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

An interview with CANADA director Nicolas Mendez on shooting "Berghain," why Rosalia is a brave artist, and the role of music ...

Meet Homixide Gang, (Beno! and Meechie) who are expanding the Opium-verse and opening for Playboi Carti on The Antagonist ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 2015, there is one question at the crux of any Jodeci interview, and as soon as the group arrived at The FADER's New York office in March, I knew I wasn't going to get a definitive answer. Jodeci ...

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 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, ...

Once a dance craze reaches The Ellen DeGeneres Show, it’s gone, for better or worse, peak viral. Earlier this week, the #RunningManChallenge—where people upload clips of themselves doing the Running ...