http://www.thefader.com The FADER is the definitive voice of emerging music and the lifestyle that surrounds it. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:03:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://www.thefader.com/2011/04/12/blaqstarrs-blaqstarr-the-mixtape/ http://www.thefader.com/2011/04/12/blaqstarrs-blaqstarr-the-mixtape/#comments Tue, 12 Apr 2011 21:30:46 +0000 Duncan Cooper http://www.thefader.com/?p=105091 When we spoke to Blaqstarr two months ago, we could swear he said this was going to be a Baltimore Club mixtape. It’s not, and it’s hard to say what is. The self-titled mixtape features … read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2011/04/12/blaqstarrs-blaqstarr-the-mixtape/feed/ 0 http://www.thefader.com/2011/02/28/videos-blaqstarr-never-hesitant-turning-out-ride-remixmp3/ http://www.thefader.com/2011/02/28/videos-blaqstarr-never-hesitant-turning-out-ride-remixmp3/#comments Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:30:59 +0000 Duncan Cooper http://www.thefader.com/?p=95426 Captured our hearts with the K-Swift intro, RIP . The aesthetic of this video is super YouTube, crazy pixel glows and green-screen artifacts left and right, but laptop speakers are not the place for Blaqstarr. … read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2011/02/28/videos-blaqstarr-never-hesitant-turning-out-ride-remixmp3/feed/ 0 http://www.thefader.com/2011/02/02/interview-blaqstarr-spaces-out/ http://www.thefader.com/2011/02/02/interview-blaqstarr-spaces-out/#comments Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:29:55 +0000 Duncan Cooper http://www.thefader.com/?p=89368 Blaqstarr’s Divine EP came out last week, a strange and sexed up Galactic Quest that channels slurred AutoTune as much as the future-club drum breaks he is usually known for. Since releasing his last EP … read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2011/02/02/interview-blaqstarr-spaces-out/feed/ 2 http://www.thefader.com/2011/01/25/video-blaqstarr-rider-girl/ http://www.thefader.com/2011/01/25/video-blaqstarr-rider-girl/#comments Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:02:44 +0000 Naomi Zeichner http://www.thefader.com/?p=88256 For the video for “Rider Girl,” a kind and jilted “She Lives In My Lap“-type paean, Maya‘s boy Blaqstarr took it down a notch to lover-burn, stacked his hair in a pyramid and cut up … read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2011/01/25/video-blaqstarr-rider-girl/feed/ 3 http://www.thefader.com/2010/10/11/video-blaqstarr-pressure/ http://www.thefader.com/2010/10/11/video-blaqstarr-pressure/#comments Mon, 11 Oct 2010 21:00:10 +0000 Julianne Escobedo Shepherd http://www.thefader.com/?p=73370 Wow, Blaqstarr‘s clearly somewhere near MIA‘s paranoid brainspace—this video puts the viewer in spy position, peeping in on dude spooning his homegirl as though watching from a closed circuit television. Which begs the question—what percentage … read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2010/10/11/video-blaqstarr-pressure/feed/ 0 http://www.thefader.com/2010/09/23/video-blaqstarr-f-mia-let-me-hump-you/ http://www.thefader.com/2010/09/23/video-blaqstarr-f-mia-let-me-hump-you/#comments Thu, 23 Sep 2010 19:00:45 +0000 Julianne Escobedo Shepherd http://www.thefader.com/?p=71068 This is the best found-footage video we’ve seen yet: find a bunch of free porn on the internet, have someone animate it so it’s safe for all ages (cough, sort of), slap a song called … read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2010/09/23/video-blaqstarr-f-mia-let-me-hump-you/feed/ 4 http://www.thefader.com/2010/05/11/stream-m-i-a-xxxo-mp3-and-check-out-this-insane-blog-page/ http://www.thefader.com/2010/05/11/stream-m-i-a-xxxo-mp3-and-check-out-this-insane-blog-page/#comments Tue, 11 May 2010 16:30:10 +0000 Julianne Escobedo Shepherd http://www.thefader.com/?p=28998 Can’t tell what we’re more excited about: the fact that M.I.A. made a deconstructionist mall-pop jam (which sounds more like Sleigh Bells‘ Derek Miller was on beats than actual producers Blaqstarr and Rusko), or the … read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2010/05/11/stream-m-i-a-xxxo-mp3-and-check-out-this-insane-blog-page/feed/ 1 http://www.thefader.com/2010/04/30/video-blaqstarr-oh-my-darling/ http://www.thefader.com/2010/04/30/video-blaqstarr-oh-my-darling/#comments Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:00:56 +0000 Matthew Schnipper http://www.thefader.com/?p=27887 We’d heard a couple years ago that Blaqstarr really wanted to stop DJing so that he could focus on his career as an artist. Until then, his electrocized Baltimore club music had been mainly production … read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2010/04/30/video-blaqstarr-oh-my-darling/feed/ 2 http://www.thefader.com/2010/04/30/video-blaqstarr-oh-my-darling-2/ http://www.thefader.com/2010/04/30/video-blaqstarr-oh-my-darling-2/#comments Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:02:50 +0000 admin http://www.suite903.com/?p=5647 read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2010/04/30/video-blaqstarr-oh-my-darling-2/feed/ 0 http://www.thefader.com/2009/03/16/freeload-rye-rye-feat-m-i-a-bang/ http://www.thefader.com/2009/03/16/freeload-rye-rye-feat-m-i-a-bang/#comments Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:44:00 +0000 THE FADER read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2009/03/16/freeload-rye-rye-feat-m-i-a-bang/feed/ 0 http://www.thefader.com/2009/02/18/video-freeload-chairlift-vs-kanye-blaqstarr-bang-out/ http://www.thefader.com/2009/02/18/video-freeload-chairlift-vs-kanye-blaqstarr-bang-out/#comments Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:37:00 +0000 THE FADER read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2009/02/18/video-freeload-chairlift-vs-kanye-blaqstarr-bang-out/feed/ 0 http://www.thefader.com/2008/12/09/freeload-we-make-it-good-mix-by-blaqstarr/ http://www.thefader.com/2008/12/09/freeload-we-make-it-good-mix-by-blaqstarr/#comments Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:00:00 +0000 THE FADER read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2008/12/09/freeload-we-make-it-good-mix-by-blaqstarr/feed/ 0 http://www.thefader.com/2008/11/04/video-someone-films-themselves-watching-a-video-for-m-i-a-and-blaqstarr-s-way-down-in-the-hole/ http://www.thefader.com/2008/11/04/video-someone-films-themselves-watching-a-video-for-m-i-a-and-blaqstarr-s-way-down-in-the-hole/#comments Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:49:00 +0000 THE FADER read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2008/11/04/video-someone-films-themselves-watching-a-video-for-m-i-a-and-blaqstarr-s-way-down-in-the-hole/feed/ 1 http://www.thefader.com/2008/06/06/live-dri-free-blood-and-blaqstarr-at-the-fader-54-release-party/ http://www.thefader.com/2008/06/06/live-dri-free-blood-and-blaqstarr-at-the-fader-54-release-party/#comments Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:00:00 +0000 THE FADER read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2008/06/06/live-dri-free-blood-and-blaqstarr-at-the-fader-54-release-party/feed/ 0 http://www.thefader.com/2008/06/04/reminder-fader-party-tonight-in-greenpoint/ http://www.thefader.com/2008/06/04/reminder-fader-party-tonight-in-greenpoint/#comments Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:23:00 +0000 THE FADER read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2008/06/04/reminder-fader-party-tonight-in-greenpoint/feed/ 0 http://www.thefader.com/2007/11/15/video-dj-blaqstarr-rye-rye-shake-it-to-the-ground/ http://www.thefader.com/2007/11/15/video-dj-blaqstarr-rye-rye-shake-it-to-the-ground/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:44:00 +0000 THE FADER read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2007/11/15/video-dj-blaqstarr-rye-rye-shake-it-to-the-ground/feed/ 0 http://www.thefader.com/2007/10/24/full-metal-ninja/ http://www.thefader.com/2007/10/24/full-metal-ninja/#comments Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:15:00 +0000 THE FADER read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2007/10/24/full-metal-ninja/feed/ 0