Theophilus London’s Levi’s® FADER FORT Preview Show on East Village Radio

We are getting deeply amped about the Levi’s®/FADER Fort in Austin this week. It kicks off on Wednesday and the line-up is, as usual, bananas, plus our pals at East Village Radio are once again broadcasting live and direct on location at the Fort. Yo, protect the stream! We got our homeboy Theophilus London to do a show for EVR featuring tracks from both this year’s line-up and Forts of yore. For time immemorial (and to get in our psyched headspace), check out the two-hour stream featuring tracks from Fool’s Gold, The Very Best ft. Ezra Koenig, Neon Indian, The Drums, Real Estate, Dam Funk, Local Natives, Tanlines, a live performance from POPO bros, and a brand new, unreleased jam from Theophilus himself. Check the full line-up over here and don’t forget to sign up for our essential Fort app for real time, real life updates, and listen to The FADER’s The Let Out every Friday from 6-8 pm on eastvillageradio.com. See you in a couple days, Texas!

Stream: Theophilus London’s Levi’s /FADER Fort Preview on East Village Radio

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Video: Dam-Funk, “I Wanna Thank U 4 Steppin’ Into My Life (Piano Version)”

Dude, WHAAAHHHAHAAT. We may not have Valentines this weekend (unless some shit goes royally right in the next 48 hours), but this song just made us want to lay the planet down on some satin sheets! Who even needs a Valentine, y’all? Let’s make love to the Earth!

Video: Dam-Funk, “Mirrors”

This video, directed by Henry DeMaio, is for a song we debuted on the second installment of our Visionary podcasts, which were made while we furtively worked on our Dam-Funk cover story in FADER 64 and then Dam played “Mirrors” at the first ever FADER Bowl. So, in a way, watching it is like spooning with our brainstems during the month of October. Squeeze tight and enjoy the glowing keytar. (via P4k)

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FEATURE: Dam-Funk Redefines Borders

Riding north up Arlington Avenue toward a downtown rehearsal studio, Dam-Funk points out a dark, thin stream of smoke billowing high above the San Gabriel Mountains—a sign of what will, a week later, be declared one of the largest wildfires in Southern California history. The last time his Leimert Park neighborhood endured any type of cataclysmic fire damage was during the Rodney King riots of 1992—the point when a decade of gentrification boiled over and South Central burned. Read More

Nite Funk (Nite Jewel x Dam-Funk), “Am I Gonna Make It” MP3

Holy Our-Mom’s-House-in-1982! The collabo between Nite Jewel and Dam-Funk sounds like a goth Patrice Rushen art directed by a 2012 replicant of Rick James. Or like, Ashford and Simpson over Slave’s keyb section. Except Nite Jewel wants to know how she’s gonna ditch the “creeps” at whatever discotheque/neon-lit street of Hollywood where she’s lamping, and Dam-Funk is as usual transmitting his melodies from Mars via satellite. And even though the song’s about feeling uncomfortable and sorta despondent, this is some straight lover’s funk. Also for some random reason it makes us want to go home and watch After Hours again. Maybe because it’s just as off-kilter and mysterious. If these guys drop a whole album as an extension of their XLR8R video, we predict a baby boom nine months later. Can you two also holler at some DeBarges and make it official? Chico is waiting for your call.



Download: Nite Funk, “Am I Gonna Make It” (via GvsB via XLR8R)

Dam Funk Live at FADER Bowl

Though it’s already been a little over two short weeks, it seems like just yesterday that our Dam-Funk issue released and Dam himself rewarded our prescience by delivering a modern funk extravaganza at Brooklyn Bowl. That magical night was the first of many in an upcoming series of good, wholesome FADER getdowns, the next of which we will be announcing soon. Dam’s album, Toeachizown, happened to drop around the same time as the party and is chockful of the modern funk synth carols and keytar mastery we saw in his performance. It’s also five volumes, or a grand consolation for those who didn’t make it out to see his two hour plus performance.

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Theophilus London & Dam-Funk on BBC Radio

Our dudes Theophilus and Dam shared the spotlight last night on Gilles Peterson’s show. TL was in studio after finishing up a jaunt through the UK with Jack Penate and Dam beamed his section in from Planet Funkazoid (his house in LA). Before and after, Gilles plays his regular mellow jams. Light some “incense” and get your day going.

Stream: Theophilus London & Dam-Funk on BBC Radio

Bonus Dam with cat photo from FADER Issue 64 by Jason Nocito.

Dam-Funk 4 Clae, Beautiful Music 4 Beautiful People Mixtape MP3

During one of many interviews for his F64 cover story, in response to a question about who he considers his musical peers , Dam-Funk made sure to shout out Mono/Poly and Nite Jewel, who are, coincidentally, two of the first three artists to appear on this mixtape he curated for sneaker brand Clae. The rest of the tracklist happens to include legends like The Whispers and Anita Baker, and takes it all the way back to ‘82, which we can only hope means that some of our younger siblings were conceived to these songs. Download the Beautiful Music 4 Beautiful People mixtape below and be sure to pick up Dam’s double CD Toeachizown, in stores now.

Download: Dam-Funk 4 Clae, Beautiful Music 4 Beautiful People mixtape

NYC: Dam-Funk Comes to the FADER Bowl

Tomorrow, Tuesday October 27th, our cover star, West Coast boogie maven, Dam-Funk comes east to celebrate the release of his impossibly funky new album Toeachizown. We’ve invited him—along with like minded bumpers Snack n Cmish, Duane Harriot and Master Khan and Cubic Zirconia—to inaugurate the first FADER new monthly party at the extraordinary new, massive Brooklyn Bowl. This is both stellar venue perfect for a lot of furious jamming and a real live bowling alley, so make sure to bring both your dancing and your bowling shoes. We’ll be doing both at the same time. While playing air keytar. Come through! No RSVP necessary, just a positive mental attitude (Dam-Funk made us say that).

The FADER Issue 64 Free Download

With domestic issues weighing so heavily on every American’s mind these days, it felt appropriate to focus our sixth annual photo issue inward. We started by selecting two cover stories that represent seemingly opposing factions of this country—the values of small town America via Eau Claire, Wisconsin’s Bon Iver and the hard grind of big city life through South Central Los Angeles’ Dam-Funk—and found more common ground between them than most talking heads and politicians would care to know. For the feature photo story, Peter van Agtmael’s plaintive portraits of widespread citizens and Victoria Sambunaris’ landscapes of geological sites along Interstate 80 create a visual dialogue between man and land and will hopefully leave you asking questions rather than giving answers. And because the future prosperity of the US will depend on the dreams of its newest residents as it always has, we focused our fashion story on first generation Americans and new emigres living in New York’s five boroughs. Not to mention our regular selection of Gen F profiles, including Kris Kristofferson, The XX, Neon Indian, Kurt Vile, Kyle Hall and Warpaint, plus interviews with RZA, Janka Nabay, Andrew Weatherall and tons more. So feel free (because it is literally free) to check it all out, and if you make TheFADER.com your homepage you won’t miss our treasure trove of extras and outtakes from above and beyond the issue.

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