http://www.thefader.com The FADER is the definitive voice of emerging music and the lifestyle that surrounds it. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:13:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://www.thefader.com/2012/01/26/grouper-demona-dead-moon-cover-mp3/ http://www.thefader.com/2012/01/26/grouper-demona-dead-moon-cover-mp3/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:00:33 +0000 Amber Bravo http://www.thefader.com/?p=171060 Yeti magazine just released Yeti Twelve in a new square format with cover art by Carson Ellis. The issue features a photo essay from the Alan Lomax Archives chronicling his 1959 “Southern Journey”; poet Margarita … read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2012/01/26/grouper-demona-dead-moon-cover-mp3/feed/ 1 http://www.thefader.com/2011/12/30/dream-team-weston-currie-and-grouper-collaborate-on-a-film/ http://www.thefader.com/2011/12/30/dream-team-weston-currie-and-grouper-collaborate-on-a-film/#comments Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:00:54 +0000 Amber Bravo http://www.thefader.com/?p=165032 One rainy night this past September, filmmaker Weston Currie and musician Liz Harris bka Grouper posted up in a vacant building inside an industrial complex in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, to premiere Currie’s feature-length anthology, The Perception … read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2011/12/30/dream-team-weston-currie-and-grouper-collaborate-on-a-film/feed/ 0 http://www.thefader.com/2011/12/21/a-year-in-music-amber-bravo/ http://www.thefader.com/2011/12/21/a-year-in-music-amber-bravo/#comments Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:00:38 +0000 Amber Bravo http://www.thefader.com/?p=164010 It’s difficult to differentiate a year in music from just a year. Beyonce exists because we hear her at the gym, Bill Callahan is important because he sings about America while we’re abroad, the first … read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2011/12/21/a-year-in-music-amber-bravo/feed/ 2 http://www.thefader.com/2011/11/10/stream-visitor-untitled/ http://www.thefader.com/2011/11/10/stream-visitor-untitled/#comments Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:45:58 +0000 Amber Bravo http://www.thefader.com/?p=153885 As part of Social Music’s new tape series, Social Music’s Record + Tape Club, Liz Harris bka Grouper and Portland cohort Ilyas Ahmed have released a new EP as Visitor. This first, untitled track is … read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2011/11/10/stream-visitor-untitled/feed/ 0 http://www.thefader.com/2011/09/27/see-films-art-music-and-grouper-live-at-nycs-bring-to-light-festival/ http://www.thefader.com/2011/09/27/see-films-art-music-and-grouper-live-at-nycs-bring-to-light-festival/#comments Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:00:45 +0000 Amber Bravo http://www.thefader.com/?p=141717 This weekend, NYC’s Bring To Light festival will descend on Brooklyn, bringing art, film, and music to the Greenpoint waterfront. The]]> http://www.thefader.com/2011/09/27/see-films-art-music-and-grouper-live-at-nycs-bring-to-light-festival/feed/ 0 http://www.thefader.com/2011/08/31/stream-grouper-water-people-moving-machine/ http://www.thefader.com/2011/08/31/stream-grouper-water-people-moving-machine/#comments Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:30:30 +0000 Amber Bravo http://www.thefader.com/?p=135570 Liz Harris aka Grouper releases material somewhat under the radar, preferring to work selectively on projects like films with director Weston Currie, and eeking out releases quietly like the very pretty but minimally promoted double … read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2011/08/31/stream-grouper-water-people-moving-machine/feed/ 1 http://www.thefader.com/2011/06/21/video-grouper-i-saw-ray/ http://www.thefader.com/2011/06/21/video-grouper-i-saw-ray/#comments Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:30:24 +0000 Amber Bravo http://www.thefader.com/?p=121250 Director Weston Currie’s first installment in a series of videos for Grouper’s double album A I A is implicitly terrifying—with all of the action built into ambiguous and slow hyper-slow dissolves and tracking shots. A … read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2011/06/21/video-grouper-i-saw-ray/feed/ 1 http://www.thefader.com/2011/04/18/video-grouper-alien-observer/ http://www.thefader.com/2011/04/18/video-grouper-alien-observer/#comments Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:00:28 +0000 Amber Bravo http://www.thefader.com/?p=106003 The song may be titled “Alien Observer,” but Hamish Parkinson’s video for Grouper’s ethereal ballad is more intra than extra terrestrial. Zombie-like creatures come out from under the leafy mulch for dirty (literally) make-out sessions … read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2011/04/18/video-grouper-alien-observer/feed/ 0 http://www.thefader.com/2011/03/29/stream-grouper-alien-observer/ http://www.thefader.com/2011/03/29/stream-grouper-alien-observer/#comments Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:30:41 +0000 Amber Bravo http://www.thefader.com/?p=102221 If you feel like you never woke up this morning, you can keep riding that somnambulist haze with “Alien Observer”. Off her forthcoming double release Alien Observer and Dream Release (known collectively as A I … read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2011/03/29/stream-grouper-alien-observer/feed/ 0 http://www.thefader.com/2011/03/03/silk-flowers-go-on-tour-have-grouper-make-their-music-sound-like-the-winds-of-death/ http://www.thefader.com/2011/03/03/silk-flowers-go-on-tour-have-grouper-make-their-music-sound-like-the-winds-of-death/#comments Thu, 03 Mar 2011 19:30:16 +0000 Sam Hockley-Smith http://www.thefader.com/?p=96580 If you’re familiar with Silk Flowers then you know they can get kinda baroque, which is cool because moping and dancing don’t necessarily have to be mutually exclusive. Their track “Thin Air,” however, is not … read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2011/03/03/silk-flowers-go-on-tour-have-grouper-make-their-music-sound-like-the-winds-of-death/feed/ 0 http://www.thefader.com/2010/08/10/audio-grouper-hold/ http://www.thefader.com/2010/08/10/audio-grouper-hold/#comments Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:45:40 +0000 Sam Hockley-Smith http://www.thefader.com/?p=39738 Listening to Grouper is less about the individual song than the experience. Like, imagine if someone rolled up to you and was like HOT NEW GROUPER JAM IS OUT OF CONTROL and then they played … read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2010/08/10/audio-grouper-hold/feed/ 1 http://www.thefader.com/2010/04/06/grouper-little-boat-bone-dance-audrey-mp3/ http://www.thefader.com/2010/04/06/grouper-little-boat-bone-dance-audrey-mp3/#comments Tue, 06 Apr 2010 20:03:28 +0000 Sam Hockley-Smith http://www.thefader.com/?p=24801 There is absolutely nothing to grab onto here. Two songs melded into one, no discernible words or riff, just pervasive echo and heavy fog. It’s background music that is powerful enough to flip everything else … read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2010/04/06/grouper-little-boat-bone-dance-audrey-mp3/feed/ 0 http://www.thefader.com/2009/12/22/grouper-and-honey-owens-dont-want-you-to-move-to-portland/ http://www.thefader.com/2009/12/22/grouper-and-honey-owens-dont-want-you-to-move-to-portland/#comments Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:58:35 +0000 Julianne Escobedo Shepherd http://www.thefader.com/?p=21124 read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2009/12/22/grouper-and-honey-owens-dont-want-you-to-move-to-portland/feed/ 5 http://www.thefader.com/2009/12/17/the-fader-issue-65-podcast-mp3/ http://www.thefader.com/2009/12/17/the-fader-issue-65-podcast-mp3/#comments Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:46:56 +0000 THE FADER http://www.thefader.com/?p=20973 read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2009/12/17/the-fader-issue-65-podcast-mp3/feed/ 2 http://www.thefader.com/2009/10/07/video-grouper-hold-the-way/ http://www.thefader.com/2009/10/07/video-grouper-hold-the-way/#comments Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:27:10 +0000 Matthew Schnipper http://www.thefader.com/?p=17371 read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2009/10/07/video-grouper-hold-the-way/feed/ 0 http://www.thefader.com/2009/09/15/atp-new-york-2009-babies-and-drums/ http://www.thefader.com/2009/09/15/atp-new-york-2009-babies-and-drums/#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:12:03 +0000 Peter Macia http://www.thefader.com/?p=14975 read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2009/09/15/atp-new-york-2009-babies-and-drums/feed/ 2 http://www.thefader.com/2009/06/25/musicfest-northwest-lineup-packs-serious-emo-heat/ http://www.thefader.com/2009/06/25/musicfest-northwest-lineup-packs-serious-emo-heat/#comments Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:00:14 +0000 David Bevan http://www.thetripwire.com/?p=25560 read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2009/06/25/musicfest-northwest-lineup-packs-serious-emo-heat/feed/ 0 http://www.thefader.com/2009/05/14/animal-collective-grouper-terminal-5-nyc/ http://www.thefader.com/2009/05/14/animal-collective-grouper-terminal-5-nyc/#comments Thu, 14 May 2009 09:43:53 +0000 Rez Avissar http://www.thetripwire.com/?p=23062 Animal Collective's current tour finds them content with where they are for the first time, spreading selections from their entire discography over almost 2 hours for a packed and sweaty Terminal 5. read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2009/05/14/animal-collective-grouper-terminal-5-nyc/feed/ 1 http://www.thefader.com/2008/12/16/schnipper-s-slept-on-8/ http://www.thefader.com/2008/12/16/schnipper-s-slept-on-8/#comments Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:00:00 +0000 THE FADER read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2008/12/16/schnipper-s-slept-on-8/feed/ 0