The second installment of my new Fader column Dollars To Pounds is up now. This week I had a chat with the amazing Mnek, a 14-year-old pop prodigy from South London. He wrote his first song, Shawty, when he was eight (“it had the WORST metaphors and rhymes so I try not to bring it [...]
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(photo by Owen Richards) Over at our NME blog Fair Ohs were nice enough to tell us about their ferocious sub-sixty-second single, I’m A Woman I’m Your Wife. The trio also went big on our 321 questions. Check out their epic answers after the jump and sample some of their favourite tracks, from Pharoah Sanders [...]
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His Clancyness returns, stage left. “Hey, His Clancyness. Because my heart itself plays My Heart Is Full Of Woe why don’t you play some merry dump to comfort me?” “Sorry, dude. I’m still kind of bummed out myself. But I do have a rad new Nite Jewel sample…” His Clancyness – Nothing And Nowhere To [...]
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(Bullion, Paul White) FADER column time. This week I spoke to awesome beatmakers Paul White and Bullion about things that traumatised me as a child. Make sure you grab the exclusive mixes they made for us. They rule.
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(Photo by Danny North) The moments before we sleep are usually filled with dread. Tomorrow might be the day they finally catch up with us. Thankfully we now have Blue Roses to gently persuade us that everything will be OK. On this b-side from her forthcoming single she coos about calm and the sea. She [...]
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For this week’s FADER blog I spoke to Male Bonding (again) because they rule. Head over the internetlantic to grab their killer cover of Baby Gecko‘s Dino. Catch them on tour with Vivian Girls over the next couple of weeks or spend Saturday at Sexbeat‘s Radfest, where MB will be joined by lots of our [...]
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At our NME blog Radiant Dragon gamely explains his cosmic, capacious sound. Head over there to listen to Oysters from his forthcoming EP. Here we have Cloud Seeding. “It’s about the fantasy of flying,” he says, “the freedom of open skies, and wanting to share that dream with somebody else. That combined with this is [...]
01.05.09.
(Photo outtake of Micachu from F61 by Leonie Purchas via FADER) FADER‘s new Icon issue is all about David Byrne. Awesome people are interviewed because they represent different facets of his awesome personality, people like Grizzly Bear (avant pop), Theophilus London (early adapter), Dutty Artz (borderless collaboration) and Michael Bell-Smith (audio/visual). I interviewed Micachu & [...]
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His songs may sound like urgent warnings delivered from a metal cloud at the bottom of the ocean, but Gary War is a romantic at heart. “Everynight is about being completely broke and not giving a fuck because as long as you have love, nothing else matters,” he told us. “It’s about wanting to be [...]
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(Photo by Mari Sarai) “I like how people describe me as ‘synth player’. Quite literally do not know what one is. I thought a bass was a synth the other day.” Marina (& The Diamonds) is awesome. Further proof (and a brand new Shoes remix of I Am Not A Robot) at this week’s FADER [...]
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