EDITOR'S LETTER

Our main music feature is a suite of seven pieces with the specific focus of talking to artists about their art and their craft–the hows and whys of what they do. To the mainstream world, it might seem like the people in our Magnificent Seven have nothing to do with each other, but you know The FADER–you know us!–so you trust there’s some sort of thread connecting Omar Rodriguez-Lopez of the Mars Volta and the rapper David Banner to Eleanor Friedberger of the Fiery Furnaces and Josh Homme of Queens Of The Stone Age (and Joanna Newsom and Hisham Bharoocha and Antony, um, Johnson). And then we did some fashion things, because it’s spring and well, this is our Spring Style Spectacular. In all likelihood you’ll lose yourself in these pages for a while.

KNOX ROBINSON