The FADER Issue 60 Free Download
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For our Spring Style issue, we combed the earth for the bangingest shorts, skirts, skorts, vests, carry-alls and Cavalli pumps this season could possible offer. This fashion scouring sojourn had us clocking our usual frequent flier miles in places like Santo Domingo, DR, and Teotitlan del Valle where we photographed Banda Jimenez, the marching band our back cover star Zach Condon bka Beirut collaborated with for March of the Zapotec. On the front, Natasha Khan, leader of Bat for Lashes, strikes a balance between passionate changeling and deeply style inclined, as evidenced by the wolf mask she is wearing for a beret. We are spending the next 38 days with her crystalline second album Fur and Gold on repeat, and you should join us. Well, that and the rest of the bananas features we packed into this issue: Nicki Minaj! Brick Bandits! Assassin! Girls! Nite Jewel! Menswear designer Patrik Ervell! Sholi! SO much more, and SO free for download below. Keep clicking TheFADER.com for extended stories and bonus rounds, and in the meantime, read issue 60 for style inspiration or make an actual digital outfit out of it — It’s 2009!
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The FADER Issue 53 Free Download
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If you were to make a list of all the Ultimate Jams included in Issue 53 of the FADER (the real Issue 53), you’d have enough great songs to hold you over forever, or until the next issue of The FADER. We talked to Italians Do It Better flagship group Glass Candy in Portland, went to Baton Rouge to hang with Lil Boosie, drank beers in Vancouver with Ladyhawk, and hung in Brooklyn with the new guard of DFA, trancehall genius Ricky Blaze, and the dream poppers known as Telepathe. We also hit up star-in-the-making Estelle and next big thing Demarco to find out what they were up to. If that wasn’t enough, we also talked to a billion more dudes and dudettes who are making some of the most exciting music around. Check out all that stuff and a bunch more now for zero dollars (free!) below.
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The FADER Issue 52 Free Download
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For the 52nd issue of The FADER we flexed our journalistic muscles to find out what was happening with music in Africa right now—from Ghanaian hiplife to the South African Kwaito scene, to our cover features on Malawian singer/Radioclit protégé/current East London resident Esau Mwamwaya, and BLK JKS, a South African dub-metal-ska-everything quartet that we should all probably keep our eyes on in 2008. In addition, we have more of what you’d expect from the FADER, including profiles on underwater drum circle jammers High Places and a glimpse at bassline mega star in the making T2, among like a million other real exciting styles and musics and GOOD LOOKS.
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The FADER Issue 51 Free Download
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For our newest NOW issue we put Santogold and Keri Hilson on our covers, two artists who we are real excited for in 2008. Inside the issue we delved into the depths of fuzzed out Mexico City rock, the psychdelics of the Range Life record label and the deep south suburban sprawl rap of Paper Route Recordz. In addition, we talked with some of the acts that we think will be doing some exciting things this year, or at the very least creating piles upon piles of jams. There’s all that plus so much more.
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The FADER Issue 50 Free Download
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For FADER 50 we pulled out all the stops, creating a magazine that acts as an encyclopedia of our past fifty (!) issues, covering music from all ends of the spectrum and looking at the scenes that inspired us to keep listening and continue going nuts for the jams that made our magazine. We have features on the Strokes-led resurgence of New York rock, Atlanta’s rise to rap dominance, the ghetto archipelago’s overlooked influence on the songs that burned our speakers year-in and year-out, as well as a feature on how new club music flipped the game on its head and created a whole new kind of dance party. If that’s not enough, we put together a handy A-Z guide of all the things about music and art and fashion that are the building blocks of the magazine, as well as spotlighting a selection of records that influenced everything we listen to now. Wait! There’s even more! We also zoomed in on some of our favorite artists’ defining characteristics and spotlighted them in portrait form. There’s even more to be seen, so don’t hesitate to check it out!
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