The best songs of 2025, as picked by the editors and contributors of The FADER. Featuring "WHIM WHAMIEE," Dijon's "Baby," ...

Roaming the lively streets of Berlin, Bladee has a clear mind. “I feel like you can think better when you walk,” he tells me over FaceTime. Behind him, motorbikes roar past, and a group of strangers ...

Meet Sofia Isella, the Los Angeles singer making dark songs for feral girls and opening on tour for Taylor Swift, Halsey, and ...

The TikTok viral song "I Run" has sparked a legal feud over AI in music between artist HAVEN. and Jorja Smith. We analyze the ...

The air inside The Park Avenue Armory in New York has a very specific quality. It vibrates with something between anticipation and apprehension. On the last Tuesday of April, a small handful of people ...

Flow Festival in Helsinki, Finland is bringing together music's best and brightest for their upcoming 2026 edition. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, sombr, Florence + The Machine, and PinkPantheress are ...

My Bloody Valentine, Shoegaze's imperial pioneers, reunited at their biggest show yet in Dublin on November 22. Read our ...

The song genre that is “calling out your man after you’ve caught him cheating” is a tricky one. With a canon that already includes classics like “Jolene ...

In October 2004, the New York Times published an essay by Kelefa Sanneh titled “The Rap Against Rockism.” The piece examined a strain of music criticism that held up guitar-centric, album-oriented, ...

Last year, fans online began to wonder what happened to Tink: it had been 16 months since the 22-year-old had dropped her last mixtape, and 6 months since she'd dropped off of social media completely.

In 2001, The FADER's then senior editor Eric Ducker interviewed Alicia Keys for The FADER issue number 7. Alicia Keys has a weird habit: when she curses, which she doesn't do often, her mouth makes a ...

In the late aughts, a party trend emerged in street dances in Jamaica that followed a “uniform party” theme in which attendees—mostly between the ages of 17 and 25—would arrive in some exaggerated ...