FADER TV: Nipsey Hussle, “Let’s Talk Money” (Live at the Issue #61 Release Party)
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Everyone, ourselves included, has been comparing Nipsey Hussle to Snoop, but after his brief yet intense performance at our party on Wednesday night, we’ve decided that’s only because they kind of look alike. Hussle has no kind of Snoopish blasé when he’s onstage: snatching spliffs, barking at the sound guy (sorry dude), jumping into the crowd and generally firing off round after round of awesome LA gun clap rap. If you missed the party, here’s “Let’s Talk Money,” and make sure to pick up the new issue of The FADER when it hits newsstands next week to read our story about Hussle.
FADER TV: Estelle Live At The FADER 55 Party
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In T. Cole Rachel’s F55 cover story, he describes Estelle in their initial meeting as looking like a superhero. At the time, she happened to be coming out of wardrobe for her “No Substitute Love” video. We’re not sure if she felt like she was shooting a video last night, but onstage for our issue 55 release party, she looked (and sounded) like some kind of Wonder Woman. Her set was just long enough to inspire dudes to rampant holleration and short enough for ladies to endure some Bass Ale fueled game. Watch as she performs “Magnificent” and soak up some of that summer love in the exclusive F55 issue release party video. Special thanks to Converse for helping us make it happen.
FADER TV: Shy Child At The FADER/Fred Perry Party
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How many times can we mention that Shy Child utilize a keytar? A million times! But man, look at those things. Here is a video of Shy Child playing our FADER/Fred Perry party at the Mercury Lounge last week— repetitive, catchy and propelled by the same surprisingly not annoying keytar riff over and over again. Is it weird that we’ve watched this video like five times now and are still tapping our feet? Probably a little.These New Puritans—who were the other half of the New York party—will be hitting LA along with the super tall and awesome dream popper Jeremy Jay this Friday. Stay tuned to this one website called thefader.com for more details.
FADER TV: Dri Live At The FADER 54 Party
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Late yesterday we put up Free Blood’s performance at our FADER 54 Party, and this morning we’ve got the lovely and talented Dri fresh out of Lawrence, Kansas. Dri was one of the artists we spoke to in our Aaliyah Icon feature in the issue, so it made sense to bring her in for the festivities. If you haven’t heard her album Smoke Rings, released last year on Range Life Records, we recommend it for vegan BBQ’s and any place that encourages public weed smoking.
FADER TV: Free Blood Live At The FADER 54 Party
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For our latest issue, we decided to throw a party with some free Bass Ale in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, but somehow we ended up in a place called Shangri-La in a part of this land that we are still not sure was New York or even America. Our cab driver was not pleased! Regardless, Free Blood found the place and proceeded to make the people in it sweaty and happy. We videotaped it for all of those who were not in the vicinity. You may watch it above. And you may read about Free Blood in the Gen F section of FADER 54, freely downloadable here.
FADER TV: No Age Likes Hats
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So you know we’ve loved No Age since they were born basically—our first mention of them on this blog coming way back in February of 2007, then a weird one-off profile on the label that first put out their singles Teenage Teardrops, then a Gen F in FADER 44, then a full-fledged feature in FADER 48, a million blog posts, FADER shows, and finally the coup de grâce… a hat. Yep, No Age designed a New Era fitted for us (don’t worry we’ll be giving some away soon), and we were so stoked on it that we threw a party the day before they unleased the Pitchfork 9.whatever-scoring Nouns upon the world. And here is a somewhat crappy video of the dudes playing a song from that album, “Here Should Be My Home”, in full technicolor SCHNIPPERVISION.
FADER TV: BLK JKS at FADER 52 Release Party
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Last Friday at The Knitting Factory we hosted, along with Bass Ale, a party celebrating the release of our Africa issue. Featuring the sweet sounds of DJs Eddie Stats and DJ/Rupture floating down on us from that weird upper level that looks like those raised indoor tracks that we had to run around in high school, as well as a surprisingly bass heavy set from Brooklyn’s own High Places followed by the US debut of South Africa’s BLK JKS. We did the jam band dance along with everyone else—we see you dude in multi-colored beanie! Check out BLK JKS’ performance of “Lakeside” from our party up above and check out a select few pictures from the event after the jump.
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posted on Mar 11, 2008 in EVENT FADER SHOW tags BLK JKS, EVENTS-FADER, F52, FADER TV-EVENTS-FADER, High Places
FADER TV: I-Wayne @ FADER CMJ Sideshow
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Video by Joe Angerone
By the grace of good management, we were able to get I-Wayne to come through The FADER CMJ Sideshow (delivered by at&t) at the last minute. Here is the girls-onstage-free segment of his performance from Saturday night.
FADER TV: Turbo Fruits @ FADER CMJ Sideshow
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Video by Joe Angerone
Remember when Dad used to call you a turbo fruit? We do! We also remember last Friday when Nashville’s Turbo Fruits shredded their opening slot at The FADER CMJ Sideshow (delivered by at&t), and now you can remember too.
FADER TV: Turzi @ FADER CMJ Sideshow
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Video by Joe Angerone
Turzi was cool enough to come all the way from Paris, France [Ed. They were in New York anyway] to play at The FADER CMJ Sideshow (delivered by at&t), so we’re going to be cool and post this video of them performing “Afghanistan” on Saturday in return.
