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With domestic issues weighing so heavily on every American’s mind these days, it felt appropriate to focus our sixth annual photo issue inward. We started by selecting two cover stories that represent seemingly opposing factions of this country—the values of small town America via Eau Claire, Wisconsin’s Bon Iver and the hard grind of big city life through South Central Los Angeles’ Dam-Funk—and found more common ground between them than most talking heads and politicians would care to know. For the feature photo story, Peter van Agtmael’s plaintive portraits of widespread citizens and Victoria Sambunaris’ landscapes of geological sites along Interstate 80 create a visual dialogue between man and land and will hopefully leave you asking questions rather than giving answers. And because the future prosperity of the US will depend on the dreams of its newest residents as it always has, we focused our fashion story on first generation Americans and new emigres living in New York’s five boroughs. Not to mention our regular selection of Gen F profiles, including Kris Kristofferson, The XX, Neon Indian, Kurt Vile, Kyle Hall and Warpaint, plus interviews with RZA, Janka Nabay, Andrew Weatherall and tons more. So feel free (because it is literally free) to check it all out, and if you make TheFADER.com your homepage you won’t miss our treasure trove of extras and outtakes from above and beyond the issue.

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Open Bar With Kurt Vile (Pt. 2)

This was FADER TV’s second time filming Kurt Vile (the first being Party in the Pines), and we’ve concluded that it is impossible to make this guy look anything short of badass.  He could do his taxes and we would watch it.  But instead, we had the good fortune of seeing him play some new tracks off of Childish Prodigy at Heathers Bar the day before the album was released.  And like some strange hybrid between Eddie Vedder and Farrah Fawcett, Kurt managed to simultaneously make us swoon and wonder what kind of conditioner he uses. Watch part one, then watch part two, in which Vile performs “Slow Talkers” and “Blackberry Song”—this time with less eye contact. art one

Open Bar With Kurt Vile Pt. 1

This was FADER TV’s second time filming Kurt Vile (the first being Party in the Pines), and we’ve concluded that it is impossible to make this guy look anything short of badass.  He could do his taxes and we would watch it.  But instead, we had the good fortune of seeing him play some new tracks off of Childish Prodigy at Heathers Bar the day before the album was released.  And like some strange hybrid between Eddie Vedder and Farrah Fawcett, Kurt managed to simultaneously make us swoon and wonder what kind of conditioner he uses.  Listen to “He’s Alright” here, and stay tuned for a few more songs on Monday.

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Video: Kurt Vile, “Freak Train”

Somehow this video went up on YouTube on Thursday and FADER editor Sam didn’t put it up. And today Sam is in Montreal. So theoretically, Sam hasn’t seen this video yet and probably won’t see it until at least tomorrow. By then there will be five or six hundred people who can lay claim to Sam’s title as Kurt Vile’s biggest fan, and some of those people will probably have watched the video by accident or as the result of complete boredom. And seeing as how Sam has been talking about “Freak Train” longer than maybe even Kurt Vile, it is going to be really awesome to see how that realization unfolds. As far as the video itself, the rest of us are totally down with its 120 Minutes nine dollar budget vibe and are going to buy Vile’s Childish Prodigy on vinyl today to pay tribute.

The FADER Issue 64 Podcast MP3

For our annual photo special, we focused our sights on issues in contemporary America through the stunning domestic and landscape photographs of Peter van Agtmael and Victoria Sambunaris. And who better to reflect the state of the States than Bon Iver, who’s attained cult fame worldwide but prefers to live in the sleepy Wisconsin town of Eau Claire, and Dam-Funk, who resides in middle class South Central Los Angeles but whose music inspires funk utopias. Hence the roster of our latest issue podcast, including Family Band, Volcano Choir, Dam-Funk, Neon Indian, Kyle Hall, Warpaint and Kurt Vile, represents all corners of the USA’s urban decay and rural ramshackleness—with the exception of Fuck Buttons, whose new album is so galactic we think they might be ambassadors from another universe. Download the whole shebang below, and don’t forget to permanently blogline us since we’ll soon be dropping the entire issue on you in pdf form, for free—because in the immortal words of George Michael, you’ve got to give what you taaaaake.

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Stream: Kurt Vile’s Childish Prodigy

Finally! For the last couple months we’ve been walking around talking about Childish Prodigy like you could just walk in the store and grab it right off the shelves, which is totally not the case. Although the album doesn’t come out til October 6th (see also: really, really soon), Matador is offering a full stream of the record. Now when you hear people talking about freak trains and hunchbacks you won’t automatically think it’s some kind of dubious Halloween thing and instead will know that it is just us talking about a couple awesome songs from an album full of megajams. We’ve said it many times before, but Kurt Vile’s Childish Prodigy is out October 6th, and right around the same time comes FADER 64, featuring a Gen F on Vile alongside a lot of other incredible stories. Listen below and buy here.

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Matador Just Posted Like Every Kurt Vile Video Ever

To ramp up for the release of Kurt Vile’s swirling, introverted, guitar-melting Childish Prodigy, Matador has been posting every live video of Vile they could find on the internet. Call it a press campaign (because that’s what it is), but it’s also a great way to catch jammier versions of familiar songs as well as completely new ones. Also! Kurt Vile appears in the upcoming FADER #64, so stay tuned to this site for more details on Vile as well as the issue, and buy Childish Prodigy before it comes out October 6th.

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Video: Kurt Vile, “He’s Alright” & “Breathin Out”

It’s a good thing we like Kurt Vile’s music so much, because he’s turning out the jams almost faster than we can listen to them. Here he is again in a video shot by the dudes of Yourstru.ly. Popping up in what looks like someone’s house in San Francisco, he runs through the until now unheard “He’s Alright,” (which you can grab for free on 7-inch when you pre-order his album), has a couple sound problems and then pretty much makes us feel bummed that we weren’t there. Vile is playing about a million shows between October and November, check the tour dates after the jump and then catch him when he comes through your city.

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Kurt Vile, “Hunchback” MP3

As far as Kurt Vile songs go, “Hunchback” is on the rockier end of the spectrum—guitars spiraling endlessly while Vile mumble-yelps stuff about having a hunchback as big as a humpback whale. The song has been floating around for a bit, initially appearing on the Kurt Vile and The Violators 7-inch, then popping back up again as the opening track to Vile’s psychedelic head-trip next album Childish Prodigy, which you can pre-order here.



Download: Kurt Vile, “Hunchback”

Party in the Pines at Big Sur, Part 2: Kurt Vile

We spent this past weekend at Party in the Pines, a low-key festival in a sun-dappled northern California forest presented by Kemado Records, Mexican Summer and (((folkYEAH!))).  FADER TV captured all of the many ultra-lax musicians on hand—Kurt Vile, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Dungen, Saviours, Vietnam and more—and will somehow put up all the footage this week if we don’t decide to just linger on forever in hazy Big Sur. If there is a better way than this to bid summer one last hurrah, let us know. In part two, we talk to Matador’s newest wild rocker Kurt Vile and watch him intensely strum material from his upcomiing album, Childish Prodigy.

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