Slideshow: Photographs From The Levi’s/FADER Fort

Just down the hall from Room 501 at the Ace Hotel, where this year’s Levi’s®/FADER Fort NYC planted its flag, was the Levi’s fitting suite, where bands came through for several days in a row to get laced with jeans and jackets and Converse in every color and size imaginable. Watch this slideshow of Phillip Angert’s photos from the week while we try to match something to these purple nuthuggers we got.

The Let Out: Carl

This week on the Let Out, The FADER’s weekly East Village Radio show, Carl Bennett the ultimate man of mystery/guy who had a weird show on Vice TV called Hot Dogs and knows a lot about music will be coming through to play records, hang out and drop knowledge jewels left and right. Listen live to the Let Out this and every Friday from 6-8 pm on East Village Radio, but specifically listen to this one.

Open Bar With Wildbirds & Peacedrums

It wasn’t so long ago that the weather was mild and birds were chirping and we were able to prop open the door at Heathers Bar for every East Village resident to peep in and witness the goodness that is Open Bar.  During the last days of that warm window, Wildbirds & Peacedrums stopped in during their short trip over from Sweden.  They were toting a foreign instrument called a “Guzheng” (or “thumb piano” for the less-learned) that had purty colors on it.  Resident bartender/filmmaker extraordinaire Amy Von Harrington guested on the camera work.  Enjoy this video, kids, because we’re officially shutting the door today and turning on the radiator.

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Bradford Cox Hates Us

We love Bradford Cox. As the FADER staff looks back at the music of their collective early 20s to mid 30s, the music he’s made with Deerhunter and solo, as Atlas Sound, will inevitably stick out as a glaring touchstone. He is Bo Jackson if Bo Jackson also was Carl Lewis and Michael Jordan, plus Rahm Emanuel and Quincy Jones. He is a diversely eloquent prolific wizard from Georgia, writing soft pop of infinite angles all day and night. So we were happy to be able to sit with Cox for a bit during CMJ, bring him to Room 501 at the Ace Hotel. Unfortunately, we did not vibe. We are not bros, he does not like us. You had a nice shirt and a good handshake and, god, how many times we’ve listened to Microcastle! Forgive us, Bradford!

Midnight Juggernauts Live at The Levi’s FADER Fort NYC

There have been about a million remixes of Midnight Juggernauts‘ “This New Technology,” but we’re not going to weigh you down with yet another version today.  Here’s the real deal, performed live at last weekend’s all-day sauna at The Levi’s®/FADER Fort.  Heat didn’t even phase the Juggernauts—probably because they’re from Australia or outer space or some place that’s hot all of the time [Ed. Australia].

Nerd Boyfriend is Our Main Squeeze

  • story Siri Thorson

Everyone knows that nerds make the best companions. They’re shy, sensitive, and they can show you how to download a ton of free games for your DS. Sadly, the misconception that nerds don’t know how to dress themselves (without mom’s help) still seems to linger in the cultural subconscious. If ever you needed proof that fashion and nerdiness can—and do—walk hand in hand, then take a look at Nerd Boyfriend. Featuring a regularly updated, impeccably curated selection of vintage photographs of everyone’s favorite fashionable nerds, from Art Garfunkel to Robert Crumb to Tennessee Williams, the site offers up a shopping guide for how to capture each look for yourself or your significantly nerdy other. Seriously helpful styling tips whether you are a nerd boyfriend, have a nerd boyfriend, or just wish you did.

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Jenny Wilson A Capella at The Levi’s/FADER Fort

After her spectacular performance at the Levi’s®/FADER Fort, we brought Swedish queen Jenny Wilson and crew upstairs to record an a capella version of “Like a Fading Rainbow” while they sat on the bed in Room 501. And then laid on it. For all of the original’s tiny clamor, they got pretty close to the details that make it move. If you ever get a chance to have this lady sing for you, do it.

Restless People Live at The Levi’s/FADER Fort NYC

Restless People played first at The Levi’s®/FADER Fort last week, but we were already perspiring as though we were in hour seven of Carnival as augmented by a few too many Trini rum punches. Fortunately, Restless People were prepped for the heat with their punky art dudes’ take on the jubilant rhythms of soca and got the early-afternoon crowd loose for an unstoppable basement dance party, windowless and impervious to the passage of time. By the end of their set, the mantra for the happy day was, ineffably, “HAAAY, RESTLESS PEEEEOOPLE!”

The Smith Westerns at The Levi’s/FADER Fort NYC

Fresh-faced youngsters, The Smith Westerns, stopped by The Levi’s®/FADER Fort during last week’s CMJ festivities.  They sat on the beds in Room 501 and strummed out the would-be 1970’s teen movie theme, “Girl In Love.”  Except that instead of backing it up with the heavy, Jock Jams percussion from the album, they substituted wistful hand claps. 

VEGA Live at The Levi’s/FADER Fort NYC

Alan Palomo and friends killed it on the synths at last Saturday’s Levi’s®/FADER Fort, playing as his “other” band – VEGA, since Neon Indian was not available.  Their super-dancey “No Reasons” left no able-bodied person standing still on the dancefloor.   We kind of wanted to dance too, but we had to hold cameras and shit.  Fun Friday fact: in addition to being a cool band, Vega is also the brightest star in the constellation Lyra, the fifth brightest star in the night sky and the second brightest star in the northern celestial hemisphere, after Arcturus!

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