Sophie Allison, better known as Soccer Mommy, joins The FADER's Editorial Director Alex Robert Ross to talk about striving for perfection, allowing ugliness into her music, and writing a straight-up ghost song for the first time on her new album Sometimes, Forever . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The chameleonic Bartees Strange joins The FADER’s Editorial Director Alex Robert Ross to discuss confidence, gratitude, guilt, and the power of time on the latest episode of The FADER Interview. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The FADER’s Gyasi Williams-Kirtley sits down with Chad Hugo to discuss The Neptunes’ upcoming induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, as well as his promising future and his regretless past. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Hayden Anhedonia tells The FADER’s Salvatore Maicki about the development (and ultimate demise) of Ethel Cain as a character, her objections to being classified as a pop act, and how she plans to continue climbing up Cain’s family tree on her next record. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The FADER’s Raphael Helfand talks with Mary Lattimore and Paul Sukeena about how friendship, Friday Night Lights, and flaming cherries jubilee contributed to their gorgeous new record. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The FADER's Editorial Director Alex Robert Ross calls Morby at his studio in Kansas City to talk about time, ghosts, and Memphis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The FADER’s Brandon Callender talks to Bobby Shmurda about his newfound independence as an artist, adjusting to the ever-changing music industry since coming home, and what to expect from him this year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The FADER's Alex Robert Ross asks Action Bronson about his forthcoming album, Cocodrillo Turbo and his recently published book, F*ck It, I'll Start Tomorrow: A True Story , but their conversation turns down far stranger avenues: from hedonism to testosterone, crocodiles to body boarding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The FADER’s Salvatore Maicki talks to Caroline Polachek and Flume about how ambulances, Danny L. Harle, and Magic: The Gathering each lent a formative hand in the creation of their new song and video, "Sirens.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The FADER's Raphael Helfand talks to rapper billy woods and producer Preservation about the symbiotic relationship that birthed their new album Aethiopes , as well as Jamaican folk legends, roulette, and MF Doom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The FADER’s editorial director Alex Robert Ross talks to Destroyer's Dan Bejar about about the villain in his songs, how his drive towards the gallows mirrors that of both Scott Walker and Tom Waits, and his frustrating inability to break out of his craft. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The FADER’s Jordan Darville talks to Blanck Mass about how pandemic isolation informed his score for Tony Snow's Ted K , the necessary sensitivity for making a film about a real-life monster, and his favorite film composers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The FADER’s Brandon Callender catches up with Fly Anakin to talk about growing up in Richmond, learning from Max B and Ghostface, and the leap forward that he’s taken on his new album Frank . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Raphael Helfand talks to the inimitable Jenny Hval about her new album Classic Objects , the separation of art and self, and her new puppy Cleo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Alex Robert Ross talks to Tamara Lindeman, a.k.a. The Weather Station, about the pain of broken political promises and the daunting task of fitting global themes into the quiet, personal songs of her new album How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The FADER's Raphael Helfand sits down with Sasami Ashworth to talk about System of a Down, Japanese water spirits, and the making of her new album Squeeze. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The FADER's Editorial Director Alex Robert Ross talks to Catherine Elicson and Randall Coon of Empath about slowing things down, chopping up horror samples on their new album Visitor, and touring as an indie band in 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The FADER’s Raphael Helfand sits down with Animal Collective’s Panda Bear and Deakin to discuss the group’s creative ebbs and flows, the Music Box Village in New Orleans, and how the Grateful Dead influenced their new album Time Skiffs . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The FADER’s Salvatore Maicki catches up with glitchy dreampop artist yeule to discuss the evolution of their persona, collaborating with Japanese artist Tohji, and the synesthetic elements that informed the creation of their new album Glitch Princess . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The FADER’s Jordan Darville speaks with Bonobo's Simon Green about the unusual process behind his new album Fragments , making works of challenging nostalgia, his musical upbringing, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Bonus Episode from The FADER Uncovered: Host Mark Ronson is once again joined by Pharrell Williams for the second part of their epic interview. This time out they discuss Pharrell’s punk education at the iconic 9:30 Club in DC, his love of go-go music, why Lenny Kravitz is underrated, and the surprising origins of N.E.R.D.’s rock sound before the pair stop to give A Tribe Called Quest legend Q-Tip his flowers as one of the most influential figures in musical history. Learn more about your ad cho...
Bonus Episode from The FADER Uncovered: Host Mark Ronson is joined by Pharrell Williams for the first in a two part interview. Together they revisit The Neptunes’ 2002 FADER cover and look back on the breakthrough period of Pharrell’s career, discussing the magic of working with colorful characters including Mystikal, N.O.R.E. and Ludacris. Pharrell also lifts the lid on what it’s like in the studio with Jay-Z and how a refusal to be confined to any one kind of music led him to where he is today...
In the second part of a two-episode special, The FADER's Editorial Director Alex Robert Ross talks to Alicia Keys about collaborating with Lil Wayne on her new album KEYS, recording a cover of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" with her son Egypt, and giving her first-ever interview to The FADER in 2001. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In the first part of a two-episode special, The FADER's Editorial Director Alex Robert Ross talks to 15-time Grammy-winning artist Alicia Keys about the expectations she had placed on her as a young artist, the creative challenges she faced in lockdown, and the two decades that led up to her new album KEYS . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
For the latest in our long-running Gen F series, we speak to experimental artist 8485, who is moving between genres and building a world of her own. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jessy Lanza tells The FADER's David Renshaw about about channeling a life’s worth of parties and DJ sets into her new DJ-Kicks mix, how she managed to make it more than just a live set, and what it means to finally be able to get back out in the world and see people dancing again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dijon talks to The FADER's Editorial Director Alex Robert Ross about his new album Absolutely. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Snail Mail's Lindsey Jordan tells The FADER's Salvatore Maicki about her new album Valentine , the pitfalls of being labeled a queer artist, and the one Snail Mail conspiracy theory that irks her. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BADBADNOTGOOD’s Chester Hansen and Alex Sowinski tell The FADER's Sajae Elder about recovering from burnout and working with their heroes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Maxo Kream tells The FADER’s Jordan Darville about growing up in Houston, his fashion line Persona, and getting in fights at church. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
