Issue 62
FEATURES
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PHOENIX Inseparable
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MAD DECENT Radio Killers
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YOUNG DRO Wild Horses
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SOCAL High Five
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HEAT
GEN F
- Jenny Wilson
- Esser
- Foreign Born
- D-Lo & Sleepy D
- CFCF
- Omega
GREENPAGES
- VINYL ARCHEOLOGY
- The Editors: The Gentle Craft of Bringing Soft Rock to the Dance Floor
- Reheaters
- Bill Graham and the Closing of the Fillmore
Whether it’s due to an astrological shift, under-stimulation or
seasonal mood disorder, many folks around these parts have
decided recently that the summer of 2009 needs to be the
“Summer of Love.” They have put the phrase on party fliers
and birthday invitations, and some of you may have received
an email from a FADER staffer with “Summer of Love ’09” in
the subject line or signature. This was probably a business
email and you probably thought it was weird, so sorry, we’re
on a mission. But don’t get all excited thinking it’s going to
be hook-up HQ on the 13th floor—we are talking platonically.
So much heaviness has happened in the last year that we’ve
decided to spend the entire solstice soaking up as much love
from friends and family as possible, grilling wieners (real and
vegan) and watching sunsets. In light of that, we’ve chosen
to focus this issue on people who are making it happen by
sticking together. On one cover we have the united French
front of Phoenix, whose new album, Wolfgang Amadeus
Phoenix, was crafted in the same basement where they
jammed as teenagers many moons ago. If you do not find
yourself jumping for joy while playing it in the coming months,
you are probably an insufferable robot.
On the flip side, we collaged Diplo, Switch, Popo, Sega and
Maluca, bka Major Lazer and the Mad Decent new vanguard,
because they are the scrappiest family we have seen in a long
time and are about to roll through your party with the most
functionally dysfunctional mess of Latin spunk, domineering
riddims, jerky bro thrash and hyperactive bass the world has
ever known. We also sent the inscrutable Dee Dee of Dum Dum
Girls on a California road trip to hang with her buds Crocodiles,
Wavves and Family Time Records and went down to Atlanta to
see how Young Dro plans to support Grand Hustle and the swag
movement. Not to mention, there are three Coppolas directly
or indirectly involved with this issue, and Jason Schwartzman
supposedly really wants one of our Panda Bear hats. Someone
call Talia Shire and Nick Cage. We’re having a picnic up in here!
PETER MACIA
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