Jenny Wilson A Capella at The Levi’s/FADER Fort
- story THE FADER
After her spectacular performance at the Levi’s®/FADER Fort, we brought Swedish queen Jenny Wilson and crew upstairs to record an a capella version of “Like a Fading Rainbow” while they sat on the bed in Room 501. And then laid on it. For all of the original’s tiny clamor, they got pretty close to the details that make it move. If you ever get a chance to have this lady sing for you, do it.
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posted on Nov 3, 2009 in EVENTS CHANNEL, EVENTS LEVI'S/FADER FORT SHOW, FADER TV tags FADER TV, Jenny Wilson, The Levi's/FADER Fort NYC
Jenny Wilson Live at the Levi’s/FADER Fort NYC
- story THE FADER
To those of you who were there Saturday at the Levi’s®/FADER Fort, you can claim to have witnessed the future-legendary Jenny Wilson’s first show in the United States. In from Sweden, Wilson diva’d it up in a giant blue ruffled robe that when she slinked around the stage made her look like a high cheekboned Cheshire Cat. Her mischievous music is certainly Alice in Wonderland appropriate, too. This track, “The Wooden Chair,” is from her Hardships album—a concept record about motherhood. Pick it up, check her incredible video for “Like a Fading Rainbow” and check back soon for a special FADER TV rendition of that song. Non-Swedes, get familiar!
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posted on Oct 27, 2009 in EVENTS CHANNEL, EVENTS LEVI'S/FADER FORT SHOW, FADER TV tags FADER TV, Jenny Wilson, The Levi's/FADER Fort NYC
Video: Frida Hyvönen and Jenny Wilson, “Shadow of a Doubt” (Sonic Youth Cover)
- story Matthew Schnipper
Today is cover day on TheFADER.com. And like The XX’s reworking of “Do You Mind,” Frida Hyvönen and Jenny Wilson completely make over Sonic Youth’s quietly aggressive track “Shadow of a Doubt,” all the way back from 1986’s Evol, translating the guitar line into xylophone and the heavy bass racket into thick piano. Both women have very delicate voices, something Kim Gordon has never had, never needed to have, and their Scandinavian harmonizing of her sly confrontation transforms it completely, making it not a cover so much as a tribute. The video’s setting furthers that—the original clip is a simple shot of Gordon riding a train, her body still but continually moving, shot in pungent green and red. Hyvönen and Wilson, like they’ve retrieved the song from hell, play studiously in some sunny suburban mansion, bathed in a bright white light we have to stare into while they turn their backs to it.
Schnipper’s Slept On
- story Matthew Schnipper
Each Tuesday, FADER editor Matthew Schnipper highlights an underappreciated recent release he thinks we need to know about. This week it’s Jenny Wilson’s Hardships. Watch the video for “Like a Fading Rainbow,” buy the album and read Schnipper’s thoughts on it after the jump.
Freeload: The FADER Issue 62 Podcast
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We and you and everyone we know has been trumpeting the Summer Of Love 2009, and it was our mantra as we put together FADER Issue 62. We scoured the universe for the summeriest, most barbecuey music this year and came up with an issue that, if you scratch-and-sniff it, smells vaguely coconutty like Hawaiian Tropic (not really). As such, this issue’s podcast, presented by Bacardi B-LIVE, is about as clear a definition of what we think you should be listening to in the coming months as we could possibly make. It’s got songs from every artist in the issue from cover stars Phoenix, Major Lazer, Maluca, DJ Sega and Popo; featured power-bros Young Dro, Dum Dum Girls, Wavves, Crocodiles, Family Time Records fam, Gen Fers Omega, D-Lo and Sleepy D, Esser, CFCF, and like a trizillion more people! Download it below and listen while reading the issue, scorching hot like the sun on newsstands right now. And come back to TheFADER.com in two weeks for the free issue PDF that you can save on your computer until the robots take over.
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Check the tracklist after jump.
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posted on Jun 23, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Amadou & Mariam, CFCF, Crocodiles, D-Lo, DJ Sega, Esser, FADER 62, freeload, Jenny Wilson, Major Lazer, Maluca, Omega, Phoenix, podcast, Popo, Sleepy D, Twin Lion, Wavves, Young Dro
Video: Jenny Wilson, “Like a Fading Rainbow” (Van Rivers Remix)
- story THE FADER
Apparently fancy dresser, mother and famous musician Jenny Wilson has nothing better to do than sit at her laptop and make crazy face videos with lace mesh monster fabric. We want to video chat with her so bad, but we would need to know in advance so we could wear a special outfit and get our moves right.
Video: Jenny Wilson, “Like a Fading Rainbow”
- story THE FADER
When our style editor came back from Copenhagen Fashion Week a few months ago and passed us a copy of Soundvenue, Denmark’s closest thing to FADER, we could not believe we did not know the crazy lady with the scarves on the cover. It was Jenny Wilson, of course, Swedish powerhouse and total unknown in America. We’ve since become enamored with her bold colors and hard romance, plinky sounds and dragon song. This video for “Like a Fading Rainbow,” one of our favorite tracks from her recent second solo album, Hardships, is monumental and completely exemplary of her grandiosity of vision— a little Terrence Malik, a little Blazing Saddles, a little “I think this lady might shank me and I might like it.” Watch it above if you’d like, but we recommend taking the time to watch it in crystal clear widescreen. The blue on that hat is incredible.
