Welcome To An All New TheFADER.com!
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Hello, old readers and new, and welcome to our brand new website. After many laborious months, we are ready to make The FADER’s most ambitious online presence ever more than a pencil sketch on the office wall. As you wander around, you’ll notice some things that are familiar and some that are new additions. Completely custom designed by FADER Editorial Director Peter Macia and FADER Creative Director Phil Bicker, and made real by our in-house webmasters, the new site features the fancy new homepage you just came from; new pages for Music, Style and Arts + Culture coverage; a new FADER bloggers and columnists section; a new Events section with flyers and listings for FADER and FADER-approved shows and parties; a new standalone site for FADER TV; and in the Magazine section we’ll be posting new and archival stories from our print edition weekly. It all makes perfect sense to us, so hopefully it does to you too. Tell us what you think in the comments and social networking tools that are now present on TheFADER.com for the first time, allowing all of you to leave your (hopefully) respectful and dignified feedback. And always feel free to hit us up with suggestions, tips and whatever newness you’d like to see here at info@thefader.com.
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Miami: Michael Genovese at O.H.W.O.W.
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We first saw Michael Genovese’s work at his Jack the Pelican show Just Because It’s Legal Doesn’t Make It Right, hand-painted signs and meticulous multilingual engravings. We asked him to make a 7-inch record cover for us after that and he decided to paint a wall. Looks like he has moved on from wall painting to totally fucking burning shit. His solo show, It’s Not the Heat, It’s the Humility (zing!) opens tonight tonight at O.H.W.O.W. and, Floridians, we seriously recommend you go.
- posted in ART+CULTURE, ART+CULTURE NEWS, EVENTS, OTHER
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LA: RJ Shaughnessy’s Your Golden Opportunity Is Comeing Soon Book Party With Abe Vigoda
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Lost Angels, if you’re reading this we’re thinking there is not a bad chance FADER contributor RJ Shaughnessy took your picture at some point. Or at least that’s how it seems on the East Coast, especially with his first book, Deathcamp. Though that was more a collection of photos in and around the house he lived in, it made LA seem like a weird universe frat party where the only people attending were really cool or super fucked up on drugs. Or maybe you modeled for that Steven Alan/Urban Outfitters collabo lookbook he did. Whichever. His new book, Your Golden Opportunity Is Comeing Very Soon features the black and white landscaped version of the fucked up people, scraped fences and dented signposts, some sad emoticon shit. Golden Opportunity is out now and he’s having a party tonight at Family with Abe Vigoda playing to celebrate. Check the full flyer after the jump.
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- tags Abe Vigoda, RJ Shaughnessy, rock
Philadelphia: FADER Presents Soundcheck with Paul Devro
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No your eyes do not deceive you, Mad Decent man about Canada/LA/India and Philadelphia Paul Devro is back and ready to DJ the latest installment of our epic and over the top Soundcheck parties. If you’re equally as worldly, you may have caught him when he DJ’d one of these things last month in LA. If you didn’t, now is your chance. Plus you get to go to a place called Kung Fu Necktie. RSVP here and get more info on the B-Live tour here, because why wouldn’t you want free drinks and awesome music?
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- tags Bacardi B-Live, FADER, Paul Devro, Soundcheck
NYC: Theo Mercier Opening Show
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The fantastical French artist Theo Mercier is opening “Oil Now” at the Envoy Gallery in NYC tonight, and it looks to be a feat of awesome surrealism: crazily pasted photos, painted-on collages, and installation works made with stuff he found at flea markets and on the street. Mercier has worked with forward-thinking designer Bernard Wilhelm and Matthew Barney, who we’re assuming you’ve heard of. Go read this interview with Mercier on his friend Diane Pernet’s site, where you can also see his pretty epic collage of a seagull landing on a giant hamburger while a wave crashes behind it.
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- tags Bernard Wilhelm, Diane Pernet, Matthew Barney, NYC, Theo Mercier
FADER Fam Dorothy Hong’s First Ever Solo Photo Exhibition
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Photographer Dorothy Hong has always been part of the family here, so watching her go from FADER intern to FADER photo coordinator to full blown PDN recognized photo starlet always makes us feel all warm and fuzzy. Introductions, her first ever solo show, opens at the Vision Quest Contemporary Photography Gallery in Genova, Italy this week. As Dorothy tells it, the exhibit touches on introductions on all levels—first meetings from viewer to subject, subject to documenter, documenter to viewer. All the images are of people she’s met for the first time (some of which have been printed in the pages of this very magazine), and the art world is also an awesome new playing field for her too. The exhibit, which runs through August 1, marks the one year anniversary of an Italian group show that Dorothy took part in last summer. Obviously, the Italians are just as smitten with her as we are. See a few more images from the show after the jump.
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Contest: Win Tickets to This Friday’s Edition of One Step Beyond
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The next installment of One Step Beyond is this Friday, June 5th and we’re going to unofficially call it an Awesome Summer Kick Off Party at the Museum of Natural History. Where else can you catch Moby, Holy Ghost!, Martin Moscrop and the Activaire DJs all in one room, look at fake stars and see how much you weigh on mars? Nowhere, that’s where. If you want to go and have some extra money, buy tickets here. But if you want to go and are strapped for cash, we’ve got a couple tickets to give away if you email us at contests@thefader.com with your full name and OSB in the subject line.
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- tags FADER, Holy Ghost!, Moby, OSB
NYC: Soft Circle, Glasser and Awesome Tapes From Africa
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Hello New York City, a bunch of our homies are going hard this weekend. Brian who does Awesome Tapes From Africa will be playing music like the Sunny Ade cassette above, alongside DJs from Escort and a performance from Teengirl Fantasy, who are generally confusing if not fairly colorful. This is happening in Tribeca at 92Y. Also tonight, in Brooklyn, the current beloved FADER office star, Glasser, has made her way east and is at Williamsburg’s Zebulon. And on Sunday you can go to Glasslands to see Soft Circle with Justin Miller and famous internet blogger Lovefingers DJing. Check the full flyer for that after the jump. You are going to have to figure out what to do on Saturday, we got nothing.
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- tags Awesome Tapes From Africa, Glasser, Justin Miller, Soft Circle
St. Louis: FADER Presents Soundcheck with Ghetto Division
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If you’re still recovering from a wild Memorial Day weekend like we
are, at the moment you just want to stay home and nurse yourself back
to health. But hey, if you’re not ready to go again by Friday the
29th’s Soundcheck party, you really should’ve said “nah, I’m good”
when your best friend pulled another bottle out of the fridge. Get
ready for wreckage with another raucous DJ set from Soundcheck vets Ghetto Division. And unless you live a few blocks from the Parkside lounge in St.
Louis, where Bacardi is continuing the B-Live tour, make sure you get a sober friend to drive you back home.
Click
here to RSVP for the event.
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- tags FADER, Ghetto Division, Soundcheck, St Louis
Chicago: FADER Presents Soundcheck with Ghetto Division
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Because we’ve always subscribed to the theory that best way to recover from a long weekend of hard partying is with a long weeknight of harder partying, this Wednesday May 27th, we’ll be previewing the impending Bacardi B-Live tour with another stop in our SOUNDCHECK series. If your in Chicago, polish up those ‘gators (because obviously you own ‘gators) and get over to The Evil Olive to witness the dance dance revolution that is Ghetto Division. Click here to RSVP.
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- tags Bacardi B-Live, FADER, Ghetto Division, Soundcheck