Tagged: F52
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.
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
