Mach Five is Corey Davis and A.Ware, an Atlanta duo who linked up as teenagers in 2007 and selected their moniker based on the “live fast, die young” attitude of the 1960s cartoon Speed R...
The swoosh of a jet engine and a propulsive bass line give rise to Savages’ lead singer Jehnny Beth’s dark story about a bird’s death by airplane engine and an extended metaphor about how...
The Chris Robinson-directed video for Nas’ “Daughters” traces the 17 years since his daughter Destiny Jones was born as seen through her eyes, from cradle to cake-grabbing birthday party ...
Travis Porter’s major label debut From Day 1 is being released today. To celebrate, the group shares this video for single “Ride Like That.” The song won’t surprise anyone fam...
Haleek Maul is a 15-year-old rapper from Barbados with an uncanny knack for dark, contemplative music, like if Drake and his island’s most famous expat, Rihanna, adopted a baby who was always s...
At his best, David Berman is one of those dudes who can break your heart or blow your mind wide open with a simple, baritone lyric. At his worst, he’ll still do that, but maybe … read mor...
Live From the Underground is Big K.R.I.T.’s debut full-length on Def Jam, fresh of the heels of his mixtape, 4evaNaDay. The album’s theatrical beats, all produced by K.R.I.T, add an extra layer...
New Orleans’ Curren$y links up with fellow leaders of the new school, Big K.R.I.T. and Wiz Khalifa for, “Jet Life.” It’s the closing track from Curren$y’s The Stoned Imm...
Digital copies of Azealia Banks’ EP 1991 are now available (physical units hit stores June 12). Hear two Machinedrum-produced tracks from the release, “Van Vogue” and “1991,” ...
Lil Wayne responded to Pusha T’s unfriendly “Exodus 23:1″ on Friday night with “Goulish,” rapping, Fuck Pusha T and anybody that love him/ His head up his ass/ I’ma have to he...
Gucci Mane delivers a new mixtape, his second of the year. Like its predecessor Trap Back, a bulk of I’m Up’s tracks are produced by Mike Will Made It. Recently Will told us that Gucci’s ...
Two months ago, Cokeola of House of Ladosha uploaded the above video, yelling over Gunplay’s track into a laptop mic with smiling eyes and bouncing shoulders, making what might seriously be the...
Just in time for the holiday weekend, here’s a fresh summer anthem from Sydney, Australia’s Catherine Kelleher bka Catcall. With its simple and infectious one, two, three! shout-along hoo...
As part of Sound Discovery, our ongoing collaboration with MSN as your guide to music festivals, we had the opportunity to spend the day with some our favorite bands. Above, watch Canadian duo Art De...
Lil Durk’s I’m Still a Hitta has become one of the more celebrated tapes in Chicago this year. Single “Wild Niggas,” produced by Durk’s frequent collaborator Paris Beuller, ep...
The ever on-point Chicago duo The-Drum have joined a small army of producers in remixing Soft Metals’ self-titled LP for a new 12-inch collection out mid-June on Sweating Tapes. The romantic sy...
There’s a great American tradition of New York being a welcoming port and FADER teamed up with Converse’s new Rubber Tracks studio in Brooklyn to further it. Once a month, we’ll be welcoming touring ...
This unreleased version of Soulja Boy and Sean Kingston’s 2008 cut “Yamaha Mama” inexplicably surfaced today, replacing the original artists with Drake and Chris Brown. As a cut from the ...
Vampire Weekend’s Chris Baio has released a new, three-song solo EP of crisp, upbeat production with a dash of wistfulness and Matias Aguayo for good measure. As Baio explains, it’s music for r...
On “Exodus,” a G.O.O.D. Music single featuring The-Dream released last night, Pusha T fires subliminal shots at an unnamed foe. The track’s target is presumably Drake, who Pusha pre...
For a new 12-inch of Lindstrom remixes, Oneohtrix Point Never goes for an ecstatic, stuttering drone collage, which truncates the original “Call Me Anytime” almost in half and makes the c...
Ampichino and Young Bossi’s Cop Heavy Gang 2: Right Back, Ain’t Cheatin’ is a sequel to their similarly-titled collaborative CD from last year. The Akron, Ohio duo aim for an emotionally-...
There are very few bands that FADER publisher Andy Cohn loves with all his heart. We know Pinback is one, but we were stoked to find that he also had a deep love for Afghan … read more »
Roc Nation, the entertainment company created by Jay-Z and Live Nation, has announced that they’ve signed M.I.A. to a management deal (she’ll maintain her record deal with Interscope). Sh...
Washing away the taste of his classical album just a day after it was released, here Lil B heads back to rapping, returning to the beat of Beanie Sigel’s all-time great track, “Feel It in...
Two of the best hip-hop groups to celebrate substance abuse, The Beatnuts and the Alkaholiks have joined forces for a joint record, “Grumpy Crocodile.” Together, The Liknuts (as they̵...
For a time in the ’80s and early ’90s, it felt like mannequins were the most popular things around. Then they got usurped by Ninja Turtles or Ghostbusters or whatever. But, like, what was up … ...
DIIV’s Zachary Cole Smith has got great taste in accessories. An eyeful of them—brassy pendant rings, friendship bracelets and chipping striped nail polish—are on display in the new video for sprawli...
Wiz Khalifa takes a pretty literal approach to the visual treatment for “Work Hard, Play Hard,” He nods to retail and construction workers, then acknowledges that the bartenders pouring y...
Faye, the new project of former Swedish girl group star Fanny Hamlin, rolls on with another single, “Water Against the Rocks,” produced by Montauk. Like “Come to Me” before it...
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