Tagged: folk
Video: Gil Scott Heron, “I’m New Here”
A stripped-down acoustic session for the title track from Gil Scott-Heron‘s latest is exactly right—the song, a Smog cover, is so plaintive and weathered, so resolutely human. When he looks directly into the camera, it’s … read more »
Spring Styles From Folk at Oki-Ni
British clothing label Folk have their own store locations in London, but alas, none on this side of the Atlantic. Online menswear purveyors Oki-Ni have just posted their edit of the new collection, and will … read more »
Folk Spring 2010 Video
Some clothes are made for strutting, so they put them on tall, spindly models and send them down big runways. Other clothes—pieces that we often find ourselves loving—are actually tailor made for different kinds of … read more »
Temporary Style With Hickoree’s Hard Goods
When it’s this cold out, we’ll only leave the house if it’s really important. Work, food, and sometimes, clothes. A temporary shop from Hickoree’s Hard Goods, an online purveyor of gentlemanly goods, is as golden … read more »
Lissie, “Little Lovin” MP3
Generally we shy away from the Appalachians—too hard to drive through. We’ve been convinced for a decade we’re gonna end up rolling backwards down the Penna Pike in our little clown car like the climax … read more »
Stream: Monsters of Folk’s Entire Album
As we wrote in FADER #63, Monsters of Folk are more than a monster, they’re the definition of it—that is, a true-blue supergroup whose songs are so major they could swallow your whole life. The … read more »
Schnipper’s Slept On
Each Tuesday, FADER editor Matthew Schnipper highlights an underappreciated recent release he thinks we need to know about. This week it’s Mariee Sioux’s Faces in the Rocks. Listen to “Friendbones” below, buy the album and … read more »
Freeload: F2 The New Folk Podcast
Yesterday, we launched the New Folk edition of F2, our quarterly online only magazine powered by Timberland. Today we have the audio podcast to accompany the text. If you’ve been wondering what Phosphorescent sounds like … read more »
Schnipper’s Slept On
Each Tuesday, FADER editor Matthew Schnipper highlights an underappreciated recent release he thinks we need to know about. This week it’s a reissue and remix of Richie Havens “Going Back To My Roots”. Listen to … read more »
Video: Bon Iver, “The Wolves (Act I & II)”
Even though we’re finally approaching the tail end of winter, we still have a place in our hearts for Bon Iver‘s For Emma, Forever Ago, a pretty intimate album that we lived with in the … read more »
