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Beat Construction: Mala in Cuba
Dubstep pioneer Mala recorded his lastest album, out September 11th on Brownswood Recordings, in Cuba. Find an exclusive stream of the LP below, followed by Daniel Arnold’s story on how it came...
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World Premiere! The FADER #82 Featuring French Montana and Tame Impala
Next time you go to Morocco, look up French Montana’s uncle. He played quite a host to photographer Michael Schmelling and writer Zach Baron as they accompanied French on his return to the country of …...
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Tame Impala, “Elephant (Canyons Wooly Mammoth Remix)” MP3
“Elephant,” the new single from FADER #82 cover stars Tame Impala, is rendered extra trippy by fellow Aussies and Modular labelmates, Canyons. The lumbering intro is stretched to a hypnotic length, the...
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French Montana: Homecoming
French Montana returns to Morocco. Outside Casablanca’s Mohammad V airport, there are dusty palm trees and low bushes prickly with violet flowers. Vapor from the nearby Atlantic Ocean spreads out in a...
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Footnotes: French Montana
Footnotes is the section in our magazine where we take a deeper look at the music surrounding our feature artists. Read Zach Baron’s FADER #82 cover feature on French Montana, and check out our notes …...
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GEN F: Tommy Lee
The start of August was a time of great cheer in Jamaica this year, as events commemorating 50 years of independence blended with spontaneous celebrations of its sprinters’ Olympic dominance. But the...
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Personal History: Benjamin Lebrave
For the past four years, Benjamin Lebrave has run Akwaaba, a digital record label that releases a huge amount of diverse African music from across the continent. He started the label in San Francisco,...
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Footnotes: Akwaaba
Footnotes is the section in our magazine where we take a deeper look at the music surrounding our feature artists. With Benjamin Lebrave’s label, Akwaaba, and his column for TheFADER.com, we don’t have...
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Four years ago my friend Kevin and I went on a trip to La Paz, the capital city of Baja Del Sur, Mexico. It’s difficult to get there direct, so we flew into Los Cabos … read more »
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Environments: Boiler Room Goes International
In the endless debate as to whether or not the internet helps or hinders our ability to connect as human beings, we have a counterintuitive point on the pro side from Boiler Room, a private … read more »
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Tame Impala: Middle of Nowhere
Tame Impala’s desolation rock crosses over. One way to understand Perth is to read hometown hero Tim Winton’s Cloudstreet, an earthy novel about two families that occupy a great, creaky house in the...
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Melbourne’s Pet Shop Girls Imports Japanese Fashion
A little store in Melbourne exclusively carries the coolest Tokyo designers. Despite being a hub of avant-garde fashion and a Petri dish of super-wild street style, it’s still famously difficult to...
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Footnotes: Tame Impala
Footnotes is the section in our magazine where we take a deeper look at the music surrounding our feature artists. Read Sam Hockley-Smith’s cover story on Tame Impala and the rock scene in Perth from …...
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GEN F: Haleek Maul
During an early August afternoon at Best Pizza in Brooklyn, 16-year-old rapper Haleek Maul acts like an average teenager. He’s slightly timid, easily distracted and doses his iced tea with a ton of...
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Cairo: Something New
Cairo finds a voice in festival music. Ahmed Farid, aka DJ Figo, sips anise tea with his crew at an open air café in Al Salam City, Egypt. They are fresh-faced and confident, dressed in … read more »
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Matthew Miller: Street View
Matthew Miller prints a GPS map of London onto his fall collection. If you live in London, don’t be surprised if you recognize one of the graffiti scribbles or tree bark patterns that adorn Matthew …...
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What in the World is Holy Motors About?
French cinema doesn’t get much weirder than Leos Carax’s Holy Motors. To give you an idea, the film opens with the 51-year-old director waking up in the night, sprouting a drill from his middle finger,...
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Download The FADER #82 Podcast
We supplement every issue of The FADER with a podcast showcasing jams from the magazine’s featured artists, and this time, for a special global-themed issue, we scoured the globe to find them. Hear...
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GEN F: Michael Mayer
It’s easy to imagine the Kompakt Records office in Cologne, Germany, as a blindingly white room filled with office workers also dressed in white, typing away at egg-shaped computers. In the hands of...
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By the Numbers: Service
In By The Numbers, FADER looks at a big record release and breaks it down in basic digits. In FADER #82, we actually took on a record label: Gothenberg, Sweden’s Service, which, with 19 albums … read...
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Berlin’s Music Community Debates a Controversial New Nightclub Fee
Beginning in 2013, Berlin’s club scene will be subject to new fees implemented by GEMA—Germany’s largest music royalties association and a powerful non-governmental organization. A network that...
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Thandi Sibisi: Gallery Girl
Thandi Sibisi opens eyes to a new crop of South African artists. This past February, Thandi Sibisi, the 25-year-old daughter of cattle farmers from the rural southeastern province of KwaZulu-Natal,...
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GEN F: Arca
Arca is Alejandro Ghersi, a 22-year-old producer with cheerful brown eyes and a wisp of an accent that’s tough to place. “Speaking two languages fluently makes each language not so important,” he says....
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Ou Menya: A Photo Essay by Bieke Depoorter
Crashing couches along the Trans-Siberian railway Belgian photographer Bieke Depoorter doesn’t speak Russian, so she had a friend who does write this on a piece of paper: “I am looking for a place to...
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Jeddah Diary: A Photo Essay by Olivia Arthur
Olivia Arthur teaches and photographs women in Saudi Arabia. In 2009, the British Council invited Olivia Arthur to teach a two-week photography workshop to a group of women in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia....
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GEN F: A*M*E
Seventeen-year-old Amy Kabba paces the stage of an East London dive in short-shorts and vertiginous ankle boots, working the crowd to perfection with perky between-song banter and a swagger that could...
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Milleneufcentquatrevingtquatre: Ties that Bind
Milleneufcentquatrevingtquatre takes a wide view of an iconic French accessory. Their native France may be a mecca for the classic silk scarf, but Milleneufcentquatrevingtquatre designers Amelie...
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GEN F: Sapphire Slows
Sometimes it takes a brush with mortality to find your true calling. In the spring of 2011, Kinuko Hiramatsu was your average Japanese university student, preparing to graduate and hunt around for a...
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Crucial Carry-ons
Twelve indispensable items for trips around the world (or to grandma’s house for the holidays.) 1. Sprout Skincare The Full Mini Kit, $58 2. Etiquette Clothiers Ikura Trunk in Royal Blue, $32 Everest...
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Photos: FADER #82 Release Party with French Montana, Arca and DJ/Rupture
We announced FADER #83, our new issue featuring cover stars Miguel and Christopher Owens, last week. But yesterday, we looked back at FADER #82, which Hurricane Sandy prevented us from celebrating at...
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