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Watch Lunice’s Boiler Room Set, Featuring Flatbush Zombies and Mykki Blanco
The ever-amped, impish DJ Lunice opened Ray-Ban and Boiler Room’s SXSW Warehouse Broadcast in his trademark way with the mournful “RIP Trap” (formerly “RIP Swag,” when that was in vogue), followed by a spin of … read more »
Eight Musicians Explain their Signature Styles
There’s something about spending a majority of your days in the back of a tour van that makes for precise packing. If you’ve only got room in your suitcase for the essentials, you’d better figure … read more »
Festival NRMAL Announces Final Lineup
Festival NRMAL—the independent, all-ages music festival held annually in Monterrey, Mexico—has announced its full and final lineup. In addition to several up-and-coming Latin American artists, the stacked roster includes Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, DIIV, Fear … read more »
Video: Mykki Blanco, “Kingpinning” (Prod. by Brenmar)
Observe: Mykki Blanco in a Katz’ deli ballcap, dancing the Nutcracker rat king walk, hanging out the passenger window while always-slick producer Brenmar drives. The video for “Kingpinning” also co-stars Le1f, Dev Hynes, veteran video … read more »
Live: Mykki Blanco at Mercury Lounge
It wasn’t until I arrived out of the cold into the sardine-can confines of the Mercury Lounge’s front room last night that I realized how unusual it felt to be catching a Mykki Blanco set … read more »
Preview Emily Kai Bock’s New York Rap Documentary
Emily Kai Bock, the Montreal-based director behind Grimes’ “Oblivion” video and one of FADER’s 12 to Watch in 2013, profiled Mykki Blanco, Angel Haze and Pro Era member C.J. Fly in a documentary about New … read more »
Video: Autre Ne Veut f. Mykki Blanco, “Counting”
Imagine you’re an ailing octogenarian in intensive care and Autre Ne Veut and Mykki Blanco are the internists on call at your death bed. Depending on your mental state, their scrubbed-up soul-rap would either be … read more »
By The Numbers: Mykki Blanco’s Cosmic Angel: The Illuminati Prince/ss Mixtape
In By The Numbers, FADER looks at a big record release and breaks it down in basic digits. This week, we tackle Mykki Blanco‘s shapeshifting debut mixtape, Cosmic Angel: The Illuminati Prince/ss Mixtape, which you … read more »
Download Mykki Blanco’s Cosmic Angel: The Illuminati Prince/ss Mixtape
After much teasing, Mykki Blanco’s debut mixtape arrives with a title wordy enough to make Fiona Apple proud. Stylistically, Blanco is apt progeny for his outer-borough predecessors, like he was raised on a strict diet … read more »
Stream: Mykki Blanco, “Kingpinning (Ice Cold)” (Prod. by Brenmar)
Mykki Blanco will release a new mixtape, Cosmic Angel: The Illuminati Prince/ss, this Friday. “Ice Cold,” featuring a rattling cascade of hollow bamboo knocks and mutant owl whistles from “Wavvy” collaborator Brenmar, is a first … read more »
