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BRAT’s hot-pink hell

New Orleans band BRAT are blasting through punk pieties on the path to something much more fun.

music / Rock

Lutalo’s story-truth fuzz rock

On Lutalo's debut album The Academy, they play with auto-fiction and folky post-punk to blend elements from their own childhood with their imagination.

music / Rock

Songs You Need In Your Life This Week

Every week, The FADER collects all the songs we have on repeat into one playlist. Here they are, in no particular order.

music / Hip-Hop

untitled (halo) avert reality with deadpan dreamscapes

Los Angeles indie rock band untitled (halo) have built on the foundations of their 2023 debut EP towncryer with a recent run of dreamy and demonic singles.

music / Rock

Speak No Evil didn’t need a remake

The 2024 version of Speak No Evil, starring James McAvoy, feels like a throwback to a less enlightened time in movie history. Watch the original instead.

culture / Film

The power to change the world: The oral history of “Look at Wrist”

Father, ILoveMakonnen, KEY!, and 019dexter tell the story of the song that defined a golden era of underground Atlanta rap.

music / Hip-Hop

Gen F: julie’s noise rock is unbeholden to the past

julie ditched dreams of architecture to build their towering debut album, my anti-aircraft friend.

music / Rock

The patient hustle of Babyface Ray’s The Kid That Did

On his fourth studio album 'The Kid That Did,' Babyface Ray makes his case for canonization. Read our review here.

music / Hip-Hop

New Music Friday: Stream projects from Floating Points, Wendy Eisenberg, and more

It's New Music Friday, and once more The FADER is rounding up all the albums you should stream. Today, hear new projects from Floating Points, Wendy Eisenberg, Another Dancer, and more.

music / Rock

The album that sparked the Drain Gang revolution

Five years ago today, Drain Gang’s breakout collab album Trash Album introduced them to a world beyond their cult following.

music / Hip-Hop

How Allegra Krieger learned to stop worrying and love the chaos

Allegra Krieger’s life was upended by a fire in her Manhattan apartment block last year. On her fourth album, she zooms and sees life in all of its randomness.

music / Folk