The Opener: Six Sex’s campy club carnage

The Opener: Six Sex’s campy club carnage

The Argentine princess of perreo-rave will tour the U.S. ahead of her forthcoming debut album. Six Sex.   Catalina Jacobo The Opener is The FADER’s short-form profile series of casual conversations with exciting new artists. Six Sex wants you to lose your mind tonight. The Argentine princess of perreo-rave demands her listeners let go and…

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Naïka dreams of borderless pop music

Naïka dreams of borderless pop music

The French-Haitian singer’s debut album ECLESIA hits a pancontinental groove The Opener is The FADER’s short-form profile series of casual conversations with exciting new artists. Naïka has an omnivorous vision for the future of pop. The French-Haitian singer built a dedicated following over the past five years thanks to her genre-melding twist on global pop…

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ira glass are unafraid of entropy

ira glass are unafraid of entropy

The Chicago post-post-hardcore quartet strive for catharsis amidst saxophone-and-guitar-induced carnage. ira glass: (L-R) Landon Kerouac, Jill Roth, Kaleb Wallace, and Lise Ivanova.   The Opener is The FADER’s short-form profile series of casual conversations with exciting new artists. ira glass make post-post hardcore that is playful, piercing and prodigiously loud. The Chicago quartet’s November EP…

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ERIS THE PLANET is a renaissance woman

ERIS THE PLANET is a renaissance woman

The 25-year-old DC rapper cosigned by SZA cuts her own irresistible groove The Opener is The FADER’s short-form profile series of casual conversations with exciting new artists. “I just killed the old me, this a renaissance,” ERIS THE PLANET purrs at the start of her April 2025 breakout “GEEZER.” Her undulating flow taps out gentle…

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SOFIA ISELLA’s artful post-punk for angry women

SOFIA ISELLA’s artful post-punk for angry women

Meet the 20-year-old inspired by Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, and who has already opened for Taylor Swift. Nicolita Bradley The Opener is The FADER’s short-form profile series of casual conversations with exciting new artists. One listen to Sofia Isella‘s popular song “The Doll People” — which contains the lyric “We are paintings with legs…

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