Loe Day was a major milestone in my career,” Loe Shimmy tells The FADER over email. “A way for me to bring everything we’ve ...

The Kai Cenat-affiliated music festival brought JT, Meek Mill, and DaBaby to Albany alongside Reggie, Dezz, and Tylil.

Shop the Rochelle Jordan collection. Rochelle Jordan can pinpoint the exact moment she first started hearing music. She was in grade three, and one day during music class, Jordan’s teacher divided ...

I’m 32 years old, and I’m at the xaviersobased show. For many people, and for me most days, that might sound relatively young. But if you’re a fan of xaviersobased and his dissonant, very online brand ...

At the heart of many James Blake songs lies an icy void, refracted through resonant frequencies and minor chord progressions that never seem to fully thaw out. It’s a loneliness that’s given auditory ...

Bandcamp announced they would institute a general ban on songs made using artificial intelligence on Tuesday. The online music distribution platform said in a Reddit post that music made entirely or ...

Stream this list on Apple Music and Spotify. See The FADER's 50 best albums of 2025. As the opening track to their debut album, “Real Life” feels like ear’s way of saying “hello world.” It begins ...

Young Thug is in damage control mode. The first shot across the bow was a previously leaked 2015 interrogation of the Atlanta rapper. It was seen as Thug trolling detectives when it first emerged in ...

Read an interview with Fetty Wap about his new album 'Zavier,' life post prison, protecting his energy, the meaning of ...

The spark of U.K. rap’s new era was ignited in 2021, and it glowed with the familiar warmth of plugg. “I’m in Mayfair eating lobster (lob-sta)/ She want me to take her to Costa (kos-tah)” raps YT on ...

In 2025, the song of the summer is no longer a singular designation but a window into how music consumption and culture writ large has become increasingly fragmented. With monoculture dead, any number ...

KATSEYE’s new song “Gnarly” opens with a megaphone pressed right up against your ear. “They could describe everything with one single word,” member Yoonchae says before listing a bunch of things that ...