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After getting full-on booted from Bonnaroo for filming during Kanye's sunrise set, Videothing (profiled in FADER #53) took to the road to document the F Yeah Tour. Traveling the country in a bus that can run on vegetable oil with the likes of Matt & Kim, The Death Set and Monotonix. Videothing has been posting day-by-day video diaries, the most recent of which finds the motley crew in Pensecola, Florida. That happened on Tuesday, aka day eight. There will twenty-seven days to the tour. We only hope he makes it out alive.

Whoa dudes tripppppyyyyy! Jeremy Jay is squirming around like a tall tree wind, throw a couple in-camera video effects and you've got yourself a regular old 1994 type of time. Which, if you didn't know, is great. Anyway, this video is from Jeremy Jay's performance in LA at The Echo for the FADER/Fred Perry party. It may have been sweltering hot in there, but we'd do it all again in a heartbeat.

Tonight No Age continue their trend of playing weird places in LA by performing the Getty museum's "Fridays off the 405" series. (You totally have to take a tram from the parking lot to get there, it's killer.) But in even stranger news, the video for their song "Eraser" premieres tonight at 8pm on the Pete Wentz-hosted FNMTV, the new music video show on Music Television. Also premiering a video tonight: TI. Rip it weirdos!

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to jump into a rainbow? It would be this video. Oddly enough, this video also feels like getting punched in the face. We're not sure how those two things could possibly intersect, but Shy Child make it happen. If this went on for an extra five minutes it would totally be categorized as prog rock, and that is weird to think about.

The recent "best of" offerings from artists who were buzz bands in the ’90s have some neat little treasures to them. The Best of Radiohead DVD came to be without any involvement from the group, so it included Michel Gondry's creepy "Knives Out" clip that Thom Yorke apparently totally hates and wouldn't allow to be used in Gondry's Directors Label collection. But even better is D'Angelo's The Best So Far... CD and DVD set. After the jump read the best things about The Best So Far... in descending order. more...

Jimmy Tamborello's (aka DNTEL, also half of The Postal Service) Vinyl Archeology in F46 featured an Eluvium album as one of the things he would like to hear WHILE DYING. Happy Times! Eluvium makes foggy ambient music, so it's fitting that we now have a video of him playing an Explosions in the Sky song on piano in what is either a recording studio or a rec center. We featured Explosions in the Sky in issue 44, and some staff members who had a vaguely unhealthy obsession with Friday Night Lights ride for them forever, so maybe—if we watch this for long enough—we can all cry and then hug because we will have shared an experience. THE BONDING POWERS OF MUSIC ARE SERIOUS AND NOT TO BE JOKED ABOUT.

MySpace has taught me a lot of things and enriched my life in many ways. I mean, before MySpace I never realised that Lost in Translation was the best movie ever made or that George Lucas was the best director ever to step foot in this part of the galaxy. Without MySpace I wouldn't have been given the pleasure of learning that 65 per cent of the people in the world would like to meet Notorious B.I.G., John Lennon, Martin Luther King and Bob Dylan. Also thanks to MySpace (and the small detail of some audio ripping software) I have now got hold of Ghetto's "Sing For Me" (which I wrote about a few weeks back) and am putting it up here for your listening pleasure. Your ears can thank me later.


Ghetto, "Sing for Me" more...

Do you think A-Trak runs a lot? Because we do, and we think about beats a lot when we're on BOTH the track AND the treadmill (and at our desk and in the coffee line at Garden of Eden) and it's really energizing to have this motivational crescendoing rhythm scoring our laborious thigh pumps and, obvs, beat-coordinated sweating. "They hear the bass and they say whoa" is the chorus. Oh duh. Do you think A-Trak does the thighmaster?


Download: A-Trak, "Say Whoa"

Death is overrated. Even despite your collection of Italian horror films depicting bloody ghost decapitations and creepy little girls trying to suck your intestines into the teevee. Munk, this German dude who is apparently obsessed with Man Ray judging from his MySpace, understands that the junkies who live fast and die young are stinky, stupid and gross, and that living fast and dying OLD is obviously the way to go, cause then you actually have more time to play wild games. So he made a song about it and got Roman actor/auteur Asia Argento to sing on it; she sounds surprisingly riot churrrrlish (or maybe we're projecting because her new album is a picture of her HAIRY UNSHAVEN ARMPIT). The original is this awesome understated disco pop jernt, but obviously Ed Banger couldn't keep their sticky little fingaz (shout to Onyx) off it and made this electro-burpy big-room version, hopefully to remind the gel-hoarders at their raves that love rules and also, Christopher Walken is rad. Buy the whole shebang here.


Download: Munk, "Live Fast Die Old (Ed Banger All Stars Remix)"

New Killer Mike is always an occasion, whether it's a quick guest verse, or a whole entire unreleased album. "10 G's" is from I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind II, and it takes the Killer Mike as an aggressive NY-style rapper living in Atlanta idea one step further by putting him over a beat with a slowed Biggie sample and a gothic church organ. See, it's like New York and Atlanta are colliding instrumentally and vocally. Sidenote: It's not like we don't want Killer Mike to be happy, but it seems like the more annoyed and mad he gets, the better his music gets. Isn't there some kind of middle ground?


Killer Mike, "10 G's" (via 2dopeboyz)

Last month we got weird with Andrew WK. He sang improvisational songs about trying to gain weight and then everyone got up and danced in a circle. We don't exactly need to tell you that it was totally out of control. This month's installment of Get Weird (curated by ex-FADER EIC/Permanent FADER fam Alex Wagner) features some Get Weird/FADER synergy: Current issue Gen-Fer 77Klash is bringing dancehall to the museum along with DJ Rupture, who traveled to Buenos Aires to write the cumbia feature also in our summer music issue. Is there any doubt that this WON'T be fun? If you hurry, you can still buy tickets here.

Composer, wearer of fierce clothing, fast talker and immensely wonderful chef Nico Muhly made us lunch the other day. It was really good. His new album, Mothertongue, is about using your voice, which is a less fun thing to do with your mouth than eating. Especially when it's Nico Muhly who made the food for you using vegetables he bought on his Chinatown block, boxed white wine and Kedem brand garbanzo beans. He has horizon views, stories about the south and a CP30 sized air conditioner; what else could make for a better host?

Triple Six's long-delayed Last 2 Walk finally came out this past Tuesday, and it's precisely as disappointing as an entire season of Adventures in Hollyhood would lead you to expect. Are these guys in a competition with Cam to see who can fall off harder from their mid-decade heights? And if we follow that thought to it's logical conclusion, does that make Crunchy Black the Jim Jones of Hypnotize Minds? We're babbling, sorry. Still, the disc does have an inspired moment or two. "First 48" is a haunted house collaboration between Memphis old heads that doubles as an-all FADER posse cut, with Juice and Paul (F34) alongside Project Pat and Spanish Fly (both in F40), Al Kapone (F31), and Eightball & MJG (F37). The other keeper on the LP is "Rollin," where Lil Wyte raps about ecstasy over a piano riff that sounds like the outro to a Faith No More song, but we couldn't plug back issues if we linked that one.


Download: Three 6 Mafia f. Project Pat, Spanish Fly, Al Kapone, Eightball & MJG, "First 48"

There's a million other websites where bummed journos and fantasy league record execs will talk to you about how the industry has completely shit the bed. We try to stay PMA about the whole thing, but label dudes! Get on your job! We had to find out about B.O.B.'s debut EP from Eminem's manager's blog (?!?!?) and it took us by complete surprise. This guy has buzz! A tastemaker fanbase! An LRG ad! Homey can't get a widget and some promo emails? We're gonna exhale, then direct you first to iTunes, where you can grab B.O.B's 12th Dimension (featuring his Amy Winehouse-sampling "Grip Your Body" and three other singalongs), then to our Gen F profile on him from F49.

In our minds there isn't really a better way to start a morning than a mix that includes Neil Young, The Rapture and also lots of those rubbery space disco zaps. Fred Cherry of Hole in the Sky records—a label that has released everything from the basement psych rock of Tame Impala to weird downtempo to Canyons' grooved out cosmic disco—is the first in a series of mixes we're presenting exclusively on thefader.com from the Red Bull Music Academy at the Sonar Festival in Barcelona. Stay tuned for more live mixes right here on this site.