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The 46th annual BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival takes over the NYC borough's Prospect Park this summer, and today the lineup has been announced. From June 8-August 24, acts like Meshell Ndegeocello, Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul, Sinkane, The Halluci Nation, Black Belt Eagle Scout, and many more will perform free shows at the Lena Horne Bandshell.

Much has been made of how “dark” things have gotten between Kendrick Lamar and Drake. I disagree — I’m old enough to remember a few SpaceGhostPurpp disses, or Remy Ma taking Nicki Minaj to task for supporting her brother, a convicted child rapist — but they’re certainly the two biggest rappers I’ve seen take things this far into the mud.

From its first notes to its last, The Cool Cloud of Okayness is an impressively patient album. Its songs drive slowly, powered by the ever-present engine of Tara Jane O’Neil’s towering bass guitar, with her pithy but plain-sung vocals at the wheel and an ensemble of co-conspirators along for the ride — each contributing something essential, none in a hurry to outpace the rest.

Every Friday, The FADER's writers dive into the most exciting new projects released that week. Today, read our thoughts on Kamasi Washington's Fearless Movement, Jessica Pratt's Here in the Pitch, Hana Vu's Romanticism, and more.

Charlotte Day Wilson can make her words hit like a ton of feathers, soft in their presentation yet undeniable in their cumulative impact. “I went to a funeral today just so I could feel something,” the Toronto artist sang on “Funeral,” a morbid highlight from her 2018 EP Stone Woman. Across that breakout project and its follow-up, her 2021 debut album Alpha, Day Wilson toiled over break-ups and the accompanying anxiety, self-doubt, and pain.

Way back in 2021, an account with the handle carl92 posted a brief snippet on Whatzatsong, a website that lets its users collaborate to track down obscure tunes. carl92’s snippet was a lo-fi rip of an energetic ‘80s pop tune.

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It’s a Thursday in early April and Anycia is calling me in the middle of getting her nails done. The 26-year-old rapper is supposed to be relaxing: she’s back in her hometown of Atlanta on one of her precious days off. She’d just done a show in New York the previous weekend, with an impending show in Seattle and a press run in LA.

Every Friday, The FADER's writers dive into the most exciting new projects released that week. Today, read our thoughts on Sega Bodega's Dennis, LustSickPuppy's Carousel From Hell, Anitta's Funk Generation, and more.

Every frame of The People’s Joker, the debut feature from Vera Drew, drips with an anarchist spirit. In theaters now, the film began as a lark during the COVID-19 lockdown, a gag that poked fun at the endlessly rebooted Batman franchise and its iconic lead villain the Joker. It eventually grew into a feature-length film with Drew as its lead Joker and enlisted dozens of friends and collaborators to create the dynamic, varied visual style.

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

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.

Every Friday, The FADER's writers dive into the most exciting new projects released that week. Today, read our thoughts on bbymutha's Sleep Paralysis, Chanel Beads' Your Day Will Come, Lord Spikeheart's The Adept, and more.

In the fall of 2019, Brooklyn creative collective MSCHF sent “cool pastors” and holier-than-thou hypebeasts into a frenzy by releasing a pair of white Nike Air Max 97s with a crucifix pendant and Holy Water in the soles. Dubbed the Jesus Shoe, it was a viral sensation that cost more than what most Americans pay for a month’s rent and sold out in less than a minute.

Watching the preview clip of Back To Black, the new Amy Winehouse biopic, it is impossible to shake the image of the late singer watching it herself. Winehouse, someone unafraid to dismiss anything she saw as beneath her, would surely not accept this soft-soap depiction of her rise from jazz singer to international icon. Back To Black isn’t really for Amy Winehouse, though.

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Last Wednesday, a friend texted the groupchat: “If Drake diss song fye… what do we do Kendrick bros?” I replied, “KENDRICK GOT HIM RAPPING AGAIN… THANK YOU MR. MORALE!!!!!” Haven’t you missed this? Drake rapping like he actually cares about the music, not just the money it can make? The last time a Drake song had social media lit up this bright was three years ago with “Lemon Pepper Freestyle,” and that wasn’t anywhere near this level of political intrigue.

As Standing Rock Sioux writer and theologian Vine Deloria Jr. once said, “Religion is for people who're afraid of going to Hell.

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

Every Friday, The FADER's writers dive into the most exciting new projects released that week.

Rap Blog is a weekly showcase of a standout rap song. A month ago at Rolling Loud California, NLE Choppa demanded the crowd get their phones out.

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

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tdf’s productions can bait a certain kind of rap fan, down to his drops. Littered across his projects RELIGION and BLUEPRINT are vicious insults sampled from Instagram Live: tdf is a dickrider, tdf fell off, tdf has the Cheese Touch; tdf wants to be Pi’erre Bourne so bad, tdf keeps putting “random ass n***as” on his beats, tdf is “the worst prod in history.” “I don’t really take that stuff seriously, so I just put it in there,” the 20-year-old tells me over the phone. Based in Minnesota, tdf (née Tyrese Jones) mostly collaborates over the Internet.

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When Majesty Crush first started making music together they used two words to guide them: Covert (cool and quietly curious) and important (impactful and far-reaching). “We wanted our record to be the one that was on the turntable of people just like us,” Odell Nails III, the band’s drummer, says. The Detroit band recently reissued its only studio album, 1993’s Love 15, plus a collection of singles, EPs, and rarities under the title Butterflies Don’t Go Away.

“To those who in all times have sought truth and who have told it in their art or in their living, who died in honor …To those in all times who have sought truth and who failed to tell it in their art or in their lives, and who now are dead.” - James Agee, “Dedication”