Monthly Archives: January 2011
Exercise Restraint With James Blake’s New Album Sampler
When you google-image search James Blake, the young and strange male-hormoned chanteuse, you’ll see no mention of his mug in the first result page at all, just a lot of sweaty HD Getty images of … read more »
Mara Hoffman’s Bikinis Have Domestic Inspiration
Even though Mara Hoffman‘s latest bikinis are itsy-bitsy, their inspiration comes from large muraled patterns painted on the sides of homes in South African and Zimbabwe. The Ndebele people adorn their houses with beautiful, geometric … read more »
Fleet Foxes, “Helplessness Blues” MP3
Fleet Foxes make patently uncool music, which is actually fine. It’s genuine, open-hearted. Young dudes laying it all out there, soaring melodies, soft harmonies. No one is reinventing the wheel. Your parents will like this … read more »
Is Nicki Minaj About Done With Rapping?
Nicki Minaj appeared on Saturday Night Live this weekend, performing one of her least good/most popular songs, “Right Through Me” wearing an impossibly ridiculous layered wedding dress topped with a lopside upside down cake shaped … read more »
Hercules and Love Affairs’ FACT Mix MP3
Hercules and Love Affair finally put out a FACT Mix, a sort of classic house reference sheet for their Blue Songs album, also out today. The mix closes with Andy Butler’s warehouse acid-weeper remix of … read more »
Video: Black Rob, “Ventilation”
It’s hard to say what exactly keeps bringing us back to Black Rob. The rap industry no longer turns in this dude’s favor, and really, it only briefly did. Maybe that’s part of the appeal. … read more »
Das Racist’s Check Yo Ponytail Mix MP3
The three working men of Das Racist have been all over the place this winter; Puerto Rico, Sundance and the esteemed Carleton College in the last month or so from the tweets we can remember. … read more »
Video: Nicki Minaj Bodied SNL
Last Saturday night NBC pulled an unprecedented Queen Bitch monopoly, holding the attention of Nicki Minaj, John Waters, and Mark Zuckerburg in the same place for one evening. Minaj performed one of the less commanding … read more »
This Week in The FADER: January 30, 2011 Edition
** Hercules and Love Affair’s new album Blue Songs has Enya pan flutes and more gay drama than Black Swan. ** Wiz Khalifa made his television debut and announced the release date of his new … read more »
Suite903: Drippin’ in Jesus for These Warbucks
Every day we ask little black baby Jesus for some blessing that does not come in the form of snow. Our prayers do not always go unheeded. After a couple years of the highest highs … read more »
