Daily Archives: September 7, 2012
How To: Take a Portrait
This week, as kids and adults head back to schools around the globe, we’ve joined the collective teaching moment with a series of “How To” videos, a sort of FADER school taught by some talented … read more »
New York Fashion Week: Backstage at Eckhaus Latta Spring 2013
Sure, it’s fun to look at clothes on the runway, but the true fun and hard work of New York Fashion Week goes on backstage, with designers, stylists, models and make-up artists running around like … read more »
100s, “My Activator” MP3
Producer Joe Wax has worked with a variety of Bay Area rappers. His most recent project, which has The Doggfather-style cover art, is with Berkeley, California rapper 100s. Entitled Ice Cold Perm, it’s a diverse … read more »
Video: Gucci Mane, “Bussin Juugs”
Gucci Mane gives an appropriately trap-y visual treatment to his Trap God track “Bussin Juugs.” The video features a shirtless Gucci and his similarly hefty Brick Squad compatriot Waka Flocka counting cash and mobbing in … read more »
Video: Woods, “Cali in a Cup”
Woods’ low-key “Cali in a Cup,” directed by Adarsha Benjamin, makes a good case for the unambitious, pretty music video. This is really just Woods traveling around the country, playing shows and going to the … read more »
New York Fashion Week: On The Street
During New York Fashion Week, flocks of fashion editors, stylists, models and fans flaunt their best and brightest outfits, shoes and attitudes like proud peacocks. We spotted this lady at Milk Studios and had to … read more »
Tauba Auerbach’s Mind-Blowing “RGB Colorspace Atlas”
A talent in her own right, artist Tauba Auerbach has a way of blowing our minds with her collaborative projects. Here, she’s collaborated with Daniel E. Kelm on a new piece titled “RGB Colorspace Atlas.” … read more »
Stream: SFV Acid, “Ashland Slumber”
SFV Acid‘s “Ashland Slumber” is house music in the snappiest possible way, but the sounds he weaves together are more full-bodied and brillo-y than crisp and diamond-cut. The bass beat thunders, the hi-hat hits like … read more »
Watch Dirty Projectors New Short Film, Hi Custodian
Whatever you might think of David Longstreth’s megalomaniacal tendencies, you can’t argue with the man’s ambition. Here, he’s made a gesamtkunstwerk out of Dirty Projectors’ recent LP Swing Lo Magellan in a new short film … read more »
Stream: Marijuana Deathsquads, “Top Down”
Melodic synths, raps from Astronautalis and an elegiac chorus sung by Channy Leaneagh of Polica merge on “Top Down,” a new track from Marijuana Deathsquads, the collaborative side project of Gayngs founder Ryan Olson. As … read more »
