Issue 32
Old friends, new friends: If you're like us, then you've been tearing up this summer with a stack of chicken tacos, a cask of bootleg gin from the Eastern Brotown Distillery, and a Sony Sport Walkman full of jams that we've been pushing on you for the last coupla months. And now that the celestial seasonings are forcing all of us to make good on our promises to stop wearing mesh around the office (NB: it was a mesh cover up more than a piece of, like, clothing), we're gifting all of the reading public with an extra extra Style Extra. Basically that means you can look forward to reams of FADER glossy dedicated to the looks you didn't know you'd be sporting this fall: from slimline tweeds to leather Destructicon hats to, y'know, casual four-armed sweatshirts. (For relaxing!)
Don't be scared though, we've also packed the issue with a mothership of musical style icons for you to use as reference points. Beyond the psychedelic swizzlehead accessories, you always knew Big Boi was on some other shit-Will Welch and Nick Barat trucked down to ATL to get the word on his new label, Purple Ribbon and the new-old-new princes of southernfunkalisticchevroletmusic, Killer Mike and Bubba Sparxxx. While they're holding court down south, Lady Sov is the latest export from blighty En to shake & break on the international internet. Eric Ducker tracked down Sov in NYC and got the essential information on the teenypopper who fucks with LA Gear, loves McDs and hates avocados. Beef up, look smart, don't sleep: FADER 33's just a couple of weeks away and we're not even lying to you like we usually do. Go Team!
ALEX WAGNER
Cover 1: Purple Ribbon
Forget outer space and the center of the earth, the MCs of Big Boi's Purple Ribbon Records take you to the funk of neighborhoods next door.
Cover 1: Big Boi
General Patton's Prayer
"The funk element needs to be heard, the live instrumentation. That's where that whole country feel in our music comes from, the whole gospel element of things. We still dealin' with all that."
Cover 1: Killer Mike
Pain & Champagne
"There's a place for everything. I like all that street shit. But I know that if that's all I give people, it's not enough."
Cover 1: Bubba Sparxxx
Bittersweet
"There were people who liked Deliverance, and I didn't want to abandon that—but if you fail at inventing something, it sort of sours you on it. So when we started recording again, I said Take me as far as you could away from that slow fucking country twangy guitar bullshit."
Cover 2: Lady Sovereign
A Common Phenomenon
"Lady Sovereign can cultivate a broad appeal because there aren't questions about her authenticity. You can't say she's not street enough because she never talks about the drug game or killing people. You can't question her political credibility because she never calls herself a freedom fighter."
Feature 1: Girls Of Grime
Not Just Hype
"A degree of madness is intrinsic in grime, but the situation was out of hand. If events had continued this way, the scene would have imploded in a fireball of testosterone."
Feature 2: Eye From The Boredoms
Galaxy Attack
"I have the desire to make music that can be felt as an entity, to make music that can move people that way. When you start listening to hard rock, it all sounds like a bunch of noise right? You can't differentiate each instrument but it feels amazing."
Feature 3: Kristín Valtysdóttir
A Life Less Ordinary
Originally, Kristín Valtysdóttir was meant only to play keys for Mum—until one day, as she put it "They said 'Why don't you sing?' And they said 'Keep singing, it sounds nice!'" and a band was born.
Feature 4: Cuizinier
Pimpin All Over The World
Asked to describe himself, Cuizinier says he's "a French gangster of love type laid back dude with a Bee Gees haircut and a tight-ass flow.
+ GEN F:
El Feco / Yummy Bingham / Odawas / Rich Boy / Matt Sweeney / Matt Costa / Nancy Whang
+ FASHION:
Heavy Lids
Style-Forward Fitteds.
+ FASHION:
The Wrong Man
Pinstriped-N-Patterned Film Noir.
+ VINYL ARCHEOLOGY:
Pass The Deutsch-y
The Best of Germaican Dancehall, Selected by NYC DJ Eddie Stats.
