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New York Fashion Week: Backstage at Shades of Grey
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 »
FADER Label: Yuna Live in Brooklyn
Yuna played to an intimate but rapt audience last night in Brooklyn at Coverse Rubber Tracks. Pharrell made a brief guest appearance, jumping on stage to introduce her to the audience, but it was Yuna’s … read more »
New York Fashion Week: Backstage at Hyden Yoo
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 »
Gorillaz Announce Collaboration with James Murphy and Andre 3000
Damon Albarn, James Murphy and Andre 3000 will release a collaborative track, called “Do Ya Thing,” on February 23rd. The release is the latest in Converse’s Three Artists One Song series, previously featuring artists like … read more »
Two Lovers: Rachel Roy and Hyden Yoo
Preview: This story will appear in FADER #78, on stands soon. Congratulations to Hyden Yoo and Rachel Roy, who debut their brand new collections today and tomorrow at New York Fashion Week. Rachel Roy and … read more »
The Let Out: Unseasonable Warmth Part 2
Last week we promised that we’d play really depressing songs from the Schoolboy Q album in celebration of how it was warm outside. We definitely did that, and now we’re in the weird position where … read more »
By The Numbers: Air’s Le Voyage Dans La Lune
In By The Numbers, FADER looks at a big record release and breaks it down in basic digits and primary colors. This week, we look at Air’s LP Le Voyage Dans La Lune, which they … read more »
J Dilla: Shine On
In this 2006 feature from FADER #42, collaborators and family tell the stories behind some of the late J Dilla’s great productions. Think twice, youngbloods, precocious hoodrats, beatbox prodigies. Somewhere in the fine print of … read more »
Video: M.I.A. Flips Middle Finger to People Watching the Super Bowl
Among the 9,000 bizarrely compelling things that happened during Madonna’s Super Bowl halftime show (slacklining underpants guy, Cee-Lo’s scene stealing, “WORLD PEACE”), M.I.A. flipped the bird on national television. Following the incident, both the NFL … read more »
Big Boi: General Patton’s Prayer
With the golden era of the Dungeon Family gone, Big Boi’s riding on with his new label Purple Ribbon. But is there a lane for a second generation of Atlanta’s “weirdo type funk shit?” I … read more »
