#Listmania 2024

#Listmania 2024

The year that was, summarized in silly and occasionally insightful short-form lists. In 2017, The FADER published the final installment in our long-running Listmania series, a collection of goofy and insightful lists celebrating and summarizing the year that was. Seven years later, not much of note has changed in the music industry or, indeed, the…

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#13 artists we’re excited about in 2025

#13 artists we’re excited about in 2025

You’re still early. Cady Siregar/ The FADER Every day, the staff of The FADER gets hundreds of emails from industry people about artists they’re claiming will be the “next big thing.” Sometimes they’re right. Most times they’re not. Either way, over the years, we’ve learned that the best indicator is still relying on our gut…

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#The best music of 2024: Artist Picks

#The best music of 2024: Artist Picks

The best music of 2024: Artist Picks In case you need even more stuff to listen to. By The FADER Cady Siregar/The FADER Another year has come and gone and that includes The FADER’s annual lists of our favorite albums and songs. While compiling our 2024 selections, we suddenly had the thought of wanting to…

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#The 50 best songs of 2024

#The 50 best songs of 2024

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,…

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#How Clara Miller finds movement and meaning

#How Clara Miller finds movement and meaning

The New York-based singer-songwriter talks shifting her sound and how a physical therapy session changed her perspective. When we speak to singer-songwriter Clara Miller, she’d just finished teaching a dance class. “Baby ballet,” she says. As a former dancer with the New York City ballet, so much of Miller’s music has been heavily informed by…

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#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 ShotByNee; Ebru Yildiz; Richard Cordones 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…

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#These 2024 albums master the art of transgression

#These 2024 albums master the art of transgression

skaiwater’s #gigi, Cindy Lee’s Diamond Jubilee, and DJ Anderson do Paraíso’s Queridão couldn’t be more different, but each flaunts convention in its own way. Design by Cady Siregar.   Every project on our 50 Best Albums of 2024 list strained against one social more or another, from Charli XCX’s unapologetically hyper-charged late-millennial pop, with its…

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#The 50 best albums of 2024

#The 50 best albums of 2024

The 50 best albums of 2024 From Brat to Bird’s Eye and Cold Visions to Queridão, these are the albums we couldn’t ignore 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, David Renshaw, Walden Green Every album…

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#Lucy remembers everyone he’s ever met

#Lucy remembers everyone he’s ever met

LUCY remembers everyone he’s ever met From the top of a Western Massachusetts mountain to a converted basement venue in Little Italy, we spend a few days with one of modern music’s best-kept secrets. By Raphael Helfand Cooper Handy, also known as LUCY, performs in the basement of New York City’s Grotta Azzurra. Photo by…

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