Meet Precious Renee Tucker, the experimental pianist who went viral on TikTok and Instagram and counts Solange and Telfar ...

I’m at the biggest shoegaze show of all time, and the vibe is a parody of the genre’s stereotypically coy character. All 9,500 fans shuffle politely to their seats in Dublin’s 3Arena, nestling gently ...

Four years before DIIV played its first show, Zachary Cole Smith moved into an apartment with a girl he barely knew. They shared a bedroom in Brownsville, a mostly un-gentrified Brooklyn neighborhood ...

On a warm January night in Mexico City’s Santa María la Ribera neighborhood, I’m sitting on the floor of a studio space, listening to rough cuts from Diles que no me maten’s next album. Recording of ...

Bonnaroo, perhaps the U.S.'s most eclectic major summer music festival, has unveiled its 2026 edition, and it's another mashup of the who's who in rock, pop, EDM, and punk. Skrillex, The Strokes, Griz ...

Skrilla conquered 2025 with 6 7. In a new interview, he discusses growing up in Kensington, going viral, and his upcoming ...

Buy a print copy of the Playboi Carti issue of The FADER, and order a poster of his cover here. Playboi Carti lives in the woods — at least it feels like it at first. Almost half of Atlanta is covered ...

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Claire Boucher is behind the wheel of her white Ford hybrid, talking faster than we’re moving through space. There’s a faint ring of blue around her hairline—lingering make-up from an eight-hour photo ...

In her 2013 single "Flawless," Beyoncé sampled a speech given by award-winning Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie entitled "We Should All Be Feminists." The internet was awash with thinkpieces ...

Kayla Newman started her Vine account to record herself commenting on the minutia and mundanity of high school life. This was nearly two years ago, when she was 16. For her handle, Newman chose a ...

The true story of one of rap’s most defining moments, from the projects of New Orleans to the pages of Merriam-Webster. In the early 2000s, an animated MTV spot cheekily illustrated the strange life ...