NEWEST GEN F
GEN F: Nautic
Listening to London trio Nautic is kind of like filling up on dim sum: there’s a lot of small components to consider, and it can feel like an embarrassment of variety. “Fresh Eyes,” one of … read more »
GEN F: Rich Kidz
Last year, Atlanta rap duo Rich Kidz released a mixtape called Everybody Eat Bread. Besides having one of the most inclusive, we-can-all-shine titles in recent memory, it felt like the apex of their hyperactive positivity, … read more »
GEN F: Shy Glizzy
The real-life Shy Glizzy is calmer than you’d expect from his videos. The 20-year-old rapper from southeast DC is a restless ball of aggression on YouTube, his scrappy sideburns spilling out of crudely fashioned headwraps … read more »
GEN F: Gary Clark Jr.
This past December, Gary Clark Jr. performed with the Rolling Stones two Saturdays in a row. In a video of the first cameo, at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, you see him emerge, natty in a knit … read more »
GEN F: Laura Mvula
As a student in composition, British singer Laura Mvula found herself dissatisfied with the ugly dissonance of the modern classical canon. A lover of beautiful sounds, she found nothing to admire in a lack of … read more »
GEN F: Iamsu!
Iamsu! is a 23-year-old rapper and producer from Richmond, CA, a city northeast of San Francisco known for its high crime rate and Green Party mayor. His moniker is a search engine-optimized take on his … read more »
GEN F: Fear of Men
Fear of Men’s Early Fragments LP comes out next week via Kanine Records. Read the band’s GEN F profile from FADER #84, then stream the whole album below. Two years after moving to Brighton and … read more »
GEN F: GrandeMarshall
When I meet GrandeMarshall on the streets of Midtown Manhattan after the release of his debut mixtape, 800, he’s noticeably lost—a Philly kid in the big city, pumping himself up for his first big day … read more »
GEN F: Disclosure
As you might expect from the sons of professional musicians, Guy and Howard Lawrence had each picked up an instrument by the age of four: drums for the elder Guy, bass for Howard. Without knowing … read more »
GEN F: Tim Vocals
Weed Al Yankovic. That’s what I started calling Tim Vocals in my mind about halfway through his opening set for Chief Keef’s New York debut at SOB’s this past June. While onstage, Vocals sang about … read more »
