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When he was eight years old in 2002, Offset served as a backup dancer in the video for “Whatchulookinat” by Whitney Houston (he’s the one in the grey suit). You might have caught a glimpse of his moves, perhaps at the 2019 BET Awards with Cardi B or 2023’s Rolling Loud Miami, impressive not for their intensity or complexity but for their synchronization and showmanship.

For most of her career, Amirtha Kidambi didn’t refer to herself as an activist, in the same way she didn’t consider herself a Carnatic singer despite studying the form for years. Both of these practices, she explained in a 2017 interview, are lifelong callings.

Discover Blogly is The FADER’s curated roundup of our favorite new music discoveries.

Rap Blog is a weekly showcase of a standout rap song. When I first listened to Hook's 2019 project Bully, I remember thinking how apt a title it is. The California rapper's flows — whether sledgehammer blunt or wispy smooth — are all delivered by the coolest mean girl you've ever had the misfortune of being read by: you think that you don't care about what people think until someone like Hook trains her sights on you like a cobra, ready to detach her jaw and let the venom fly.

The club on Saturday is like church on Sunday for those willing to live and love with abandon. Cakes Da Killa surely numbers among the faithful, these devotees to the riddims and nocturnes of the discotheque.

Every Friday, The FADER's writers dive into the most exciting new projects released that week. Today, read our thoughts on Nourished By Time's Catching Chickens EP, Waxahatchee's Tigers Blood, Jlin's Akoma, and more.

Pop music sounds more homogenous and inoffensive than ever before. Venture capital hoovers up publishing rights and record labels lean hard on TikTok trends, desperate to build as many data points as possible for a song that sells.

Discover Blogly is The FADER’s curated roundup of our favorite new music discoveries.

If you’ve ever been to a scuzzy punk party, you probably have at least one beer-soaked memory of watching someone carving a stick 'n' poke into their friend’s forearm. The process typically involves a sewing needle and a ballpoint pen, the ink used for a wobbly smiley face that’ll eventually start to weep blood.

Discover Blogly is The FADER’s curated roundup of our favorite new music discoveries.

The Opener is The FADER's short-form profile series of casual conversations with exciting new artists.

Soccer and music often make for pretty uncomfortable partners. The beautiful game is usually soundtracked by middle aged men chanting the “Seven Nation Army” riff while the players stick to Lil Baby in the changing rooms. While the Super Bowl gets Usher or Rihanna, major international soccer tournaments are soundtracked by Martin Garrix and Bono.

To hear Bktherula tell it, “LVL 5” refers to planes of consciousness: we all start at Level 3 (because we’re three-dimensional beings), then ascend to Level 4 (akin to breaking out of the Matrix) and then Level 5, where an individual overcomes their ego to have compassion for their fellow man, whatever level they’re on. There are levels beyond this, but this fifth dimension beyond the astral realm is where the 21-year-old artist resides.

Rap Column is a column about rap music by Vivian Medithi and Nadine Smith for The FADER.

Every Friday, The FADER's writers dive into the most exciting new projects released that week. Today, read our thoughts on Four Tet's Three, Heavee's Unleash, and Devon Welsh's Come With Me If You Want To Live.

Discover Blogly is The FADER’s curated roundup of our favorite new music discoveries.

Ariana Grande is healing, again. This, historically, has been a great thing for the top 40; her resilience is the magic that has fueled some of her biggest hits (see: “Break Free,” “no tears left to cry,” “thank u, next,” etc.) Her voice, one of the most ubiquitous in modern pop, practically epitomizes going onward and upward — four octaves, to be precise.

Rap Blog is a weekly showcase of a standout rap song. Collaborations between DaeMoney and Babyface Ray have the kind of consistent excellence you could set your watch to — as long as it's a Rolex, or better.

The Opener is The FADER's short-form profile series of casual conversations with exciting new artists.

Whenever the Oscars announce the nominees for Best Picture, there’s always a tidal wave of people yelling at the Academy over some perceived “snub.” But that doesn’t mean these other flicks don’t deserve some kind of recognition as well, which made us want to share a supplemental list of movies to watch after each Best Picture nominee, with the goal of going one step further than a “if you like this, then watch this” type list. Instead, we wanted to choose films with the potential to spark further discussion about the issues, themes, and narratives from each nominee.

Every Friday, The FADER's writers dive into the most exciting new projects released that week. Today, read our thoughts on Tony Shhnow's Out The Woods, Kim Gordon's The Collective, Bolis Pupul's Letter To Yu, and more.

In November, Tony Seltzer visited Atlanta for the first time, more for business than pleasure. He’d recently been in the studio with Bronx rapper MIKE, where the pair had recorded a song so good it planted the seed for their collaborative album Pinball, released just yesterday.

Discover Blogly is The FADER’s curated roundup of our favorite new music discoveries.

Bolis Pupul didn’t plan to construct his debut solo album Letter To Yu around a letter to his late mother, Yu Wei Wun, when she died suddenly in 2008. The thought still hadn’t crossed his mind 10 years later, when he first visited her native Hong Kong, but the wheels were set in motion on that trip.

Porsche Cars North America, Inc. (“Porsche”) and The FADER are returning to South by Southwest® (SXSW®) on the evening of March 9, with legendary rapper Common performing a special live set at Brazos Hall alongside 9th Wonder, plus a DJ set from Diamond Kuts.

Discover Blogly is The FADER's curated roundup of our favorite new music discoveries.

When I hop on a Zoom call with Bear1Boss, he immediately notices the embarrassing amount of wrestling action figures displayed on the bedroom wall behind me. Like wrestling fans tend to do when they meet a fellow member of the tribe, we start debating our personal GOATs. Turns out we have the same favorite wrestler: CM Punk, the scrappy underdog from Chicago who swaggers to the ring to the massive riffs of Living Colour’s “Cult of Personality” and never backs down from a fight.

Rap Blog is a weekly showcase of a standout rap song. L’Argent, the final film from French auteur Robert Bresson, doesn’t really have a main character: the title of the minimalist thriller translates bluntly to “Money.” Instead of a single protagonist, the film follows the journey of a forged Franc note from one hand to another, as the flow of capitalist economics connects people whose lives might otherwise never intersect.

Every Friday, The FADER's writers dive into the most exciting new projects released that week. Today, read our thoughts on Faye Webster's Underdressed at the Symphony, Squarepusher's Dostrotime, Sheer Mag's Playing Favorites, and more.

Cardi B has dropped “Like What (Freestyle),” her first new song of 2024. The track samples Missy Elliott’s 1999 Da Real World track “She’s a Bitch,” and it arrives with a music video directed by her husband, Offset.

Charli XCX has dropped "Von Dutch." The song follows news of XCX's upcoming album Brat, which is due this summer. Scroll down to see the "Von Dutch" video, shot at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport, below.

Annie Clark, a.k.a. St. Vincent, has confirmed details of her seventh full-length studio album.

Kacey Musgraves has announced her “Deeper Well World Tour,” in support of her upcoming album of the same name. The tour kicks off in Europe in April, with shows scheduled in Ireland and the U.K.

Nigerien rock group Mdou Moctar have shared details of their forthcoming album Funeral for Justice. Out on May 12 via Matador, the project is the sixth from the group, founded by the eponymous Tuareg rock guitarist. Today’s news comes with the release of the new album’s title track.

Discover Blogly is The FADER’s curated roundup of our favorite new music discoveries.