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According to Baltimore's Get 'Em Mamis, "They Jockin,'" the Darkroom Productions produced track they laid for the seventh edition of our FADER/Southern Comfort 7-inch series, will get the elderly "doing the Yung Joc in their wheelchairs," and our guess is that it might also spark use of the ridiculous superlative "terrawesome" ("somewhere between terrific and awesome"). Over on the record's A-side, the whole Hood Headlinaz crew (Mata, Mali Boi, Dawgy Baggz, Jhi Ali and Gunt, as well as Wu-affiliate guest Rubbabandz) got together for their track "Tip Down." When we asked Paper Route Recordz CEO Dawgy Baggz to explain "tipping down" to us northerners, because we though it had something to do with cars (thanks for nothing, urbandictionary.com), he said it means simply "going bananas." Fair enough. And to wrap up this little present from us to you, artist Michael Genovese threw down some "tienda style lettering with a local Baptist church influence" on a wall in the Chicago Cultural Center and gave the two groups a little free advertising for the record's cover. E-mail contests@thefader.com with your name and address for a copy until we run out.

The 6th edition of the highly-coveted, always banging FADER/Southern Comfort 7" Series is now in the office, and maybe it's the smog, but we are tripping heavily on both the cover and songs within. For this one we got our dudes BLK JKS to tear up "Umbzabalazo", given the Super Freq mix by Greg Mann, and Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit sent us a snazzy version of the epic "Chilombo." Not to be outdone, quiltmaker extraordinaire Ian Hundley sent us a gigantic pattern which we then shrunk to fit.

All of this can be yours for the mere price of nothing by emailing contests@thefader.com with "quilts" in the subject line.

We’ve been staring at Matt Furie’s cover art for hours trying to pick our favorite crazy looking monster thing. Right now we are stuck on the melted marshmallow ghost but ask us again in a minute and it might be the Rubix Cube robot in the bottom left. We don’t have to wonder about which song on this FADER/Southern Comfort 7" we like the most, because both are ill. Side A is a Dirty Projectors edit of their own cover of Black Flag’s “Police Story,” going down compelling and uneasy, while Side B holds “Blue Steel,” a warm and relatively low key White Williams piano jam full of hidden layers and an 8-bit undercurrent that will keep us listening breathlessly until the next record.

We have a handful of copies to give away, so email your mailing address to contests@thefader.com with the subject heading "Seven."

Artwork by Tomoe Hayama

For the fourth edition of the FADER/Southern Comfort 7" series, we asked ourselves, "What would it sound like to get your butt sliced off by a ninja robot in the year 3076?" The answer (clearly) was Parisian party animal Busy P on one side and B'more blockslayer DJ Blaqstarr on the other. And then we got Tomoe Hayama to design that ninja's adverthrowingstar for the cover. Watch out!

Artwork by Andrew Jeffrey Wright

It’s that time again: team FADER got with Southern Comfort to color your world with a new limited edition FADER/Southern Comfort 7". ATL faves Black Lips stunned us with their Twilite Zoned intro to “Wild Man” on side a, and P-town fave YACHT succinctly spelled out his “No Favors Policy” on the b-side (think grunge, folks!). Philly artist Andrew Jeffrey Wright designed a wavy gravy illustration to bring it all home. Sensory overload—and more proof that we love you! We have a handful to give away to lucky blog readers, just email contests@thefader.com, put "seven" in the subject line somewhere, and we'll select winners at random.

The second volume of our FADER/Southern Comfort 7" series has arrived. For this limited-edition vinyl, we asked London's Jack Duplock to handle cover art duty, and got Mavado and Busy Signal to give us fresh heatrocks, produced by Daseca and Black Chiney Soundsystem, respectively. This slab of goodness is not available in stores, but we do have copies for our loyal blog readers (that’s you). Email us at contests@thefader.com and tell us your favorite Busy Signal and/or Mavado chune, and we'll send five of you a copy. For free! Get at us.

The first run of our FADER/Southern Comfort7" series has arrived. For this limited-edition vinyl, we asked Lou Laurita to handle cover art duty, and got some of our pals to contribute unreleased jamz: M Ward and Jim James are featured on the A-side with “Magic Trick (Kansas City Remix),” then flip it over for Ladyhawk’s “Soap”. It’s not available in stores, but we do have copies for our loyal blog readers (that’s you). Email us at contests@thefader.com and tell us the theme of M Ward's 2005 album release and we'll send five of you a copy. For free! Get to Googling and get at us with your answers.