FADER 59: Little Boots Cover Story
- story Kim Taylor Bennett
- photo Leonie Purchas
The perfect pop analog to Harlem’s Charles Hamilton is Blackpool, England’s Little Boots aka Victoria Hesketh. Both have blogs where they constantly update fans with new songs (Hesketh’s is here) and those songs are consistently the best ones you’ve heard all day. Both are super young and kind of nerdish, but Little Boots exploded clubs like a hardened studio rat last year with “Stuck On Repeat,” which, we promise you, was not an accident. Kim Taylor Bennett caught up with Hesketh and her Tenori-On at her new home in London while photographer Leonie Purchas took her back to Blackpool for some epic coastal scenery. Read the full story after the jump and check back with TheFADER.com for more Little Boots exclusives.
FADER 59: Charles Hamilton Cover Story
- story Felipe Delerme
- photo Gabriele Stabile
For the covers of our newest NOW Issue, we chose two youngsters who’ve effortlessly mastered the art of internet self-promotion via prolific, enthralling DIY artistry. One of those covers, Charles Hamilton, released eight great mixtapes on eight different sites last year and frequently puts his taste for Sonic the Hedgehog on blast on charleshamilton.blogspot.com, but we still felt like we didn’t know who he was. FADER editor Felipe Delerme went up to Harlem for a few days to shadow Hamilton at his home and high school and came back with a story not only about uptown’s youngest, nerdiest star but the Harlem hustlers who will join his play for reign in 2009: Ron Browz, Jim Jones and Max B. Read the full story after the jump and keep checking TheFADER.com for Charles Hamilton exclusives.
Freeload: The FADER Issue 59 Podcast
- story THE FADER
This year’s NOW issue (free download here) is basically our way of putting love on paper. The stories are all the result of romances with music that we think will hit you hard in 2009 — Charles Hamilton, Little Boots, Blank Dogs, Electrik Red — and those are just the features. But since it’s difficult to express our feelings without you hearing the songs, we put together another podcast of music from the issue, including jams from Woolfy, Amazing Baby, De Tropix, Wavves, Lauren Flax, Antony and Homebwoi that will make your little blog heart flutter. Get the podcast below and check the tracklist after the jump.
Download the FADER 59 mix as an mp3 (right click, save as)
Sign up for our podcasts on iTunes
Subscribe via your favorite RSS reader
Check the tracklist after jump.
Live: FADER 59 Issue Release Party
- story THE FADER
We had a party in Brooklyn last night to celebrate the release of our annual NOW issue, this time around with Little Boots and Charles Hamilton on the covers. LB couldn’t make it from the UK, so Charles went solo and pulled out all the tricks, namely shredding on a Hello Kitty guitar (We stole it from a little girl on the subway for him). F59 Gen Fer Lauren Flax played records for everyone to rub shoulders to while they knocked back some free Bud American Ale, and by the end of the night we were roasting our nuts over Union Pool’s fire pit. Camp FADER! After the jump, check out a whole bunch of pictures from the packed party, and keep checking TheFADER.com for more exclusives.
The FADER Issue 59 Free Download
- story THE FADER
Our annual NOW issue is the result of countless hours combing websites, stacks of promos and our own brains to figure out what new artists are going to blow us away over the next 365 days. We chose Harlem’s prolific Charles Hamilton and Blackpool, England’s techno tinkerbell Little Boots for the covers because they best represent what it means to be an emerging pop star in this day and age. In the second half of 2008, Hamilton released countless free mixtapes online, earning fans and a record deal in the process, while Little Boots launched her career with a series of intimate bedroom cover songs on YouTube and a nearly perfect pop song of her own. In 2009, we can only see them growing and improving, and the same goes for everything else between the covers of FADER Number 59, whether it’s Blank Dogs’ bedroom goth-pop or Electrik Red’s raunchy R&B experiments, Wavves’ fuzzed out beach bum rock or De Tropix’s blend of soca and grime. It’s all here, PRINTED ON DIGITAL PAPER. Download FADER 59 below, and check back daily for stories from the magazine and other exclusives only here on TheFADER.com
Get Issue 59 now on iTunes,
subscribe via your favorite RSS reader here,
or download the individual F59 full-issue PDF here.
EXCLUSIVE! Charles Hamilton and Little Boots Cover The FADER’s NOW Issue!
- story THE FADER
In case you didn’t know from the interskreets, aka Charles Hamilton’s blog or Little Boots’ myspace: Our annual NOW issue, in which we intuit whose cassettes we will be maxing in our Walkmen for the entire year, is all about the flash and shine of Harlem delight Charles Hamilton and London glitteratess Little Boots. FADER 59 will hit newsstands and your doorstep in a few short days, and we’ll be posting the entire thing here on Tuesday, January 13, exactly one week before the Inauguration. It’s our time!
