January 23rd, and on that same day the band hits the road, swinging through much of the land east of the Mighty Mississip. We’re glad dudes are getting out, but looking at the dates, beginning in NYC and looping South before heading to the Great Lakes and back East, we worry they could pick up a cold. So we’re putting word in the streets: if you are going to one of these shows, bring vitamins, soothing balms, soup, scarves and TLC because we take care of our people, people. Tour dates after the jump.
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posted on Jan 8, 2007 in MUSIC tags
Mike Check
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Some Killer Mike updates, live from the studio: continued work on the 16 in the Kitchen record he told us about earlier, new cuts recorded for the Aphilliates’ mixtapes and official album, and general good vibes with the Grind Timers and Outkast scratcher Cutmaster Swift. We are staying tuned.
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posted on Jan 8, 2007 in MUSIC tags
The Sonic Promiseland
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In our 2006 Listmania we put out a call for new albums from the likes of Peedi Crakk, Fam-Lay, Killer Mike, Joanna sans Van Dyke and so on which is kind of obnoxious but, you know, whatever. Conspicuously or maybe not so conspicuously absent from that list, however, was Cody Chesnutt. Chesnutt opted out of the rat race a while back and fucked off to Florida to raise his son, and rather than recording he’s been working on a deeply Chesnutt-ian project called The Live Release – which of course means that rather than us getting gifted with Another Headphone Masterpiece or whatever, to hear new Cody Chesnutt music you gotta get yourself in the same room as Cody himself. Sure it’s kind of disappointing that a man who so clearly had an intensely spiritual love affair with his 4-track isn’t really putting anything to tape for now, but if we really felt like we knew what’s best for Cody, then we’d be deeply confused about who, exactly, we’re dealing with. So we wait patiently, and we go see him when he makes the rare New York appearance. All that said, we just stumbled upon “Boils” a new song that popped up on November’s Beggars release Plague Songs, and at first it stutters but then it just fucking cooks. Then it stutters. Then it cooks. Then a call from a horn and brrrrrrrr-rum “BOILS!”. I mean FUCK he’s good. Track the song down.
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posted on Jan 8, 2007 in MUSIC tags
On Your Bike
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It became trendy (and, it should also be said, not at all unwarranted) to ponder Wherefore art thou, Killa Cam? throughout the past 12 months or so. Save for a few early volleys in the non-starter that was the Great Jay-Z Feud, and the blink-and-you-missed-it mixtape jam “Weekend Love,” our guy (pause) kept an exceptionally low profile in ‘06. No Killa Season follow up, no “We Fly High” remix, none of the grandiose statements that we came to know and love (and obsessively chronicle on our website) about, like, working with scientists to create a new color. But it’s a new year! And with any luck, YouTubes like the above clip of Mr Giles and his gang of teenagers on mountain bikes will become a recurring feature of 007. “It’s not a different look for me,” says Cam of his two-wheeler. “I am a look.”
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posted on Jan 8, 2007 in MUSIC tags
