RCRD LBL: Stream Michna’s Album In Its Entirety + F56 Gen F
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We’re just going to throw it out there that Magic Monday (out today on Ghostly International) is the sonic coming of age story of Michna. Of course, we’re saying that because we know from our own magazine that he used to play horns in a ska band, and when “Swiss Glide” comes on and the beat is built around skateboard wheels and—surprise—horns, it’s like we’re reliving the time we played Reel Big Fish too loud out of a Discman on the 4th of July, which was a bad idea on every level. What we’re saying is Michna’s album is about growing up, and some noise somewhere in there is going to remind you of some stupid thing you did as a kid, too. While you you’re listening, click more and read Hillary Kaylor’s Gen F on Michna from F56.
Stream: Michna, Magic Monday
FADER 56: The Tough Alliance Cover Story
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After the jump, read Peter Macia’s cover story on Gothenburg, Sweden’s The Tough Alliance, with photos by Leonie Purchas from FADER Number 56.
FADER 56: Dallas Rap Feature
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After the jump, read Felipe Delerme’s piece on the locally massive, globally underappreciated Dallas scene revolving around production duo Play-N-Skillz and larger than life rappers Tum Tum, Big Tuck and Fat Bastard.
Live: FADER 56 Party With Rodriguez and Michna
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To warm up for Rodriguez’s third ever appearance in the United States (that’s a big deal considering his essential album came out in 1969) at our Issue Number 56 party, we sipped on spirits generously provided by Bass Ale, Black Swan Wine, and JC Cognac while F56 Gen-Fer Michna played a diverse DJ set. Michna also chicken scratched “FADER 56 RELEASE PARTY” and “RODRIGUEZ” up on the projection screen some weird video pad. It was approximately 92 million degrees inside, but we were still pretty content. Then Rodriguez came out to play a set of his forgotten, if ever discovered, classics from that 1969 album, Cold Fact. We’re going to go ahead and say it: we totally thought he was Slash for a second. But no, he is Rodriguez—philosophizing between songs, and randomly shouting “FREEDOM OF THE PRESS!” Right on, dude! Just when it was almost too hot to bear, he launched into his weed appreciation anthem “Sugar Man,” and before we knew it, we were cooling off outside, smiling huge and heading home. We’ll have some video of the night up soon, but until then, appreciate the stillness of the photos after the jump.
FADER 56: High Places Feature
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Before seeing them this Saturday at the East Village Radio festival, read T Cole Rachel’s feature story on Brooklyn, New York’s High Places from FADER Number 56.
Freeload: Little Boots’ Computer Fairyland Mix + Gen F
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We have been completely enamored with Blackpool, England’s Little Boots since the day we heard her debut single “Stuck On Repeat”. We expressed our affection by signing up for her mailing list, and she frequently returns the favor with links to her new blog, her corny YouTube covers and occasionally a stellar mix like this one, which, much like her own music, can be used for either dancing or staring out the office window. You can buy Lil Boots’s next single, “Meddle” (co-produced with Joe Goddard from Hot Chip, just like “Stuck on Repeat”) right now as 7-inch at Pure Groove (vinyl comes with “fantasy tattoos”), or wait until November and buy the Arecibo EP, coming out on Iamsound Records which features “Meddle,” “Stuck on Repeat” and remixes from Fake Blood and Ebola. Also, you could take the free stuff below and be on your way. But know this, after reading our sweet little Gen F piece on her after the jump, you will feel pretty terrible for taking and not giving from this girl.
Download: Little Boots’ Computer Fairyland Mix
Stream: Little Boots, “Meddle”
Download: Little Boots, “Meddle (Acoustic Version)”
FADER 56: Busy Signal Cover Story
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Read Edwin ‘Stats’ Houghton’s cover story on dancehall’s most focused voice Busy Signal from the freshly printed issue #56 after the jump. And don’t forget to grab Busy’s newest single “Tic Toc” only available on The FADER dot com.
Freeload: The FADER Issue 56 Podcast
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While putting together FADER Number 56, our Fall Fashion Issue, we noticed a theme emerging: While other glossies explore layering and shades of black, we peeled back, uncovering designers, creators and musicians who are willing to buck trends in order to stay true. Unsurprisingly, the resulting DJ-mixed podcast of music, which you can download below, expresses that die-hard independence perfectly. It’s bookended by two grimy dancehall bangers by coverstar Busy Signal, and littered with next level club anthems by other covermen The Tough Alliance and Gen Fs Little Boots, Larry Heard, Michna and Music Go Music. And for all the dudes and gyal-dudes who don’t dance no more, we’ve got knee-dip joints by Charles Hamilton, Rodriguez, Nisennenmondai, High Places, Play N Skillz and Big Tuck. There’s not a stain on this mix.
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Check the tracklist after jump.
Freeload: Music Go Music, “Reach Out” + Gen F
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When we put up Music Go Music’s first 12″, “Light of Love”, the band was shrouded in mystery and a protected by several dozen layers of ABBA references, but they were on Secretly Canadian, a label we’ve come to respect for many reasons. Our curiousity led us to write a story on them in the Issue 56, which you can read after the jump, in which we not only discovered that they were somewhat normal but also like vegetarian nachos. Small world. They are now releasing their second single, and there is hardly a hint of ABBA, just gigantic riffs, chugging rhythms and a little bit of disco. Or as one of their mom’s says in the story, ““the overture in a ’70s musical that I missed but would have loved.”
Download: Music Go Music, “Reach Out”
The FADER Issue 56 Free Download
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We talk a lot (maybe too much) about our wonderful summer activities around here, but worry not, Other Seasons, you are on our to-do lists. Autumn, in fact, is the next season we plan on attending, and we have put together an issue of our magazine in anticipation. This year’s edition of the annual FADER Fall Fashion Spectacular is actually not filled with images of burger-deprived skinnies and still-lifes of boat shoes, but the people and music that inspire us to be ourselves and do the unexpected. For the cover stories, we went to Sweden to meet The Tough Alliance, Gothenburg’s surreptitiously seditious pop duo, and Kingston where Busy Signal, the baddest loner in dancehall, roams. We also sent our newest editor, Felipe Delerme, to Dallas to put a star on the Dallas rap scene, and got a spellbinding photo essay of Russia’s zek gangsters from Donald Weber. For the last two features we stayed right here in New York to figure out the High Places and document the New Vogue underground. But of course, we couldn’t make a fashion issue without actually doing a fashion story, so our style editors went with photographer Tierney Gearon to Idaho to create some homegrown beauty. All that and the regular excellence you’ve come to expect from every issue. Pick it up at your local newsstands and/or right here in digital format. We promise it won’t clash with your Hammerpants.
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