Live: Diesel U:Music Miami (Santigold Lives!)

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.”

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NYC: One Step Beyond Featuring DJ/Rupture, Matt Shadetek and Jahdan Blakkamoore, Maluca and Sonido Martines

Not sure about anyone else, but we’re going to be spending this Friday the 13th (the rarest of days) at the Museum of Natural History for the next installment of One Step Beyond. This time featuring FADER mega favorites DJ/Rupture, Matt Shadetek and Jahdan Blakkamoore, Maluca and Sonido Martines. Insert appropriate joke about dancing near the moon here, and then go buy your tickets before they sell out right here.

Slideshow: Photographs From The Levi’s/FADER Fort NYC

Just down the hall from Room 501 at Ace Hotel New York, where this year’s Levi’s®/FADER Fort NYC planted its flag, was the Levi’s fitting suite, where bands came through for several days in a row to get laced with jeans and jackets and Converse in every color and size imaginable. Watch this slideshow of Phillip Angert’s photos from the week while we try to match something to these purple nuthuggers we got.

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NYC: Dam-Funk Comes to the FADER Bowl

Tomorrow, Tuesday October 27th, our cover star, West Coast boogie maven, Dam-Funk comes east to celebrate the release of his impossibly funky new album Toeachizown. We’ve invited him—along with like minded bumpers Snack n Cmish, Duane Harriot and Master Khan and Cubic Zirconia—to inaugurate the first FADER new monthly party at the extraordinary new, massive Brooklyn Bowl. This is both stellar venue perfect for a lot of furious jamming and a real live bowling alley, so make sure to bring both your dancing and your bowling shoes. We’ll be doing both at the same time. While playing air keytar. Come through! No RSVP necessary, just a positive mental attitude (Dam-Funk made us say that).

Live: FADER 64 Issue Release Party

Last week, we decided to have an issue release party smack dab in the middle of CMJ insanity, adding to the whirlwind our beleaguered iCals promised. It felt like the right thing to do, as friends from far and wide across the boroughs and beyond came through to celebrate the birth of our Bon Iver/Dam-Funk issue with a little Budweiser and Budweiser American Ale. Everyone was treated to the excellent selections of the Cool Places Soundsystem, whose laissez-faire DJing made no bones about playing soca, bhangra and folk jams in quick succession. As they dropped Aly-Us’ “Follow Me” to our pleasure, Los Angeles dreamers/F64 Gen F stars Warpaint set up their equipment, and then proceeded to completely shred through jams like “Elephants” and “Beetles.” The crowd watched rapt, entranced by their lovely whorls. The party ended early, and everyone scattered into the night, off to see 452 more bands in three hours. See more pics from the scene after the jump.

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Vashti Bunyan: From Here to Before

How weird has Vashti Bunyan’s life been? She made an album, was more or less forgotten forever and then dudes that have been on our covers like Animal Collective and Devendra Banhart reintroduced the world to her music and reminded us that it was not necessarily terrible to listen to music that sounded like smiling unicorns. In what seems like such a good move we’re surprised no one did it sooner, Vashti Bunyan: From Here to Before documents not only both sections of Bunyan’s career, but also her trip to retrace her steps as she travels from London to Scotland by horse and carriage. That alone is interesting enough for an entire movie, but the film also features cameos from like everyone who ever liked her music as well as existing as a career retrospective for one of the more interesting and confounding musical figures around. Vashti Bunyan: From Here to Before is playing tomorrow and Saturday at 7:30 at 92Y Tribeca.

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Sabo & Cassady, “Kuff Kumbia” MP3 & Que Bajo/Release Party Tonight (NYC)

Hey Nueva York, tonight is not only the latest installment of the contemporary Latin extravaganza that is Que Bajo, it is the release party for Sabo’s new release on venerable Bersa Discos. Concordantly, they’re offering this shimmy of a dancehall-sampling cumbia to get you in the mood, simmering with accordion shuffle and a little cross-the-island patois vibes. Que Bajo gets it in, and tonight they’ve got guest DJs Sabo and Disco Shawn (Bersa Discos) and residents Uproot Andy and Geko Jones, so crank your internal radiator and dress to sweat cause shit is getting tropically basslike tonight. Flyer/info after the jump.



Download: Sabo & Cassady, “Kuff Kumbia”

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NYC: One Step Beyond Featuring Amanda Blank & Devlin & Darko

This Friday, the legendary, ridiculously awesome One Step Beyond series at the Museum of Natural History is back to help you party your way into the Fall. This time around, Amanda Blank, along with awesome dudes/awesome DJs Devlin & Darko will be lighting up the planetarium with jams upon jams upon jams. Get your tickets here before they sell out.

NYC: Usain Bolt @ PUMA Store in Union Square

All you have do to get his autograph is beat him from the periodicals on the third floor to the Gaiam video rack on ground level. (Tip: Scatter some chocolate covered coffee beans at the escalator turn and he’ll go down.)

NYC: MoMA MiXX with Hercules and Love Affair and Mickalene Thomas

Giving a weird turn to the term “celebrity DJ,” MoMA’s new dance series, MoMA MiXX is combining real DJs (in this case, Andrew Butler, mastermind of Hercules and Love Affair, pictured above from FADER 53) with prominent artists, in this case, the stellar Mickalene Thomas, both playing sets of music that has been influential to them. In MoMA’s words: “MoMA MiXX pairs major artists with world-class musicians or DJs. At each dance party, both the DJ and the artist will spin a set of music that has been influential in their lives and work—a “MoMA mix” that will subsequently be available for download on MoMA.org.” For better or worse, this party has tickets available for $75. But it’s a benefit! With an open bar! And disco! This Saturday from eight to midnight.

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