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When it comes to justifications for jocking DJ Harvey, where do we start? His legendary mixes and club residencies since he was an Acid House young'n? The lysergic boogie he creates today as one half of Map Of Africa? The fact that dude named his vinyl-only edits label Black Cock?!?! All are perfectly valid, but only goofballs (and lazy journalists—we see you!) talk up DJs for their resumes. We've been fortunate enough to enjoy Harvey on the decks a couple of times, and each night was chock full of disco surprises—so history aside, we recommend him because he's fun NOW. Check the capo di tutti capi of space bump play the latest edition of his Sarcastic Disco party on May 10th in Los Angeles, venue to be announced once it gets closer to the weekend, keep hitting refresh or call the mysterious number on the flyer.

DJ Mr Singh has been throwing parties at Django's in Atlanta for a hot minute now, helping import Washington DC go-go music to the A by pairing the likes of Killer Mike and Sleepy Brown with live go-go bands. We even sponsored one. Y'know, because we are regional pop culture fetishists. And LOVERS OF MUSIC. This Friday (5/9), Singh continues his hot streak of pairing FADER faves with cranking live percussion by inviting the unbreakable DG Yola to take the stage backed by the XO Band. How ill is their congo-ed out version of "Ain't Gon Let Up" from the rehearsal sesh?!? Flyer after the jump. more...

Today two things became clear: 1. James Murphy and Pat Mahoney, members of LCD Soundsystem and duo behind an epic Fabric mix are starting a regular DJ night in New York City called Special Disco Version and are starting by Euro-tripping it (dates after the jump) and 2. The party's NYC base is going to be at a new club called 100 Lafayette, which means that Andrew WK's venture is no longer called Santa's Party House, but 100 Lafayette. Total bummer. more...

We know that Summer is coming because shows are happening and we want to go to them because it's not two degrees outside. While next week is ultra crazy (stay tuned to thefader.com to see why), there is plenty to get you going this weekend in preparation. Tonight in the middle of nowhere (but that shouldn't stop you) is Abe Vigoda and Woods along with Vivian Girls at The Silent Barn. Perpetual FADER favorites Hypnotic Brass Band are playing at Joe's Pub on Sunday which will be a nice change of pace from their usual spot on the Union Square subway platform. Also this weekend, our guilty pleasures The Teenagers are playing nine million shows including Saturday (Music Hall of Williamsburg), and Sunday at AN AMERICAN APPAREL. Way to just go for it dudes! Okay so maybe that's only two, but Erol Alkan will also be jamming at Studio B on Sunday. Also though dudes check this out: Cakeshop is celebrating their three year anniversary with Barghest, Virgin Forest, Jana Hunter, White Hinterland, Woods, Air Waves, Land of Tomorrow, Pepi Ginsberg, Soft Black, Matt Gangi, The Electric Tickle Machine, Freddie and The Jasons, Moonmen On The Moon, Man, Holy Hail, Special Guests, Oakley Hall, caUSE co-MOTION!, Soiled Matress and the Springs, Vivian Girls, New Bloods, Crystal Stilts, Famous Amos (ex-Tralala) and Astrid Pierce. That is on Saturday and we don't know who most of those bands are—but the ones we do know, we like. It's also only three dollars.

Coming at you a little late, we've got the recap from the final day of our FADER/Boosted pool party (thanks again to Heineken, Belvedere, Black Swan and Saké2me). Featuring Staccato, Guns & Bombs, Dan Oh, Gaslamp Killer and Devlin & Darko, we went out in style, enjoying the last of the intense heatwaves and hitting the pool along with all the other party attendants. Hit the jump to check out a couple more pictures. more...

New Yorkers we have some bad news for you, you're going to have to make some hard decisions tonight because there are some serious shows happening. First of all there is Feist at the Hammerstein Ballroom. Feist does not currently have a new album out, but everyone in the world has a crush on her so you should go. What Feist does have though, is a duet with the Constantines covering the Bee Gees by way of Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers' "Islands in the Stream." You can listen to that here. Alternately, if you want to get a little weird you can hit up Southpaw and catch Gang Gang Dance and High Places, two bands that probably should put out another record but have yet to do so. If that doesn't float your boat you can catch Santogold at the Virgin Megastore in Union Square for FREE in like an hour and a half. Free! It kinda snuck up on us, but Santi's new album comes out today and it is jamming. We've seen her perform a whole bunch in the last couple months and it is consistently great, everyone should go. ALSO: We mentioned The Verve the other day because their performance at Coachella was pretty stunning and loud, and if you couldn't make it out to the hot desert in the middle of nowhere you can catch The Verve at The WaMu theater at Madison Square Garden in an area that probably has air conditioning but will still be really hot.

By now we already feel like festival warriors, and no matter how many showers we take we still have festival dirt caking our bodies, but we soldiered on in anticipation of Prince as well as the kajillion other great bands that were playing (and unfortunately scheduled at the same time as each other. Shouts to MIA and Dwight Yoakam, who we missed but were probably great.) Check out our rundown of day two after the jump, and keep an eye out for the final day later on. more...

Whooaaaaa dudddessss! It is like 101 degrees out, and we're pretty much in heatstroke city right now. Lucky for us, day 3 of the FADER/Boosted pool party (thanks to Heineken, Belvedere, Black Swan and saké2me) featured some of our favorite DJs including XXXchange killing it as usual (and playing Can!), Flosstradamus playing the most necessary set of '90s pool party jams, LA Riots' electro heavy set and FADER homie Nick Catchdubs busting out like every rap song we forgot we loved. Chek out a couple more pictures after the jump, and then come back later on for coverage from day two of Coachella. more...

Coachella is pretty much the same as last year. It's really hot and really awesome and we are already sunburned but totally don't care. Click the jump to check out our coverage from day one, and keep checking back for days two and three over the weekend. more...

So it turns out that rumors of poolside carne asada tacos were absolutely true. While we were going back for seconds and thirds, lounging in the pool and trying sparkling saké called saké2me (verdict: very summery) our DFA pals Holy Ghost! and Justin Miller along with Treasure Fingers and Boom Bip kicked out some disco jams for us to enjoy the sun to. Excuse us while we hit the pool again and maybe grab a cooler of Heinekens and some Belvedere—but check back later in the day for coverage from Coachella's opening day, and check out some photos from the FADER/Boosted Pool Party after the jump. more...

Last night we rolled up to the FADER/Boosted Pool Party at the Mod Resort in the middle of the desert, grabbed some Belvedere and Heinekens and dipped into the pool while enjoying the sweet sounds of LA's Posso the Spat, which is also connected to some crazy shoe. Being the first night, it was a low key affair but we hear rumors of freshly grilled carne asada and our mini fridges are full of beer and it is like 100 degrees so we would say life is pretty good. Check for a couple pictures after the jump and check back tomorrow for more coverage from the pool parties and also from Coachella itself. more...

It's supposed to rain in New York on Sunday so we're going to fly out to LA for some sun and good times because we ball like that. We're just gonna to go to this Ooga Party and fly back. And pay for the whole thing with dried up chewing gum.

From the Ooga Booga blog (Ooga Blogga?):

Please join us this Sunday evening 6-8pm for the launch of Oliver Payne's new zine, Safe Crackers!!!! This will be the debut of issues 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, and each issue is narrowly focused on topics such as The Wire, Hot Chip, Wolfboy, Growing, and Rei Kawakubo! We will also unveil the newest window installation by Joe Denardo of Growing, along with DJ tunes by Hot Chip! Free and everyone welcome always!

You know what's awesome? Seeing Abe Vigoda play on a half pipe in the middle of a warehouse in the conveniently named Warehouse District in LA. Equally awesome is that we were drinking complimentary Bass Ale the whole time and wandering around from the floor to the back yard (shout to the bonfire at the warehouse next door). Also, they were grilled cheese sandwiches and the now infamous-in-some-circles Cali Dewitt and Jenna Thornhill of Mika Miko manning the turntables and playing us some epic jams. Check out a few photos of the event after the jump. more...

Time to put on your yellow pants like that dude (or maybe you are that dude) and take the one train uptown to Barnard and sit on the grass for (what have decided is) Inaugural Warm Weather Show #1 aka the 15th Annual WBAR-B-Q with Japanther headlining. It's free and outside and it starts at noon. We're pretty sure our old intern had something to do with this. We see you Jamie Johns. Full line up after the jump... more...

Tonight at 6pm the documentary Captured, about photographer Clayton Patterson and the LES neighborhood, will be showing at NYU's Cantor Film Center. Patterson has seen things we'd never want to see, experienced the Lower East Side in ways most of us will never know, and interfered with people we'd never want to mess with, but he also manages to capture a truly insane New York from junkies to drag queens, hipsters to the homeless. The documentary focuses on the deterioration of Patterson's neighborhood, where he once found a story in every corner, to its contemporary homogenized state.

THAT'S RIGHT!!! JUNE 1ST!! SUMMER JAM!!! NEW YORK CITY!!! Sorry, that's how they announced it on the radio just now. We are going to be at this in our ding slings NO DOUBT. Here it is:

T-Pain (plus special guests), Ray-J & Yung Berg (holler Shep), Rihanna, D-Block (holler Nick), Public Enemy, Lil Wayne (holler Gym Class Heroes), Kanye.

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No contemporary artist can really compete with the epic genius of Henry Darger, a man who spent much of his life writing a 12 volume 15,000 page opus entitled The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion. It's pretty much impossible to capture or decode Darger's compulsive art-making process, but The American Folk Art Museum is paying homage to Darger with their new exhibit Dargerism: Contemporary Artists And Henry Darger. 11 "insider artists" are displaying works inspired by Darger alongside some of his original masterpieces. We'd rather watch In the Realms of the Unreal again, but whatever, Dargerism—it's a movement!

Trust us, when we put Johannesburg's BLK JKS on the cover of our Africa Issue, we had no idea we'd be seeing them more frequently than our parents this year. From New York to Texas and back to New York, the dudes have been grinding hard and meeting half of America in the meantime. We managed to wrangle them for an episode of Open Bar, our new series filmed at Heathers in the East Village. They jammed out an acoustic version of "Molalatladi" and then disappeared to do something presumably cool because that's all they do. Tomorrow night though, 11:30 at Joe's Pub, they will be playing their last show before heading back home, so come out and say goodbye (for now) and prep for the release of their new Mystery EP recorded at Electric Ladyland while you were sleeping.

The most handsome DJ couple in the world, Lindsey and Myles, just sent over this new hour-long mix as a present to all their Hump supporters. They went half on it with Myles doing the first 30 minutes and Lindsey the second. Like a baby! Or something. Myles laces (yes, laces) his part with nothing but lazy days summer jams, while Lindsey goes heavy into Nellie Hooperville (or is it Jazzie B&B?), our favorite '90s sub-genre at the moment, before some major new jack city shit. In other words, now music. And it's finally warm enough in New York to put on some short shorts and go to their party at the Blue Owl tonight and not catch wreck off pneumonia. So do that.

Download: DJ Lindsey & DJ Myles' The Hump Vol. 1