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No Concessions: Terry Crews on Arrested Development, Hollywood and Pumping Iron
You can count on one hand the number of NFL players who successfully traded touchdowns for Tinsel Town—OJ Simpson comes to mind, as does Carl Weathers and Jim Brown. In the last decade Terry Crews, … read more »
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Dollars to Pounds: Illum Sphere and Hoya:Hoya
Selim Bulut is a music writer who lives in Manchester. He has the most meticulously organized iTunes folder in the land. He’ll be writing about some of the excellent music coming out of the UK … read more »
No Concessions: The Project and the Conservative Film Industrial Complex
Have you ever tasted ketchup that’s gone bad? I hadn’t, until a couple weeks ago. Ketchup ferments, and although the effect isn’t necessarily bad—if anything it’s sweeter—there’s an undeniable sensation of something not right, of … read more »
Lungu Lungu: Bamboo’s Timeless Swahili Bridge
I can never get enough Congolese guitar. I’m so addicted to it that I hunt it down wherever possible, even if it lives outside of the Congolese rumba world. If you read through past posts, … read more »
No Concessions: Olivier Assayas and the Art of Teenagehood
It’s no simple feat pegging down Olivier Assayas because the French director works between genres, and rarely makes the same sort of film twice. Look at his oeuvre of the last decade: 2004’s Clean, in … read more »
Dollars to Pounds: Bayou
Selim Bulut is a music writer who lives in Manchester. He has the most meticulously organized iTunes folder in the land. He’ll be writing about some of the excellent music coming out of the UK … read more »
Freak Scene: The Mint Chicks and Finding Beauty in Bad Recordings
According to iTunes, since last Tuesday, I have listened to The Mint Chicks‘ “Stolen Hill” 89 times. It’s probably more though. I listened to it while commuting a bunch, and rewound it to focus on … read more »
No Concessions: Four Micro-Interviews from the Tribeca Film Festival
The organizers of the 13th annual Tribeca Film Festival couldn’t have foreseen the gruesome headlines of the last two weeks: marathon bombings and city lockdowns, fertilizer explosions, barges on fire, poisoned letters, and not one, … read more »
Lungu Lungu: Ghana’s Flowing Beauty
I was asked recently to identify artists with a strong social or political message, in about a dozen specific African countries, Ghana excluded. I found it very difficult, and eventually wished I had to find … read more »
By the Numbers: Snoop Lion’s Reincarnated
In By the Numbers, FADER looks at a big record release and breaks it down in basic digits. This week, we tackle Snoop Lion’s new album/film/app Reincarnated, out now.
