FADER TV: Major Lazer Live at the F62 Party
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Last night about 400 of our closest and overarchingly attractive friends rolled up on a secret Bushwick rooftop for one of the most epic FADER issue release parties in recent history, celebrating FADER #62, starring Major Lazer and the new Mad Decent vanguard. We rented some palm trees, made a lifesize cardboard cutout of Rodney Dangerfield holding a boombox and handed out buckets of Budweiser and Southern Comfort. After amazing performances by NY princesa Maluca and Philly destruction punks Popo, Major Lazer commandeered the stage. Everybody at the party flocked to them like moths to flame: Their album dropped yesterday, and after their NY performance on Saturday, it seems like the entire city just developed an Empire State-sized boner for them. So when they performed party faves “Pon De Floor” and “Hold the Line,” with bespoke-neon hypeman 77Klash, extra focused hand drummer Prince Terrence, and two of the most energetic young mummies we have ever seen, the crowd became the definition of berzerker. It was kind of cold outside, but it felt like the perfect spark for hopefully the best summer ever.
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posted on Jun 17, 2009 in EVENT FADER SHOW, EVENTS CHANNEL, FADER TV tags 77Klash, F62, Major Lazer, Maluca, Popo, Prince Terrence
We Party (and Make Magazines)
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WORLD PREMIERE!! FADER #62, our Summer Music issue, hits newsstands next week and these are the covers. But this week might be the end of us. We’re seeing our latest coverstars Major Lazer at least three times and Phoenix hopefully twice. We’re going to remix the entirety of Guns Don’t Kill People Lazers Do on this new Major Lazer iDrum app and then drink some French wine with the Phoenix guys, or at least some kids who work at APC or maybe just by ourselves. We’re going to hand out copies of our new issue like we’re the rich uncle at the wedding and they are $20 bills and then we’re going to pass out on Sunday and start making the next one on Monday (Jokes! We’re already working on it.) So if you see us on the town before then, rambling and not smelling very good, just grab a copy and move along. We’ll take showers next week, we promise.
