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There's so much in our summer music issue that we can barely contain it all. From Estelle's breezy pop to Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson's depressed anthems, to Crookers' out of control Italian raves. From the new cumbia of Buenos Aires to the next crop of NYC hitmakers Sean C & LV and Ryan Leslie to Abe Vigoda's LA melancholy—it's all in between our glossy covers. That's not even mentioning our stellar Gen F lineup and all the other stuff packed into the mag that is going to make our summers.

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    Freeload/Video: Magistrates, "Make This Work"

    If you're not currently reading our weekly columns, you're probably missing out on heatrocks (?) like this one from the Essex-bred Magistrates, who just signed to XL Recordings in the UK. Sam Richards wrote about these guys back in April in his Dollars to Pounds column, and we have been playing the hell out of "Make This Work" ever since. XL mixed and mastered that demo version and just put it up on the Magistrates official site along with the song's video. If you like split-screens and falsettos, this is going to make your day. If you live in the UK, Magistrates are going to make some other day because they're playing a bunch of shows there in July and August. Check the dates at their MySpace and check XL Recordings next month for details on the release of the "Make This Work" single.


    Download: Magistrates, "Make This Work" (requires email sign-up)

    posted in Music, Audio, Video    tags: freeload, Magistrates, rock    07/16/2008
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  • Video: Fonzworth Bentley f. Kanye West, Andre 3000 & Sa-Ra, "Everybody"

    Yeah, we'll be stealing every single move from this video and wearing eyepatches on our third eyes. Thanks 3 Stacks. "Everybody" is the surprise video from Fonzworth's long-gestating C.O.L.O.U.R.S. album, which apparently has a pretty big budget judging by this video and will hopefully have guest spots from all of these guys on several songs. Whether we ever find out is whole other enchilada, but this is pretty great in the meantime. (We got it from Kanye)

    posted in Music, Video    tags: Andre 3000, Fonzworth Bentley, hip hop, Kanye West, Sa-Ra    07/16/2008
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  • Video Premiere: DRI, "Two Are One"

    Since stumbling upon blonde Kansan DRI and her Smoke Rings album late last year, we have taken every opportunity to bring her around and let people know that she is one of our favorite ladies in music right now. We had her at the FADER Fort in Texas this year where she played a keyboard with one hand and a beer with the other. She also performed at our Issue 54 party in a dollar sign minidress. And now we have this brand new video to debut for "Two Are One", the first song on Smoke Rings. It is soft and subtle, as usual, so we can't employ our usual ALL CAPS and "awesome jams" descriptors, but trust us, we are excited to have it. And we're also excited that the album is going to get re-released in October with a bonus remix EP. And as if all that weren't enough, Dri will be joining both Conor Oberst and Handsome Furs on their respective tours for some dates in July and August, so if our word is not bond enough, you can see for yourself how rad she is.

    posted in Music, Video    tags: Dri, rock    07/15/2008
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  • Video: Keri Hilson, "Energy"

    Uh, ZAGGA ZOW. Insert nine-hundred bad boxing double entendres here. FADER 51 covergirl Keri Hilson beats up our will to blog about anything else today with this new video directed by Melina (featured in FADER 52), the mastermind behind Snoop's "Sexual Seduction" clip.

    posted in Music, Video    tags: Keri Hilson, r&b    07/15/2008
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  • Video: Ratatat, "Flynn"

    Ratatat have been known to soundtrack a vast array of moments that make up the whirlwind that is our lives (up to and including the period where we could not ever stop adding an extra "at" onto the end of "Ratatat"). Amidst all of their gummy guitar jams and really addictive remixes, the dudes sometimes slow it down, as they do on "Flynn" from LP3. Recently, they have also taken to making videos on what we imagine is an elaborate set-up of VCRs hardwired to Commodore 64s through a half-eaten cheeseburger sitting in an ashtray.

    posted in Music, Video    tags: electronic/dance, Ratatat, rock    07/14/2008
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  • Audio/Video: Keys To The City Presents Philadelphia

    If you have not been to Philly do not fret because after you watch approximately 92 trillion videos from Diplo & his Mad Decent crew as well as The Roots, look at some slideshows, listen to an exclusive Mad Decent mix and hear Diplo talk about the history of Philly DJs, you can pretend you are from there and no one will be the wiser. Seriously though, go here. and check out the vast amount of digital media that represents a small fraction of the music from Philly. Also, above watch as Diplo talks about Schoolly D and Jazzy Jeff on an ugly couch.

    posted in Music, Audio, Video    tags: electronic/dance, hip hop, Mad Decent, Philly, The Roots    07/14/2008
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  • Video: Radiohead, "House of Cards"

    First they put their entire album up on the internet for free download and now they’ve made the video for “House of Cards” without cameras and boy are we excited to talk about this at parties for the next couple years. This video has been internetted to death already, but here: It was made by capturing the shapes and relative distances of physical objects by shooting lasers at them from a scanner mounted on something that looks like a steady-cam. Scanner! Lasers! What?! This shit is crazy. We watched the "making of" video too but still really don’t understand how one can “remake geometry” or how this process works at all. And of course Yorke had to get all deep on us, saying some stuff about how the transformation of people into mathematical points is “strangely emotional," like, the collision of the mechanical and the human reveals the true depth of the soul when not touched by technology, or something. Just don't watch too closely, you could go as blind as a Russian raver.

    posted in Music, Video    tags: Confusing Technology, Radiohead, rock    07/14/2008
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  • Video: Prodigy, "Illuminati"

    Watching a bobblehead CGI Prodigy get braided in "Pangea" with Noam Chomsky talking about national ID cards is similar to the experience of falling down and cutting your arm up and then staring at it like it isn't really your arm. It's a kind of disembodied wonder for a couple of seconds, like "Hey weird, this doesn't hurt" and then the endorphins wear off and you cry.

    posted in Music, Video    tags: hip hop, Prodigy    07/14/2008
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  • Audio/Video: Mavado, "On The Go (Faster Than Bullet)"

    The last time "music" and "Olympics" were used in the same sentence, Tiësto was DJing the opening ceremony of the 2004 Athens games (as we were trying to keep down our souvlaki). Fortunately, the tunes for this year's Bejing games are looking a lot more FADER-y, if this moody new Mavado joint (and its behind-the-scenes video) exclusively recorded for JA sprinter Asafa Powell's Nike+ training mix is any indication. We movin like di light/ Jamaica have di fastest man inna life/ Faster than car or bike... It's so good we'll refrain from ending with a Cool Runnings joke. Sike - it's bobsled time!

    posted in Music, Audio, Video    tags: dancehall, Mavado, Olympics    07/14/2008
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  • Video: Nas, "Sly Fox"

    If you caught this video when Fox News world premiered it last week, like we did, you witnessed the incredible when Bill O'Reilly and Nas overcame their differences in the name of open and honest dialogue and declared "Sly Fox" a fair and balanced rap song. It was so incredible that it didn't actually happen. The video, directed by Rik Cordero, is just coming out now, and it seems like Nas has been keeping this one in the chamber since the Virginia Tech performance controversy went down last summer. Nas, it's cool that you're able to get all this off your chest, but narrow your scope. Spread the conspiracy wealth over three or four songs. Is this song about Fox News or "The Matrix Doctrine"? Can we not talk about The Matrix in rap anymore? Apparently it's here to stay. Still, it wouldn't be Nas without tangents, and there's one here that ends with a donation to PBS. Got yourself a totebag!

    posted in Music, Video    tags: hip hop, Nas    07/11/2008
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  • FADER TV: Soiled Mattress & The Springs Blow Up

    Awhile back we hit up downtown jazzers Soiled Mattress and the Springs to see if they would make some kind of cool video for us. They were totally into it, and worked for awhile on it—presumably because they were really busy with stuff like going on tour with No Age. Well, wait no more because last night they hit us off with this video that reminded us that they are awesome and also made us think about the dangers of fire (it's hot). It's actually a little sad, because the band has decided to call it quits after their final show at The Yard next to the Gowanus Canal this Saturday (where they'll be playing with Soft Circle, Crystal Antlers, High Places, Abe Vigoda and about 100 other bands.) Drummer Aviram Cohen and keyboardist Peter Schuette are continuing on as Silk Flowers along with Ethan Swan of Car Clutch, and we imagine Matthew Thurber will probably keep doing what he's doing, which is hanging out with Picturebox dudes and making crazy art and comics. Check out the massive lineup for the all day event at The Yard after the jump. Whew. We feel like we just mapped out every band ever in a single blog post. more...

    posted in Music, Video    tags: experimental, FADER TV, jazz, Soiled Mattress and the Springs    07/10/2008
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  • Video: Beck, "Gamma Ray"

    We were pretty unexcited by Beck's decision to dump FADER contributor Mario Hugo's cover designs (see all of his cover concepts on his site), but this video is a little more visually encouraging than the eventual Modern Guilt album art so we'll give him another chance. Not to mention that the actual music on Modern Guilt is pretty great, especially considering we put this dude on the cover with D'Angelo nearly ten years ago. Maybe we'll put them both on the cover again now that D is back in the studio with Raphael Saadiq and John Motherfucking Mayer. Or maybe we'll put a kitten on the cover. Stay tuned!

    posted in Music, Video    tags: Beck, rock    07/10/2008
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  • Video: Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, "Buriedfed"

    Judging from this video for "Buriedfed," Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson's mammoth folk burner, he does not have very much style, and neither do his friends. Look at the cop in the background, look at the doctor. Why are they all lip synching? The point of a successful costume is to imitate keenly, not belie their model. But that's reassuring, an uncomfortable Miles with his arm twisted into video performance. Maybe he's not good at much else aside from being an unfortunately miserable man with a venomous catharsis running through his songs. We want the videos to get worse and the songs to get better, that's got to be the only acceptable dichotomy.

    posted in Music, Video    tags: Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, rock    07/10/2008
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  • FADER TV: Studio Time With Raphael Saadiq

    Last weekend, Raphael Saadiq opened up his wildly huge North Hollywood studio doors to our weary, sunburned selves. Tony! Toni! Toné! has been kind to this sensitive, soulful man. Amongst the pile of cool treasures amassed were: a fish tank, a guitar signed by Parliament-Funkadelic and lots of tie-dye and incense in this one room where he writes his songs. Raphael just finished mixing his latest album, done the old fashioned way (the only way, as he puts it), with vintage guitars, drum kits, and yes, Stevie Wonder. Right now, he’s at the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans, pre-screening his soon-to-be-released album to a group of 200 lucky ladies—the idea being that women talk, and talking is promotion. But before he left, we snuck a peek at the inner workings of his dark recording studio on a sunny afternoon.

    posted in Music, Video    tags: FADER TV, r&b, Raphael Saadiq    07/09/2008
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  • Video: The Verve, "Love Is Noise"

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    There are a couple FADER editors who will tell anyone within earshot that The Verve's debut album A Storm In Heaven is the best babymaking (or experimenting in college dorm rooms) music ever made. There are others who think Richard Ashcroft is a ludicrous boob, but they are wrong and are also so far down the masthead that they can be made to do menial tasks for their insolence. Although, watching this new video for the reformed shoegazers' new single, "Love Is Noise" (ludicrously boobish title), us supporters might need some backup.

    posted in Music, Video    tags: rock, The Verve    07/09/2008
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  • Video: Brendan Canning, "Hit The Wall"

    We pretty much traveled the entire spectrum of emotions while watching this video, and by traveling the entire spectrum of emotions we actually mean that at some points we were kind of disturbed (the parts with the wolf guy in the claustrophobic woods) and other times we were totally relaxed (the shots of Canning driving along a pretty scenic looking highway as the sun began to set). Disturbed or relaxed. That's it. Also, the song is pretty good too, but we already said that.

    posted in Music, Video    tags: Brendan Canning, rock    07/09/2008
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  • Video: Fleet Foxes, "White Winter Hymnal"

    There’s something vaguely religious and impenetrable about Fleet Foxes, but there is also something romantic and safe about them. So in this video for "White Winter Hymnal," when bearded clay people control the stars with the wheel of a ship that every so often starts going too fast, it makes total sense. What doesn't make sense is when claymation beards move with minds of their own, each individual strand wiggling in the wind. Creepy. After the jump check out Sam Hockley-Smith's Gen F on Fleet Foxes from F54. more...

    posted in Music, Video    tags: F54, Fleet Foxes, Gen F, rock    07/09/2008
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  • Video: Pharrell, Santogold & Julian Casablancas, "My Drive Thru"


    We realize this collabo boils down to an advertisement for Chuck Taylors, but you know, Harrison Ford did a beer commercial in Japan and we still think Han Solo is a pretty good dude. Does he even drink beer? Flockhart does not look like a beerdrinker's girlfriend is all. He also didn't act very well in that commerical. So at least these three are known to wear the shit out of some Converse and made a song that is growing on us as a pool party anthem. And man, do we suddenly want to continue to wear the Chucks we have had since forever OR WHAT?

    Download "My Drive Thru" here.

    posted in Music, Video    tags: electonic/dance, hip hop, Julian Casablancas, Pharrell, rock, Santogold    07/09/2008
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  • Video/Freeload: Tan Lines, "New Flowers"

    Sometimes we think about old style computers—fondly remembering playing Shufflepuck and generally just being wowed by the concept of a colorful moving screen that was not a television. The new video from Tan Lines (featuring half of the production/studio team Brothers, who we profiled in F53) taps into that same feeling, but puts a melancholy spin on it. Maybe it is kinda sad that we can't get wowed by Flight Simulator and a dude juggling 3D shapes anymore because that shit was awesome. If you're into the video—and if you remember the first half of the '90s you will be—you can download the song below.

    Download:Tan Lines, "New Flowers"

    posted in Music, Audio, Video    tags: electronic/dance, freeload, Tan Lines    07/08/2008
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