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  • NYC: East Village Radio Festival (UPDATE: MOVED TO SUNDAY)

    2 days ago — While doing our weekly radio show The Let Out in the cozy, mirrored studio at East Village Radio, we routinely bump into friends, artists, readers, listeners and crazy people. We talk shit, play records, dance and loiter on the sidewalk for two hours during what has become a Friday night microcosm of all that The FADER stands for: good music, good times and an open mind.

  • Stylee Fridays: Lorick's Spring 2009 Wonderland

    3 days ago — Ask any fashion person in New York how they are doing at the moment and they will probably say something like this: "Oh I'm shattered, I really should have worn flats and I'm surviving on three Kombuchas a day. It's fashion week darling, snooooze!" But you kind of had to leave all the nonchalance, any waves of exhaustion or other feelings of fashion fatigue at the door of Lorick's Spring '09 presentation yesterday evening.

  • Freeload: NeYo f. Fabolous & Jamie Foxx, "She Got Her Own (Miss Independent Remix)"

    3 days ago — Make no mistake, we're fully literate in this piece, but when we first heard the opening sample for "She Got Her Own," we were pretty much hoping it had been the Heatmakerz who'd kidnapped Cam'ron all along, and sent this as a mislabled Protools file. Instead we get NeYo dressed up as Ralph Tresvant and Fab finally repaying that "Make Me Better" favor.

  • Audio: Gang Gang Dance on Street Carnage Radio

    3 days ago — For all those of you who still think Gang Gang Dance are a bunch of freaky downtown weirdos, their new album Saint Dymphna is about to blow your puny, tight-assed brains (yes, your ass-brain is TIGHT). It comes out in October and we'll have more to say about it, but in the meantime, the gentlemen over at Street Carnage have put up the latest episode of their podcast, with guest DJ Lizzie Bougatsos, who plays a bunch of songs that are quite obviously influences on GGD and a few new jams from Saint Dymphna and her other band IUD (dual metal drumming badassedness).

  • Contest: Koushik x Stones Throw Prize Pack

    3 days ago — We've come up with a new term to describe Koushik's Out My Window LP coming out in September on Stones Throw: Crushing Hangover Soul. We used to think he was more ideal for the actual experience, but his soft voice, blissful sampling and mellow drums are in fact much better for dealing the day after.

  • Live And Direct: It's Still Hot

    3 days ago — This week on The Let Out, our weekly East Village Radio show (made possible by Dewars) we'll be back in full effect, playing music and bantering like we've never bantered before. You can listen live at eastvillageradio.

  • Freeload: Passion Pit, "Sleepyhead" + Interview

    3 days ago — We've been cranking Passion Pit's "Sleepyhead" for a good long minute, but it wasn't until last week that we had good reason to put it up for download. One of our favorite music blogs, Good Weather for Airstrikes, gave up the grind of talking about music for the grind of putting it out on their new label Neon Gold Records, and "Sleepyhead" is their first 7-inch release.

  • Grateful Dead Probably Play Rally For Obama

    3 days ago — The FADER rumor mill stays cranking away, so when news comes across our desks that the as-close-to-original-as-possible lineup of the Grateful Dead are reuniting to play a rally for Obama on October 11th in State College, PA, we're already packing our bags (one drug rug, two hacky sacks, three frisbees) and getting ready to follow the band on their massive one-date tour. Actually, this is really awesome because in our minds like 30 million people are Deadheads, and if all 30 million of those people vote—not saying who they'd vote for—then we are pretty much guaranteed a decent next four years.

  • Video: The Jim & Derrick Show

    3 days ago — We've been thinking a lot about the ’90s this week, but this new episode of The Tim & Eric Awesome Show could be this decade's equivalent of The Simpson's "Poochie The Dog" extreme satire. Watch part one above, and part two here.

  • Freeload: Johnson & Jonson, "Up All Night"

    3 days ago — Johnson & Jonson is our boy Blu from LA and producer Mainframe, and their new self-titled album coming out September 23rd on Tres Records has actually "been out" for almost a year as the leaked Powders & Oils, initially meant as a mixtape but turned out too good to not be properly released. It's full of soul-sample-heavy production and Blu's dependably entertaining raps, and, if we didn't think it would wrinkle our Steven Alan shirts, we would absolutely go buy a new Jansport and wear it everywhere, even on dates, assuming we could get one.

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