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There's not a ton of info about Chromeo's forthcoming appearance on Yo Gabba Gabba! other than this incredible photo they just posted on their MySpace. But we're gonna go out on a limb and hypothesize that, even if Dave and Pee's guest appearance doesn't reach Stevie on Sesame Street levels of children's broadcasting excellence (jeez, could anything?), it will rank about even with previous YGG! cameos, which have included the likes of Biz Markie and Paper Rad, and be waaaaaaay more fun for the youth of today than REM singing with Telly Monster.

Now that summer's here and you've read our totally conveniently released (and titled) summer music issue, you're probably looking for some music to listen to while you eat ice cream in the park or ride the train in the evening. Well, crack the windows wherever you are, because we've got heaters upon heaters upon heaters contained within this podcast. Including the music of polar opposite, yet both awesome cover stars Estelle and Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, Crookers' over the top club music, the new NYC hitmakers Sean C & LV and Ryan Leslie, the dark pop of Abe Vigoda, cumbia's new low-fi dance scene and a solid selection of Gen Fs, including Whalebones, Windsurf, 77Klash and a lot more.

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Every week resident FADER selector Eddie STATS runs through dancehall riddims and other artifacts from the ghetto archipelago.

Greetings from beautiful Jamaica, land of wood and water and mastodon speaker cabinets. Much of the breezeblock conversation I’ve been having with music biz persons since I’ve been Kingston, posted up against the side of a van in the yard of Jammy’s studio in Waterhouse or over a Q of Appletons on the terrace at Medusa’s has to do with how the traditional avenues of bussing an artist in dancehall—riddims, 45s, soundclashes—are phasing out. more...

According to this new mix from We Make It Good, Sinden has the illest CD-R collection known to man. Basically everything on here is from the future and he has it on a CD-R. Not that we care, but Sinden knows who Fake Blood is and everyone is always asking about that. We don't actually care though, because good music is good music and there is a lot of it here and it is free. Check out the track list and also comments from Sinden where he says like two words about every song and it seems really exciting anyway.

Download: Sinden's We Make It Good Mix

Two decades after the second summer of love, and what a strange old place Ibiza is in 2008. All credit to the first generation of acid house hippie Balearicos, who are still clinging on grimly in the face of mass package-deal club tourism. Occasionally you get a glimpse of what Ibiza must have been like before Easyjet and Judge Jules: moments after I took the above picture in the shed round the back of Pacha where they keep all the cherries, a statuesque woman, looking EXACTLY like the model on the poster except with cropped, peroxide hair and wearing a shimmering olive dress, appeared from nowhere and wandered into the recesses of the empty club, swinging her expensive handbag. I fumbled for the shutter, but she’d gone. In that moment, Pacha almost felt as exotic as it once must have been, but the truth is that now, it looks a lot sexier empty than it does when it’s crammed full of sunburned Brits and average house music. more...

We're not sure who Ron Browz thinks he's fooling disguising his voice so poorly, but we know the dude responsible for producing "Ether" when we hear him. Especially when he yells "Etherboy" on the intro. And having been a part of one of the most disrespectful records in the history of recorded sound, it’s good to hear Browz making a joyful noise. Set to release his Etherboy mixtape next month, Browz drops “Pop Champagne” just in time for those still confused about what to do with those stimulus payments. Between aiding economic restabilization and a well documented history of mentoring of Harlem youth, Browz is a man of the people not named Jay-Z.


Download: Ron Browz, "Pop Champagne"

So is this song about Kid Cudi hugging Lil Wayne? HA...Because Lil Wayne is a martian, you know? Yeah we thought it was a lame joke too. Seriously though, there is one thing about this song that make it a no-brainer post, and that is CROOKERS, who, besides appearing in our summer music issue are also responsible for songs that make us kick the air and run around a lot. We weren't expecting them to make a beat that didn't sound like balls of lightning or something, but they calmed down a bit for this one because Kid Cudi is just trying to get you to accept him, which is actually kind of nice if you think about it. He's a new artist dudes, embrace him! This comes from Crookers' Mad Kidz EP, coming soon.


Download: Crookers f. Kid Cudi, "Embrace the Martian" (via 2dopeboyz)

In the past we would've given the nod to Devendra for best song titles, especially when he first told us Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon was going to be called Jewish Anarchy, but Brightblack are taking a shot at the champ on their new album Motion To Rejoin with titles like (obviously) "Hologram Buffalo", "Summer Hoof", "Past A Weatherbeaten Fencepost", "A Rainbow Aims" and "When Beads Spell Power Leaf". WHEN BEADS SPELL POWER LEAF. We're actually going to change the name of this magazine to Caterpillar Wonk and just eat mushrooms in the park all day. It might not read that great, but we won't be in this world when they fire us anyway. So…this is the promo video for the first single off Motion and yes, we will be watching it all day every day until the album is delivered by centaurs on September 9th.

Brightblack slideshow from FADER 39

Our regular column on dancehall Ghetto Palms is on hiatus (ED: Stats came through with a column!) this week because its writer Eddie 'Stats' Houghton is off hiatus writing a story in Jamaica for us. So if you've come here for that, please accept the new video for FADER 23 coverstar Beenie Man's chart-dominating #1 smash "Wine Gal" as a consolation. "Wine Gal" was at the top of Jamaican charts for a few weeks, battling it out with Mavado's "On The Rock" and Jr Gong's "The Mission" and slipped all the way to #3 this week, but knowing how these things go, it might be back up top next week. And also, just because, ZAGGA ZOW.

The FADER Summer Music Issue is the issue where we throw all the hottest of heatrocks into our glossy mag in anticipation of the days when we'll be standing outside eating ice cream or whatever and multiple cars will go by, all playing the songs that are contained between the pages of our magazine. On the front cover we have the undeniable Estelle, poised to become the next megastar and dropping catchy jam after catchy jam, and on the flipside we've got Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, there because he creates lush pop songs for the 4am train rides slash ultra introspective moments that come at the tail end of every night. In between those covers we've got Diddy's next producers Ryan Leslie (you know you love "Diamond Girl") and Sean C and LV, who are responsible for pretty much every banger coming out of New York lately. We've also got a feature on the bedroom dance music of Cumbia, Abe Vigoda's summertime melancholy and Crookers' next level raveups. And all that comes withouth us even mentioning our Gen F lineup, featuring profiles on the summeriest of summertime bands Windsurf, Lindstrom's endless space disco, 77Klash's dancehall/everything hybrid and Whalebones' Seattle folk among a whole bunch of other stuff. We know we say this pretty much constantly, but you can download this for free, as in ZERO dollars, as in no money. It doesn't get better than that.

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Each Tuesday, FADER editor Matthew Schnipper highlights an underappreciated recent release he thinks we need to know about. This week it's Black Eyes' Cough. Listen to "Commencement" below, buy Cough here and read about it after the jump.

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Listen, it'd take a lot of money or precipitous decline in our social lives to watch the Carson Daly Show, but apparently The Game was on it talking about getting a tattoo of Obama's face on his back. Sounds like a great idea. We will probably just vote, but power to the people and all that. Maybe Game's new ink buddy Travis Barker will get a Jim Webb piece on his calf or something. Democracy in Action! As long as they keep making songs like this one, they can do whatever they want. (via Dubcnn-nice tag)


Download: The Game f. Travis Barker, "Dope Boys"

In this short video about Dyme Def they rap lyrics off their Blackberrys. FUTURISTIC. No but for real, some of the shit on this mixtape is pretty next level. From the stadium synths of "That Shit's Knockin," to the highly Timbo influenced "I Got You" featuring Young Buck. We'd lay all the praise on Seattle producer Bean One, but we gotta give the dudes in Dyme Def credit too. We've said this before, but rap could benefit from a little fun sometimes and usually we're vague about how exactly that could be accomplished, but they rap over the Pinky & The Brain theme, and we're pretty sure that is very close to the definition of fun. Download the mixtape below, and watch the short doc up above.