Interview With J.Cole at The Levi’s®/FADER Fort

DOUBLE VISION: Restless People

We go to a lot of concerts. More often than not, we end up filming these concerts. But our modern eyes have become bored and weary of looking the same ole’ shots of faces and guitars and faces people make while playing guitars. We are living in the year 2010—isn’t it about time that our eyes caught up with our fast-paced, internet-ravaged brains? Well, FADER TV understands and brings you the second installment of DOUBLE VISION, the new series that captures live performances not once, but twice, and at the same time.

Now witness Restless People play a tropically inspired cover of P.O.D.’s “Alive” at February’s FADER BOWL.

Open Bar With Holly Miranda

When Holly Miranda walked into Heathers, she had just had her picture taken for some glamorous publication where they made her wear tight clothes and slathered her with makeup. “I hate doing that stuff,” she said, in the process of wiping the makeup from her face. Her entrance confirmed everything we had previously believed to be true—that regardless of the fact that Miranda is blowing up big time, she maintains the kind of realness that only Detroit can breed. And in the spirit of blue collar beginnings, she covered the realest musician ever—The Boss. Watch her perform “I’m on Fire” and “Sweet Dreams” off her new album, The Magician’s Private Library, in stores as of this week!

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Double Vision: The Soft Pack Live at Cakeshop

It’s pretty intense when you get a band together at midnight with all their biggest fans in a sweaty basement, and you’re standing a foot away from the bassist who is pounding out jams because it’s his birthday. This happened on Friday at the FADER/Tripwire presented The Soft Packshow. And we wished we could take our near-sighted show goggles off and look at the bigger picture. We wished so hard that our wish came true, and now the entire internet can experience not just one audience member’s point of view, but two. We hope that you don’t get dizzy and that your mind doesn’t get blown too hard.

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Live: Atlas Sound in Brooklyn (“Shelia” + “Walkabout”)

The last time we saw Bradford Cox, he called us alcoholics because we were housing beers from our bathtub and told us to read our own website. After sobering up, we did just that and it turns out we really love this man’s music. Cox brought his solo Atlas Sound, along with Memory Tapes, to Brooklyn’s Bell House this week for an enchanting set, and in spite of his equipment failing halfway through, he patiently played on like the nice Southern gentleman we always knew he was. So here’s take two of FADER TV with Bradford Cox, playing “Walkabout” and “Shelia” (which, coincidentally, we ruined for him). This time with less talk, more rock.

Itemized: The Jansport Heritage Series Backpack

Every week a different FADER staff member will pick a clothing item or accessory that he or she has lately been spending a lot of time with—or would like to—and write a little love letter to it. We would’ve done a column on who we’re dating but that seemed a little bit much. This week Hanly Banks writes about the Jansport Heritage Series backpack.

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Food Thyme With Rosemary: A Very Wes Anderson Dinner Party

We like Wes Anderson as much as the next film school freshman, but a few select New Yorkers took their admiration to the next level at a catered dinner party inspired  by his filmography.  Flannery Klette-Kolton and Lauren Gerrie are the founders of bigLITTLE Get Together, a company that caters to almost any party occasion, including some based entirely on films, books and things that are totally fictional but so iconic that guests arrive dressed to the nines and ready to eat beef heart (at least in the case of the Silence of the Lambs dinner).  We arrived early—with style assistant Alex Frank filling in for the actual Rosemary who was busy working on a magazine or something—at an immaculate apartment that Anderson himself could have art directed, mingled with the guests who were all incredibly interesting and appropriately-costumed, and proceeded to know every quirky, lovable film we’ve seen in the last 1.5 decades through the art of food.  Which, by the way, was delicious AND endorsed by  Gwyneth Paltrow.

Open Bar With Midnight Masses

Heathers this year, partly filming Open Bar but mostly just hanging out with our friends in what has come to feel like a way classier version of Cheers.  But we couldn’t think of a better way to conclude a solid year of Open Bars than to have Midnight Masses come on down and play for us.  They crowded into the booth in the back and played a few unreleased songs from their upcoming album.  And then they had a few samples from the plethora of boozes behind the bar.

Live: Dr. Dog at Brooklyn Bowl

“They call the show Christmas in July,”  we overheard a guy in the front row say, right before he dropped the OH SHIT NO HE DIDN’T bomb, “Have you heard the Bob Dylan Christmas album?”  Luckily he went on to say it was “hilarious.”  We mention this only because the zealous crowd watching the stage was just as important as the musicians on it, and the video above certainly reflects that dynamic.  The show turned into an all-out singalong, partnered with colorful Christmas decorations and special surprises, including indoor snowfall and a pinata full of cigarettes.  It was almost like witnessing a Christmas miracle…if Santa were drunk, or stoned, or both.

Open Bar With Baaba Maal

Originally from Podor, Senegal, but now a constant resident of global roadways, Baaba Maal is easily the most seasoned musician to have visited us at Heathers. He asked for a cup of tea (which we will have next time) and transformed the bar into den of intensity. Plus, he was wearing a snakeskin blazer. Watch Maal play a spare version of “Tindo Quando,” the closing song on his newest album, Television.

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