FADER 53: DFA Feature
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Read Matthew Schnipper’s feature on the next wave of New York City dance label DFA Records after the jump.
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posted on Sep 3, 2008 in FEATURES tags Black Meteoric Star, DFA, electronic/dance, F53, Hercules and Love Affair, Holy Ghost!, Still Going
FADER 53: Ladyhawk Feature
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Our love of Ladyhawk—the most American sounding Canadian band working today—is well documented in the various forms of media we inhabit, but the hugest bummer of all the bummers is that Europe has never gotten a chance to experience the band live on a real life stage. Ladyhawk are coming to you London and Dublin and Groningen and Utrecht and other places (like the non European city of Los Angeles), go see them and buy them beers. Tour dates are below, and then when you are done looking at those, read Sam Hockley-Smith’s feature on the band from F53.
08/25 – Beirut, Lebanon – Big Bang Festival
08/26 – Los Angeles, CA – Fuck Yeah! Fest
09/21 – Tilburg, Netherlands – ZXZW Festival
09/22 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso
09/23 – London, UK – Brixton Windmill
09/24 – Leeds, UK – Faversham
09/26 – Glasgow, UK – Nice N’ Sleazy
09/27 – Dublin, IRL – Crawdaddy’s
09/28 – Manchester, UK – Roadhouse
09/29 – Bristol, UK – St. Bonaventure’s Parish Club
09/30 – Cardiff, UK – Clwb Ifor Bach
10/01 – London, UK – The Borderline
10/04 – Groningen, Netherlands – Take Root Festival
FADER 53: Ricky Blaze Feature
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Back in our April issue we jumped on the Ricky Blaze train early, documenting he and the Fire Unit’s leading roll in the nascent Brooklyn underage dancehall scene, from pirate radio shows to hectic parties. Now, just in time for Ricky and company’s summer takeover, you can get acquainted with our FADER 53 feature story after the jump.
FADER 53: Telepathe Feature
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Whether or not you just watched them in FADER TV’s “Avoiding Disease At The Yard” or not, you should want to know more about Brooklyn’s Telepathe because they are great and are not afraid to do whatever they feel like. We respect that, and we wrote a story about them. Read it in its entirety after the jump.
Freeload: Bohagon, “Been Gettin’ Money”
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If you’ve paid any attention to Atlanta over the last decade and a half, you might get the feeling there are a lot of guys down in the A like Bohagon—dudes whose raps you could listen to all day, who enter your orbit once a season, but there’s just never enough time to champion them all. But Bohagon finally has a solo album coming out someday soon, and this single illustrates exactly why we decided to put him in FADER #53. Read that after the jump and uh set a Google alert for “bohagon who am i?” for the album release.
Download: Bohagon, “Been Gettin Money”
Live: Abe Vigoda At The FADER 53 Release Party
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You know what’s awesome? Seeing Abe Vigoda play on a half pipe in the middle of a warehouse in the conveniently named Warehouse District in LA. Equally awesome is that we were drinking complimentary Bass Ale the whole time and wandering around from the floor to the back yard (shout to the bonfire at the warehouse next door). Also, they were grilled cheese sandwiches and the now infamous-in-some-circles Cali Dewitt and Jenna Thornhill of Mika Miko manning the turntables and playing us some epic jams. Check out a few photos of the event after the jump.
Vinyl Archeology: DJ Craze Remembers Miami Bass
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DJ Craze is a record-setting, three-time DMC world champion and is widely accepted as one of the best scratch DJs on Earth. He just dropped a mix for Fabric’s DJ series, Fabriclive, and since MySpace tourdates never lie, is also apparently Kanye’s new DJ, which means he will be even more famous in about three seconds. After the jump, read Craze’s VA from FADER 53 in which he recalls and recounts the very first Miami Bass tracks he heard growing up in MIA. Also, since it’s the internet, we’ve added some multimedia-ness to the whole thing.
FADER 53: Lil Boosie
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For our issue 53 cover we went to Baton Rouge to talk to rap’s sharpest voice about his self-made rise to fame and impossibly catchy homegrown singles that have penetrated our brainwaves pretty much out of nowhere. After the jump check out Chris Richards’ feature on Lil Boosie, watch as Boosie performs for thousands of fans and listen to an exclusive mixtape only available at thefader.com.
Audio: The FADER Issue 53 Podcast
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FADER contributing editor and DJ Eddie Stats hooked up an excellent mix of the music that made our issue. From Glass Candy’s chilled italo disco to Lil Boosie’s southern sneer, we sonically cover it all: including auto tune enthusiasts Ricky Blaze and Demarco, the DFA’s new disco, Ladyhawk’s bar rock and Telepathe’s weirdo Brooklyn swagger. There’s a bunch more to check in the mix, so download it below.
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The FADER Issue 53 Free Download
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If you were to make a list of all the Ultimate Jams included in Issue 53 of the FADER (the real Issue 53), you’d have enough great songs to hold you over forever, or until the next issue of The FADER. We talked to Italians Do It Better flagship group Glass Candy in Portland, went to Baton Rouge to hang with Lil Boosie, drank beers in Vancouver with Ladyhawk, and hung in Brooklyn with the new guard of DFA, trancehall genius Ricky Blaze, and the dream poppers known as Telepathe. We also hit up star-in-the-making Estelle and next big thing Demarco to find out what they were up to. If that wasn’t enough, we also talked to a billion more dudes and dudettes who are making some of the most exciting music around. Check out all that stuff and a bunch more now for zero dollars (free!) below.
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