Tagged: f70
Smooth Criminals: Vanishing Elephant Breaks Out
Sydney, Australia’s Vanishing Elephant steers clear of any modern focus for their fall collection, instead seeking influence from their homeland’s troubled past. Settled by England as a penal colony in the early 20th century, Australia … read more »
GEN F: Waka Flocka Flame
Waka Flocka Flame does not give a fuck. He’s the rapper that snatched a wayward wig from a pickle-jar-packed Midwest audience while a fight broke out during his incendiary first hit, “O, Let’s Do It,” … read more »
Jennifer Egan Wins Pulitzer Prize + Read Her FADER Story
It was announced yesterday that Jennifer Egan won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for her bananas good A Visit From the Goon Squad. Congratulations to her! Goon Squad is an incredible book covering multiple eras, … read more »
Grab Our New Fall/Winter Playlist on Rdio
We love talkin at ya’ll on Facebook and Twitter and hope you wanna keep that conversation flowing tunewise over at Rdio, a streaming music site with a far and deep reaching collection of hits that … read more »
Reheater: Keith Richards and The Wingless Angels of Jamaica
Our ongoing Reheater column from the print edition, in which we revisit and revere old records being reissued, makes its way online with the reissue of Keith Richards’ Wingless Angels project, recorded with Jamaican folk … read more »
GEN F: Grass Widow
Grass Widow won’t admit to having predecessors. The San Francisco trio is newly signed to legendary label Kill Rock Stars, an originator and subsequent hotbed of riot grrrl and all of its subsets of dewy, … read more »
GEN F: Flight
Flight, aka 27-year-old Steven Bevilaqua, is from Oxford, Mississippi, where, as he says, “There are good bands, but people would much rather listen to Sound Tribe Sector 9.” The music he makes couldn’t be further … read more »
GEN F: Gold Panda
Before Gold Panda wrote glossy electronic music full-time, he bopped crackhead kleptos trying to lift sex toys from the adult shop in London where he worked. “No one else would employ me, really,” he says. … read more »
GEN F: Marnie Stern
Marnie Stern is sitting in a pile of her own smoked cigarettes. Another one is on its way down. “I’m going to die of lung cancer in the next few hours,” she says, her voice … read more »
GEN F: Swans
After a hard-fought three-year writer’s block, Michael Gira thanks Jesus that he finally got some songs out. Since moving to the country and becoming a father, “It’s like hacking away at a rock cliff with … read more »
