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THE FADER
PHOTOGRAPHY: bryan derballa, talia herman (f77)
Everything goes in cycles, and right now we’re currently somewhere in the late-middle period of a heavy electronic music resurgence. Everyone involved is obsessed with talking about the textures of their music, and even more … read more »
POSTED January 2, 2012 10:29AM IN FEATURES
TAGS: 100% Silk, airbird, Best Coast, cedaa, electronic/dance, Ford and Lopatin, Gremino, harmonizer, innergaze, Ital, Kingdom, LA Vampires, magic touch, Maria Minerva, mexican summer, mikeq, Nguzunguzu, Night Slugs, not not fun, Oneohtrix Point Never, Pharaohs, Pocahaunted, Prince William, software, the deeep, Tigercity, Total Freedom
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Amber Bravo
Jean-Luc Godard made films for a generation raised on Marx & Coca Cola, but it’s damn near impossible to name the innumerable icons to which to reduce ours, a generation that witnessed the quick rise … read more »
POSTED November 2, 2011 6:30PM IN ART+CULTURE NEWS, MUSIC VIDEO
TAGS: Alain Renais, Anna Karina, Ben Fries, Best Coast, Burial, catherine deneuve, Chairlift, Class Actress, Cults, Drew Barrymore, Elite Gymnastics, Four Tet, Georges Delerue, Grimes, HTRK, jaques demy, jean-luc godard, Jim James, Kindness, Pierre Koralnik, Purity Ring, Real Estate, Widowspeak
STORY BY:
THE FADER
Given the popularity of our week-long What We’re Reading series, we’ve decided to make it a weekly column. Just think of this as your non-committal book club with The FADER and some of your favorite … read more »
STORY BY: Elizabeth Karp-Evans, Nick Spain and Kiran Samuel
Today, September 8th, the storm that is Fashion’s Night Out hits New York. With over a thousand stores participating this year and diehard shoppers swarming the streets, shit is bound to get a little crazy. … read more »
POSTED September 8, 2011 11:58AM IN STYLE NEWS
TAGS: 3.1 phillip lim, beach fossils, bergdorf goodman, Best Coast, Billy Reid, Cults, deer dana, Ellie Goulding, fashion's night out, Freelance Whales, gary graham, helmut lang, henril bendel, James Murphy, Keds, mirror mirror, MNDR, Nike, nyfw, OAK, Opening Ceremony, ronnie spector, Tanlines, theory
STORY BY:
Duncan Cooper
Wavves’ upcoming self-released EP Life Sux features a collaboration with similarly-cat-minded and romantically-entwined stand up young adult Bethany Cosentino, front-boo of Best Coast. Their little gem hangs easy with its tag-team chorus of God is … read more »
POSTED September 6, 2011 6:28PM IN MP3 / STREAMS
TAGS: Best Coast, rock, Wavves
STORY BY:
THE FADER
** We talked to some artists about staying an outsider at school—whether by dropping out or getting ten-plus years deep in the academy. John Maus, Kreayshawn, Killer Mike, Best Coast and more told us about … read more »
POSTED September 4, 2011 10:09AM IN MUSIC NEWS
TAGS: Best Coast, Big Freedia, hip hop, John Maus, Killer Mike, Kreayshawn, Little Dragon, r&b, Spank Rock, Stacy Barthe, syd the kyd, The-Dream, Tyler the Creator, Wavves
STORY BY: INTERVIEWS BY AMBER BRAVO, DUNCAN COOPER, NICK SPAIN, KAM TAMBINI AND NAOMI ZEICHNER
PHOTOGRAPHY: MARCO CIBOLA (F75)
While the standard aspiration in the American school system is to get a college degree, we’ve found that many of the weirdest, best artists have stayed true to outsider form, either eschewing the system altogether … read more »
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THE FADER
Insound and Chicago’s Delicious Design League teamed up to create six band tees. Enter to win one from the first batch, which pay homage to The Walkmen and Best Coast. Just let us know your … read more »
POSTED August 15, 2011 2:00PM IN CONTESTS
TAGS: Best Coast, The Walkmen
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THE FADER
***Chris Brown embraces his bad boy image, with his with his not-too-bad Boy in Detention mixtape ***After a two-year-too-long hiatus, Air France finally released a new track. ***Right on the heels of a new Best … read more »
POSTED August 7, 2011 11:10AM IN MUSIC NEWS
TAGS: Air France, Best Coast, body conscious, CFCF, Chris Brown, electronic/dance, fam-lay, High Places, hip hop, Jerry Garcia, jj, Ne-Yo, physical therapy, rock, The Neptunes, Yelawolf
STORY BY:
THE FADER
Staying physically and mentally fit is the young person’s holy grail, but there’s simply no one right way to do it. In our Body Conscious series, we’ll explore how some people protect their minds and … read more »