Slideshow: Photographs From The Levi’s/FADER Fort NYC
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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.
NYC: Dam-Funk Comes to the FADER Bowl
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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).
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posted on Oct 26, 2009 in EVENTS, FADER, MUSIC, MUSIC NEWS tags Brooklyn Bowl, Cubic Zirconia, Dam-Funk, Duane Harriot, Master Khan, Snack n Cmish
Live: FADER 64 Issue Release Party
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- photo John Francis Peters
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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posted on Oct 26, 2009 in FADER, MUSIC NEWS tags caribbean, Cool Places Soundsystem, FADER 64, rock, Warpaint
NYC: Win Tickets to See The XX at Monkeytown
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Young darlings The XX are over from England for a few shows in New York to preview their upcoming album. A few of these shows have sold out, so they’ve added a small show at Brooklyn’s Monkeytown, which FADER is lucky enough to be presenting. We have two pairs of tickets to give away—send us a note to contests@thefader.com with your name and we’ll holler at two of you Monday morning.
Total Freedom & Nguzunguzu, “Wildness (Club Vortex Mixtape)”
Club Vortex is a monthly held at Glasslands in NY where all manner of outré/vanguard worldwide dance musics are played, and prior to each episode the guest DJs make a mixtape. The next installment is Kingdom’s b-day, FADER fave Maluca is performing live (always a rad time) and guest DJs Total Freedom and Nguzunguzu from Los Angeles are bringing the vibe of their Wilderness party to the Brooklyn warehouse setting, which according to this mixtape may include the Keri Hilson vox from “Swag On” over some kind of organic sounding triple-syncopated kinda-ragga rhythms, a possible Bollywood track blended with maybe the song from the “Natasha!” scene in Party Girl, Nicki Minaj “Go Hard” with a total BK-style drumline backing track, and copious drops filtered through a witness-protection-program vocal converter. This is all speculation, not actual scientific tracklistage, but the tape is hot and when you go to the party this Friday, July 10th (details here), you will not be hearing anything boring, played, wack or 100% identifiable. Happy B-day Kingdom!
Download: Total Freedom & Nguzu Nguzu, Wildness (Club Vortex Mixtape)
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posted on Jul 6, 2009 in FADER, MP3 / STREAMS tags club vortex, dance/electronic, Keri Hilson, Kingdom, Maluca, mixtape, Nguzunguzu, Nicki Minaj, Total Freedom
Girls, “Solitude” MP3
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Most of Girls’ songs warble with the same somberness of Blue Hawaii (and don’t think we didn’t notice singer Chris Owens “Presley” bracelet), and “Solitude,” now available for download from their UK label, Turnstile, upcoming b-side to the epic “Hellhole Ratrace,” lumbers along just as thick with real sap. Despite it’s title, this is a love song not to solitude but to possibility. Maybe I’ll settle down with you, which is somewhere reassuring, especially when it cherry-tops a song that has him sleeping in my clothes next to the BART. If you are sleeping at the station after you missed the last train back from Oakland instead of going home with whoever she is, you are keeping your options open.
Download: Girls, “Solitude”
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. Special thanks to the folks at Wordpress who are powering our new site.
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?
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.
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.
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here to RSVP for the event.
