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FEATURE: Esau Mwamwaya (The Very Best)

Read Sarah Bentley’s cover story on Malawi-via-London singer Esau Mwamwaya from FADER Number 52 after the jump, and pick up a few of his newest songs with Radioclit as The Very Best.

POSTED October 2, 2008 11:15AM IN FEATURES Comments (2) TAGS: , , , ,
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FEATURE: BLK JKS Are Out to Map the African Brain or Kill the Patient Trying

It’s a superficial thing, and at this point probably more curse than blessing, but the first thing that hits you about the South African dub metal quartet BLK JKS is their look. There’s a certain … read more »

POSTED October 1, 2008 12:00PM IN FEATURES Comments (3) TAGS: , , , , , ,

FADER TV: BLK JKS at FADER 52 Release Party

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 … read more »

POSTED March 11, 2008 10:14AM IN FADER TV EVENTS TAGS: , , , ,

Q+A: Worship Worthy

For the past year or so, the women of Worship Worthy have been clearing out a corner of the streetwear blogosphere, creating a site that is entirely by-the-ladies-for-the-ladies. Operating under the pseudonyms Saint Agnes, Mary … read more »

POSTED March 4, 2008 11:59AM IN STYLE NEWS TAGS: ,

Video/Gen F: Buraka Som Sistema, “Sound of Kuduro”

While putting together our Africa issue, the dudes in Buraka Som Sistema hooked us up with some footage shot of them in Angola with kuduro wizard DJ Znobia. The video was unedited and only kind … read more »

POSTED March 4, 2008 10:00AM IN GEN F Comments (1) TAGS: , , ,

Audio: The FADER Issue 52 Podcast

For our very special Africa issue we put together a mix of some of the songs and artists that inspired us to put the whole thing together—that means you get jams from cover stars BLK … read more »

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GEN F: Sweat.X

If you haven’t picked up our Africa issue, you should and you should then read about Soweto, South Africa-based Sweat.X, the duo of Spoek Mathambo and Markus Wormstrom, who’ve been jamming up their MySpace with … read more »

POSTED February 25, 2008 11:11AM IN GEN F TAGS: , , ,

Vinyl Archeology: The Synthesizer Sounds of West Africa

One of the key outside contributors to our Africa issue (get it now) was a good dude named Brian Shimkovitz, who lives in Brooklyn but currently resides at Awesome Tapes From Africa. He was instrumental … read more »

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The FADER Issue 52 Free Download

For the 52nd issue of The FADER we flexed our journalistic muscles to find out what was happening with music in Africa right now—from Ghanaian hiplife to the South African Kwaito scene, to our cover … read more »

POSTED February 21, 2008 10:56AM IN MUSIC NEWS Comments (1) TAGS: