#Songs You Need In Your Life This Week

#Songs You Need In Your Life This Week

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. Kendrick…

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#The wave to earth effect

#The wave to earth effect

The South Korean trio have sold out two big U.S. tours in the past two years, a rarity for K-pop groups, let alone indie rock bands. How? Roger Tam It’s a Friday night at Manhattan’s Hammerstein Ballroom and 12,000 phones are up in the air. On stage, a five-piece band — a drummer, bassist, keyboardist,…

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#The Necks are keeping it normal

#The Necks are keeping it normal

The Necks are keeping it normal As it turns out, Australia’s most renowned free-improvisation trio are just regular guys who like to party. By Raphael Helfand The Necks (from left: Tony Buck, Lloyd Swanton, and Chris Abrahams. Photo by Camille Walsh.   When the Necks released their debut album, Sex, in 1989, it didn’t make…

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#Office Culture finds beauty in the details

#Office Culture finds beauty in the details

The New York City jazz-rock band’s new album, Enough, is the product of an entirely new approach to making music: expansive, omnivorous, and otherworldly. Ivy Meissner Shortly after finishing work on Big Time Things, his band Office Culture’s third studio album, Winston Cook-Wilson realized he’d pushed his process to its limit. Written alone and rehearsed…

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#New Music Friday: Stream projects from Charli XCX, GloRilla, Chat Pile, and more

#New Music Friday: Stream projects from Charli XCX, GloRilla, Chat Pile, and more

Stream every standout album released this Friday with The FADER’s weekly roundup. Terry O’Connor Every Friday, The FADER’s writers dive into the most exciting new projects released that week. Today, read our thoughts on Charli XCX’s star-studded remix album for ‘Brat,’ GloRilla’s high-energy debut, ‘GLORIOUS,’ and rapper E L U C I D’s blistering new…

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#Yasmin Williams escapes tradition

#Yasmin Williams escapes tradition

On her third album, Acadia, the guitarist and composer pushes even further beyond folk conventions, incorporating jazz, bluegrass, and ambient music. Yasmin Williams   Ebru Yildiz Around a minute into “Dawning,” at the end of a solo acoustic guitar introduction that rises and rests at its own calm pace, Yasmin Williams pauses to let a…

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#New Music Friday: Stream projects from Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn, Caribou, and more

#New Music Friday: Stream projects from Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn, Caribou, and more

Stream every standout album released this Friday with The FADER’s weekly roundup. Clifford Usher Every Friday, The FADER’s writers dive into the most exciting new projects released that week. Today, read our thoughts on Half Waif’s new album about grief, Caribou’s AI experimentation, and Jonah Yano’s latest jazzy effort. Half Waif: See You at the…

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#New Music Friday: Stream projects from fantasy of a broken heart, Nines, Ezra Collective, and more

#New Music Friday: Stream projects from fantasy of a broken heart, Nines, Ezra Collective, and more

Stream every standout album released this Friday with The FADER’s weekly roundup. Ezra Collective   Photo via publicist Every Friday, The FADER’s writers dive into the most exciting new projects released that week. Today, read our thoughts on the return of Xiu Xiu, U.K. rapper Nines’ final album, Ezra Collective’s Dance, No One’s Watching, and…

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#Milton Nascimento and esperanza spalding’s journey into jazz’s open ocean

#Milton Nascimento and esperanza spalding’s journey into jazz’s open ocean

Milton Nascimento and esperanza spalding’s journey into jazz’s open ocean spalding tells the story of her new joint album with the legendary Brazilian singer. By Raphael Helfand esperanza spalding (left) and Milton Nasciemento. Photo by Lucas Nogueira.   esperanza spalding first heard Milton Nascimento’s music as a grad student at Berklee. “Some Brazilian friends were…

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