Songs You Need In Your Life This Week Tracks we love right now, in no particular order. By The FADER Photos courtesy of Nathy Peluso; Javan Foster; KeiyaA/XL Recordings Each…
Photo by Talia Mayden This story is part of our fall 2025 series, Offline, where we investigate IRL spaces and explore our relationships with music and the internet. This past…
Kevin Winter / Getty Images A new class-action lawsuit against Spotify has named Drake as an example of how bot-farming and fake streams have infiltrated the streaming platform causing “massive…
Photos courtesy of Whatmore The first thing you should know about WHATMORE is that they’re more of a supergroup than a band. Its five members — Cisco Swank, Yoshi T.,…
Cutting Room in New York City. Photo by Rob Kim/Getty Images for The Recording Academy. Doom Gong, a seven-piece indie psyche band from Kentucky, have accused staff and ownership…
In The Earth Again review: Chat Pile and Hayden Pedigo’s doom haze”> Chat Pile and Hayden Pedigo. Photo by James Cooper. The “Triassic Cuddle” is a story told in…
Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images Rap goes out of vogue on the Billboard Top 40 For the first time since 1990, there are no rap songs in the top 40…
3X10review: oddball R&B bliss”> 1010benja. Photo by George Ian Hewitt Kansas City-based producer-singer-songwriter 1010benja’s new three-track EP follows his 2024 debut album Ten Total, a collision of neo-soul, sugary…
Snocaps. Photo by Chris Black. Allison and Katie Crutchfield first began collaborating at home in Birmingham, Alabama as young teens. In a 2006 documentary about their first band the…
Image from Lil Baby’s “Plenty” video Every month, The FADER’s Vivian Medithi showcases all the standout rap songs from the past 30-ish days in one unranked list. Lil Baby…