Give a kid an inch and he’ll take a yard. FADER TV field reporter David Bevan was recently given carte blanche to interview deep woods troubador Bon Iver on video, so what did he do? Took him to Relaxation Studio in Chinatown for a massage. Great dude! You’re fired. Oh wait there’s another video of Bon Iver performing an easy, lovely acoustic version of “Flume” off For Emma, Forever Ago just for FADER TV. So you’re rehired Bevo. And by by hired we mean working for promo chocolate and leftover wine.
San Francisco’s Girls played last Friday inside of a sweat-chamber disguised as a music performance venue. Seriously, we felt like we were doing bikram yoga all night. But the heat only contributed to the beachy-keen atmosphere induced by Real Estate, Beach Fossils, and Kurt Vile—creating the illusion that we were somewhere in California, [...]