Live: FADER 65 Issue Release Party
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- photo John Francis Peters
We celebrated FADER 65 (guest edited by Animal Collective, did you hear?) at Lower East Side staple Max Fish—with one of their (and our!) old friends, artist/DJ/awesome dude Andrew Kuo, playing a lot of their music, plus a bunch of rap and, delightfully, drum and bass. In between our friends yelling “Jungle Remix!” and jostling our way through the uber-packed bar to responsibly indulge in some Budweiser, we reminisced on the days of yore when AC was just a rad little local band hanging out and drinking some beers. It truly was a meeting of new and old, and though we involuntarily touched about 700 people that night, it was a wonderful and joyous time.
Live: Animal Collective and Fischerspooner at One Step Beyond
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- photo Bryan Derballa
We keep hearing rumors that Michael Stipe was hanging out at The American Museum of Natural History for last Friday’s edition of One Step Beyond featuring Fischerspooner and Animal Collective, but we couldn’t see him. Instead we saw a grip of kids—actually way more than a grip, a super grip—raging to every single song Fischerspooner dropped. Mainly they seemed to focus on textures, offering sublime moments of blissed out dancing as well as equally contemplative bits of waiting in line for a drink/walking down that long spiral path to the planetarium floor like you’re in the castle in Neverending Story 2. Then Geologist hopped behind the decks and proceeded to get the front 15 or so rows of people jumping like crazy. We’re pretty sure he could have played an all drone set and people would’ve still been wilding. But instead he catered to the audience, playing jam after jam until security forced everyone out at 1AM. Check out some more of Bryan Derballa’s excellent photos after the jump.
NYC: One Step Beyond featuring Animal Collective and Fischerspooner
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By now you’re probably aware that the Animal Collective (no links because we know you know where to find them) dudes guest-edited the current issue of The FADER. Obviously, it made sense for us to invite them to the American Museum of Natural History to play records in the planetarium this Friday, January 8th. We wish we could tell you what to expect, but knowing those dudes it could be anything from five-and-a-half hours of unmixed dubstep to an all over the map set of jams we didn’t even know we loved yet. Also: Fischerspooner are DJing as well and that shit is crazy. Wild times in 2010!
NYC: FADER Bowl III with Real Estate and The Babies
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Now that the holidays are over and your liver is getting some much needed R&R, The FADER and Brooklyn Bowl would like to invite you to the third edition of FADER Bowl, tomorrow night, Tuesday, January 5th, with sets by burgeoning Jersey casual rock dudes Real Estate and supergroup-to-us The Babies (members of Woods and Vivian Girls), at a bowling alley with a gigantic bar and pitchers of beer. Sorry, livers! Admission is free, everything else costs money. Check the flyer after the jump, no need to RSVP. And remember: bowl of cereal, shake hands with God. Turkey time every time, suckers.
Kyp Malone, Jonathan Ames and Starlee Kine at Moth at the Met
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On Tuesday night, we headed uptown to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Moth: Art of Storytelling event. It was really good. Maybe the act of drinking on top of Egyptian ruins makes any event better, but it turned into one of cosmic nights where people talked, and other people listened, and through the art of storytelling we actually learned something (though neither Outkast nor Slick Rick were there). Jonathan Ames opened with a story about impregnating his camp nurse (when he [Ames] was 21) and then a few years later visiting his subsequently born son for the first time on Christmas Eve, as a Jew. True story. NPR’s Starlee Kine, of the genius Phil Collins story, told a tale of potential self-help cult abduction in the middle of nowhere. And then Kyp Malone, who we were happy to have had a hand in booking, talked about how both he and his daughter are fairly slow. Not in the retarded way, just in the slow-moving way. And it was good to know his offspring was continuing the family line. What other people see as problematic, he knew, may just be your artistic genes.
NYC: Kevin Powell’s 9th Annual Holiday Clothing and Party Drive
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Kevin Powell’s 9th Annual Holiday Clothing and Party Drive is happening this Friday, December 11th from 10pm-4am at Tribeca Cinemas. Plan on bringing clothing donations and RSVP here.
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posted on Dec 8, 2009 in EVENTS
Live: Small Black & Kurt Vile at Brooklyn Bowl
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Last night after work, we, along with a whole lot of other people, congregated for round two of The FADER’s series at Brooklyn Bowl. Rezound, our DJ for the night, played records to get us excited, then Small Black got everyone moving and ready to bowl a couple games before Kurt Vile hit the stage sans Violators, captivating the audience even above the sound of bowling pins and shouts from wildly competitive alley regulars. Stay tuned to this very site for news on the next installment and check another photo after the jump.
NYC: Kurt Vile and Small Black Come to the FADER Bowl
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Fresh off the Thanksgiving festivities (or whatever you do instead), we’re hosting the second edition of our FADER Bowl series at Brooklyn Bowl next Tuesday, December 1st. This time we’ve brought Philadelphia’s own Kurt Vile to tear it down as well as Brooklyn’s noisy jammers Small Black. All that will be held together by our pal DJ Rezound, spinning records while you bowl and eat and drink. Did we mention this admission is free and no RSVP is necessary? There’s no reason not to come.
The Moth at The Met with Kyp Malone, Jonathan Ames and Starlee Kine
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On Tuesday, December 15, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will celebrate the tradition of The Moth, a non-profit with undeniable dedication to narrative performance, with The Moth at the Met: American Stories. Storytellers will use the portraiture in two current exhibitions, Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans and American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915, as inspiration for ten-minute long first-person narrative pieces. The evening, which starts with a cocktail hour provided by Harpoon Brewery, will be hosted by scribe of HBO’s Bored to Death, novelist Jonathan Ames, with stories by NPR’s Starlee Kine and TV on the Radio and Rain Machine’s Kyp Malone. He’s gonna tell the story of when he met the dude with a gianter beard/hair combo than him. Just kidding that story doesn’t exist! Purchase tickets here.
Live: Diesel U:Music Miami (Santigold Lives!)
- story Felipe Delerme
- photo Serge Alexander
It’s been about two years since we put Santigold on the cover of F51, but since she played Studio B for the issue’s release party she’s been harder to find than someone willing to love us for us, and not just because we can score them tickets to Wild Yaks shows. Sure, Santi put on for her city on Jiggaman’s “Brooklyn (We Go Hard)” and even beefed up Major Lazer’s “Hold The Line” but then the videos for both were just balmy cartoons. This past Tuesday, however, we witnessed Santi in all her leopard print/white short set glory, along with Kid Cudi, Jemina Pearl, DJ Mom Jeans and a brain-scrambling noise dance troupe called the Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt! at Diesel’s U:Music Miami stop. Though both Cudi and Jemina have promising debut albums to their credit, it was Santi (and a pair of lithe dancers) who reminded us how wrong we’ve been to have neglected Santogold in recent months. We also found out that she’s been training to climb Mount Kilimanjaro with Lupe Fiasco and a bunch of other people for charity, and by the time the people were rushing the stage to wild out to Momjeans closing out on the wheels, we were swooning again just like the first time we heard “Creator.”
