A guide to skaiwater’s best songs

A guide to skaiwater’s best songs

The FADER’s latest cover star might drop your favorite song tonight. Photo by Nate Gotsis U.K. rapper-producer skaiwater is The FADER’s latest cover star. The newly independent, nonbinary artist is post-genre, post-gender, post-industry, post-everything. Their 2024 album #gigi was The FADER’s No. 1 album of 2024, and I’d argue their February album wonderful is even…

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18 songs for a transformative Taurus Season

18 songs for a transformative Taurus Season

For an astrologically intense solar transit, listen to songs by M.I.A., Tokischa, and Sexyy Red. M.I.A. and the surface of Pluto.   NASA / Mel Ashley via publicist. I’ve never planned my life around a horoscope, but I enjoy astrology as a meditative practice. I find astrological charts mesmerizing, and reading someone’s birth chart is…

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7 more xaviersobased songs you need in your life

7 more xaviersobased songs you need in your life

The FADER’s latest cover star has a stacked discography Jonathan Mannion / The FADER xaviersobased is an underground rapper from New York’s Upper West Side who pioneered jerk music alongside his collective 1c. He just dropped his debut album XAVIER and he’s also The FADER’s newest cover star. Here are seven more songs to bump…

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Che announces Rest In Bass tour dates

Che announces Rest In Bass tour dates

Starting in September. Tycho Burwell Fresh from releasing his new album Rest Is Bass, rising Atlanta rapper Che has confirmed details of a headline tour. The Rest Is Bass tour will take Che across North America from September 3, starting in Houston and including shows in Los Angeles, Chicago, Toronto, and New York City before…

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Che’s ready to wake the dead

Che’s ready to wake the dead

Across show-stopping festival dates and one ear-ringing studio session, the 18-year-old Atlanta artist walks us through the creation of his new project REST IN BASS. You ready? YOU READY?? … OPEN THAT SHIT THE FUCK UP ROLLING LOUUUUUUUUUUD! WIDER!! WIDER!!! OPEN THAT SHIT UP!!!! OPEN THAT SHIT UPPPPP!!!!!!! It’s March 16, and I’m in the…

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