“I have this theory that if New York wants you in the city, it’s going to keep you,” Hank Heaven says with a knowing smile while reclining on a couch in The FADER office. The Hudson Valley-born, New ...

Everything you need to know about distribution, from uploading your first track to claiming your artist profile on the other side.

Listen to a new FADER Mix by Trippie Redd and skaiwater producer 9lives with songs by Playboi Carti and Lil Shine.

This summer, NYC's music scene is truly global. Drake dominates the citywide charts, while Brooklyn loves K-pop and Manhattan ...

The sun was sinking behind the Chicago skyline as I waited for Snow Strippers to come out at Lollapalooza. After a sweltering Thursday that I swore gave me heatstroke after just five minutes of ...

Arca's first album in five years is both a pivot and return. In 2020, she expanded her world building into epic, multi-part terrain with her KICK pentalogy. Those albums unfurled with lullaby-like ...

I first heard Camila Cabello’s 2024 album C,XOXO four months before its release. I was writing her PAPER cover story that would introduce the album to the world and only had three days to take it in ...

Before his final New York show, the sound chalk makes sat down for an interview with The FADER to talk about bringing songs ...

The true story of one of rap’s most defining moments, from the projects of New Orleans to the pages of Merriam-Webster. In the early 2000s, an animated MTV spot cheekily illustrated the strange life ...

It’s rudimentary math that Onika=burgers, but Tiramisu=Tate Endings? Chronically online pop fans (or stans) have long had their own distinct language online, formed in the deep corners of online ...

In the basements and abandoned lots of Santiago, Chile, students of the city are raving, two-stepping, and trance-dancing to the music of a tight-knit record label: Medio Oriente. I first came upon ...