The FADER

The FADER is a music magazine based in New York that was founded in 1999 by Rob Stone and Jon Cohen. It covers a variety of up-and-coming music, fashion, and cultural trends. Notably, The FADER was the first magazine to be available on iTunes. It has played a significant role in bringing attention to many artists before they hit the mainstream, such as Kanye West, Bon Iver, The Strokes, Drake, The White Stripes, and more recently, Nigerian artist Davido.

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#122203

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#54037

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Apollo Frequencies: James Massiah is the new sheriff in town

1 week ago | thefader.com | Raphael Helfand

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What Conan Gray, Mannequin Pussy, and more are listening to this summer

1 week ago | thefader.com | Steffanee Wang

Six years ago, I asked a bunch of artists at New York City’s Governor’s Ball festival to tell me the songs they would be defining their summer. The findings were surprising.
SOPHIE’s reissued PRODUCT contains two bonus songs

1 week ago | thefader.com | Jordan Darville

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Daddy wants you to fund his Black horror indie instead of snow bunnies

1 week ago | thefader.com | Steffanee Wang

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Pusha T calls Travis Scott a “whore,” shares new Clipse song

1 week ago | thefader.com | Jordan Darville

The latest single from Clipse's upcoming album Let God Sort Them Out dropped today, and the final verse from Pusha T was initially the subject of a lot of online speculation.
Review: Kendrick Lamar got a conqueror’s welcome in Toronto

1 week ago | thefader.com | Jordan Darville

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Rap Blog: YL and Subjxct 5 get ready to grind

1 week ago | thefader.com | Vivian Medithi

A couple weeks ago, I was enthusiastically discussing Subjxct 5’s beats over breakfast with Laron. The New Jersey producer’s recent tape with Papo2oo4, Papaholic Vol. 1, is especially hard-knocking, perfect for booming out of car speakers. Subjxct’s sound is rooted in East Coast hip-hop without falling into naked nostalgia, pulling the sounds and textures of his youth firmly into the now.
Primavera Sound believes in pop

2 weeks ago | thefader.com | Cady Siregar

This year’s edition of Primavera Sound was an overdose of musical wealth. The Barcelona festival has always been ahead of the curve in not just understanding the range of taste of modern music fans, but respecting it: it’s a dream festival for the listener who moshes to Turnstile and knows “Pink Pony Club” by heart, or a die-hard Stereolab fan who has “Espresso” on repeat.
RXKNephew has dropped a John Fetterman diss track

2 weeks ago | thefader.com | Jordan Darville

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Primavera Sound believes in pop

2 weeks ago | thefader.com | Cady Siregar |Christian Bertrand

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