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Artists and attendees explain why North America’s largest Afro-Caribbean Hip-Hop festival is where the diaspora finds home. Aziza, Rama, & Patricia, Attendees For the second year in a row, North America’s largest Afro-Caribbean music festival AfroPlus descended on Washington D.C. When I stepped into the venue, everywhere you looked people were flexing their culture:…
According to Spotify. Photos: Courtesy of Roc Nation, Aidan Zamiri, YouTube, Anson Tong, Hublot It’s clearly a New York City summer. Maybe that’s a bit literal for us at The FADER since we live and work here, but New York City has been on a hot streak. From the Knicks long-sought championship win to JÄY-Z’s…
The British singer chats Oscar Scheller, fusing dancehall with electropop, and her upcoming EP Bangs N Braces in a new interview for The FADER. iKeda Erika Kamano. via the artist iKeda has been on a steady rise in 2026, from opening for PinkPantheress on her European tour to recording new music for her upcoming…
The new G2 models come with faster processors, more memory, storage, and classic MPC-inspired colorways. Akai has two new MPCs for producers who would rather make the beat on hardware first and open the laptop later. The MPC One G2 and MPC Key 37 G2 are both standalone systems, meaning you can sample, sequence, arrange,…
The new libraries bring Spitfire’s Intimate Strings and Cinematic Pads into the Akai MPC workflow. Spitfire Audio and Akai Professional have released two new sound libraries for MPC: Originals Intimate Strings MPC Edition and Originals Cinematic Pads MPC Edition. The release marks the next step in the companies’ partnership, which was first announced at NAMM…
The 51 best songs of 2025 These tracks from Rosalía, MIKE, james k, and more soundtracked our year. By Tobias Hess, Hajin Yoo, Kylah Williams, Vivian Medithi, Leah Mandel, Lucas Villa, Dylan Green, Steffanee Wang, India Roby, Shamira Ibrahim, Salvatore Maicki Design by Sabrina Kaune Stream this list on Apple Music and Spotify. See The…
Songs You Need In Your Life This Week Tracks we love right now, in no particular order. By The FADER Each week, The FADER staff rounds up the songs we can’t get enough of. Here they are, in no particular order. Listen on our Spotify and Apple Music playlists, or hear them all below. Dove…
Incarceration, health issues, a fast-changing world — in spite of everything, dancehall’s most revered legend is still charting a path forward. Vybz Kartel. Photo by Tizzy Tokyo. We’re a world away from one of the earliest shows Vybz Kartel played in Brooklyn. If you search hard enough, there’s footage of Kartel, slender and confident,…
The Kingston, Jamaica concert was the dancehall artist’s first appearance since leaving jail last summer. Dancehall star Vybz Kartel made a triumphant return to the stage on New Year’s Eve, with a sold-out show marking his first live appearance in over a decade. The Jamaican artist was joined at the Freedom Street event by a…
The 50 best songs of 2024 From “Not Like Us” to “Nasty” and “Slut Me Out 2” to “You a Stepper,” these are the songs we had on repeat this year. By Alex Robert Ross, Cady Siregar, Jordan Darville, Raphael Helfand, Steffanee Wang, Wale Oloworekende, Shaad D’Souza, Lucas Villa, Colin Joyce, Emma Madden, Vivian Medithi,…