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 ...

Chile's most intersting electronic, electronic collective and label with artists like Segunda Mordida, Astrophysics, and ...

Niteharts, the San Diego electronic festival curated by ISOxo and Knock2, has revealed the lineup for its second year, set for Friday, October 9 through Sunday, October 11 at Snapdragon Stadium. The ...

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 ...

Ravyn Lenae's "Potential" from her new album Blue Island begins like so much of her delicate, freewheeling tuneage. Crystalline layers of of warped guitar and warm bass create a foundation for her ...

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 ...

If one wants to understand just how far Afrobeats has come over the last decade, talk to Davido. Back in 2016, the Nigerian superstar remarked in his FADER cover story that "sometimes it can feel like ...

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 ...

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 ...