Tagged: XL Recordings
By the Numbers: Jai Paul’s Leaked Demos
In By the Numbers, FADER looks at a big record release and breaks it down in basic digits. This week, we tackle Jai Paul’s leaked demos/mixtape/album that mysteriously appeared Saturday night, then vanished. The story … read more »
MoMA PS1′s Warm Up 2012 Lineup
Judging from MoMA PS1’s Warm Up lineup, we will once again be spending our summer Saturdays sweaty and stoked in the courtyard of MoMA PS1. This year we’ll be shaded (and the air will be … read more »
Dollars to Pounds: SBTRKT
Dollars to Pounds is a bi-weekly column with a look at the best of what’s happening in the UK. This week we introduce D2P’s new writer, Kim Taylor-Bennett. SBTRKT writes his best music in the … read more »
This Week in London: Prince William Getting Married, Tyler Crowned King
The new label-owners in Odd Future landed in London a couple hours ago. Tyler‘s arriving to open arms—he’s decked in Crown Jewels on the cover of this week’s NME and got a new iPhone from … read more »
Odd Future Sign a Group Record Deal, Music Business Now More “Fun and Different”
Odd Future have been posting fully-formed records to their Tumblr since last February. Since, they’ve appeared in FADER 71 and on MTV, met Justin Bieber, performed on Fallon and with Diddy in Austin and at … read more »
Video: Gil Scott Heron, “I’m New Here”
A stripped-down acoustic session for the title track from Gil Scott-Heron‘s latest is exactly right—the song, a Smog cover, is so plaintive and weathered, so resolutely human. When he looks directly into the camera, it’s … read more »
