Recently added articles from The Fader:
Ed Droste is a concord chameleon.(Talk Talk)(Letter to the editor)
Jul 01, 2009; Jessica ... David Byrne is at the point in his career where he can do whatever he wants. And what he wants to do is ride his bike all over town, perform in a tutu, collaborate with Dirty Projectors and buy peanut butter at Gourmet Garage. Sounds good to us, good enough that we devoted this year's Icon ...
Top Dollar Holler.(Talk Talk)
Jul 01, 2009; ... It's come to our attention that some of you are paying big money for some of the limited records in our 7--inch series. We are giving away the mp3s for free, people! But if you are fiending that bad, do your research. Send us a note first, person who paid $83.28 on eBay for the Little ...
Editors letter.(Editorial)
Jul 01, 2009; Macia, Peter ... Whether it's due to an astrological shift, under-stimulation or seasonal mood disorder, many folks around these parts have decided recently that the summer of 2009 needs to be the "Summer of Love." They have put the phrase on party fliers and birthday invitations, and some of you may have ...
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Drug denizens: Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe move into their black acid co-op.(NWS PRNT)
Jul 01, 2009; Nnadi, Chioma ... *Of all the decrepit nooks and crannies in Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe's Black Acid Co-Op, the charred remains of a trailer blackened from the inside out might just be the scariest corner of them all. Consider the adjacent rooms, though--the seedy China Town bazaar, psychedelic geodesic ...
World famous: Amadou and Mariam is everyone's favorite band.(NWS PRNT)(Amadou Bagayoko)(Interview)
Jul 01, 2009; Nnadi, Chioma ... * When I told my mum I would be interviewing Amadou Bagayoko of Amadou and Mariam she got a little bit giddy. The Malian couple has held the hearts of world music nerds like her for ages, starting with the cassette recordings they made in a tiny studio on the Ivory Coast over 20 years ago ....
Into the light: the warm wisdom of Francis Ford Coppola.(NWS PRNT)(Interview)
Jul 01, 2009; Schnipper, Matthew ... * In an interview from 1991, Francis Ford Coppola anticipated a populist rise of Handycam filmed masterpieces from a "fat girl in Ohio" that would destroy the business of movies and return cinema to an art form. Now, 18 years later, he has transition ed from visionary to something more ...
Come together: dead weather and the dark fate of the Supergroup.(NWS PRNT)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2009; Schnipper, Matthew ... *We were surprised that Dead Weather's album, Horehound, is good. Not that it shouldn't be--the group joins brute forces Allison Mosshart of The Kills and Jack White of The White Stripes, plus two other capable dudes from less popular bands--but the concept of a rock supergroup is almost ...
American Cyclo: the good humor and relentless principles of bike snob NYC.(NWS PRNT)(anonymous blogger)
Jul 01, 2009; Macia, Peter ... * Before meeting up with the anonymous author of Bike Snob NYC--a hilariously sassy blog dedicated to the city's cycling foibles and faux pas--I stopped to note the bike lane traffic on Fourth Street and Sixth Avenue: one motorcycle, one guy pushing a Vespa, three people riding in the ...
Wave patterns: mapping the prints of African surf brand Bantu.(STYLE)(Yodit Eklund)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2009; Nnadi, Chioma ... * Having lived across Africa and now in California, designer Yodit Eklund has always been within spitting distance of the beach. She's built sandcastles in Mombassa and caught waves in Durban--although nothing, she insists, beats Dakar's Goree Island for Afro-beach culture. You can trace ...
An American man; the ageless taste of Michael Williams and a continuous lean.(STYLE)
Jul 01, 2009; Schnipper, Matthew ... * Michael Williams knows what he is talking about. The Ohio native's website A Continuous Lean--whose name derives from a nautical term for a list--is a catchall for all things men's style. The site gives equal play to tweed, metal trays, fighter planes, ties and staplers. In the year and ...
Top gear: Tim Van Steenbergen takes Theo eyewear for a spin.(STYLE)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2009; Nnadi, Chioma ... * As much as Belgian designer Tim Van Steenbergen is a fan of vintage cars, or "Old Timers" as they're known in northern Europe, he has no idea how to drive one. "I would be a danger on the road," says the license-less Antwerp native. His first collection of sunglasses for Theo eyewear ...
Lacoste.(STYLE)(Lacoste crocodile logo)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2009; Shepherd, Julianne Escobedo ... * The time-honored Lacoste alligator conjures stoic images of French class and sophistication, perhaps 1920s Coco Chanel types daintily lobbing tennis balls in gauzy dresses. But when Lacoste creative director Christophe Lemoire called on Paris-based ortbomb fashion house Andrea Crews to ...
Mister Mort.(STYLE)(suspenders)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2009; Thomson, Nat ... * Created by Mister Mort (tweed enthusiast, street style snapper) and Baron Von Fancy (utter anomaly), these wilder-life suspenders were inspired by something shockingly straightforward--a trip to the zoo. "The zookeeper's suspenders were boring next to these crazy animals and plant life," ...
Stamp'd.(STYLE)(sneakers)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2009; Hansen, Erin ... * The days of My So-Called Life are over, but the spirit of grunge is reborn with the resurgence of the era's floral patterns. The backs of downtowners everywhere will be splashed with some type of Liberty print this summer, but it's the grounded twist from Los Angeles sneaker line ...
Apolis Activism.(STYLE)(clothing line)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2009; Frank, Alexander ... * "My brothers and I grew up surfing in Santa Barbara," says Shea Parton, brand director for the California-based menswear line Apolis Activism. "Our dad gave us our first pair of Katin board shorts and told us we'd never need another." Parton extends his father's wisdom to the world for ...
Jenny Wilson's rhythm and blues.(OH MY WORD)
Jul 01, 2009; Schnipper, Matthew ... Norwegian television show recently took jenny Wilson to a carpentry studio to film her performing "Wooden Chair," the first single from her new album, Hardships. To approximate the album's heaps of organized patter, the song's instruments were translated into dowels and rubber mallets ....
Esser pops and preens.(TAKE A LOOK AT ME NOW)(Ben Esser)
Jul 01, 2009; Shepherd, Julianne Escobedo ... At first sight, Ben Esser seems like some anachronistic type of rockstar, nattily clad in plaid ska pants or suspenders and an unbeatable mod-top fade--a little bit Specials with some wayward art dude thrown in. But while you might like to imagine him kicking around the grittier parts of ...
Foreign born take it outside.(SUNBAKED)(rock band Foreign Born)
Jul 01, 2009; Bevan, David ... Last summer, the four members of Foreign Born slipped into a secluded villa nestled somewhere in the Hollywood Hills, replete with panoramic view, porch and Jacuzzi. Between hot soaks and watching Michael Phelps spin gold in Beijing, they laid down tracks for their new album, Person to ...
D-Lo and Sleepy D graze the bay pavement.(TURK AND JERK)(independent musicians)
Jul 01, 2009; Tucker, Boima ... One hot spring day in East Oakland, a crew of folks from around the way engage in a street battle. They're all rambunctious, whipping water balloons at each other and laughing, but two shirtless dread-locked brothers stand on the side giving advice to a neighborhood entrepreneur on how to ...
