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Every Friday, The FADER's writers dive into the most exciting new projects released that week. Today, read our thoughts on Beth Gibbons's Lives Outgrown, Draag's Actually, the quiet is nice, Lip Critic's Hex Dealer, and more.

Lives Outgrown is an album 10 years in the making after half a century in the ether. The debut solo LP from Portishead frontwoman Beth Gibbons, released six-and-a-half months before her 60th birthday, comprises 10 jaw-droppingly lush tracks, each a condensed saga of its own.

Wolfacejoeyy has to hand it to his mother. “My mom always told me, ‘You know you can sing right?’” the Staten Island rapper says. “I'm like, ‘Why are you telling me this? If I could sing I would know.’ Then I started recording music and I was like, ‘Hold on.

For UNIIQU3, the soul of her music starts on the dancefloor. Crafting hits like her 2018 breakout single “Microdosing,” remixes for artists like Chloe Bailey and Aluna George, and touring with Tinashe, the New Jersey native DJ and producer has always been guided by the many ways Jersey Club’s heavy pulse can make a crowd move.

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In Jane Schoenbrun’s films, ecstasy and annihilation coexist on the other side of a screen. Their 2021 debut We’re All Going To The World’s Fair took the chokehold of internet addiction and turned it into a horror movie; their new film I Saw The TV Glow returns to the genre and expands on the contemporary themes.

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Every Friday, The FADER's writers dive into the most exciting new projects released that week. Today, read our thoughts on Chief Keef's Almighty So 2, I. JORDAN's I AM JORDAN, Amen Dunes' Death Jokes, and more.

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

When I was 15, my first boyfriend gave me a burned CD with the words “cool music” written in Sharpie across the bottom. It contained over a dozen songs, the kind you’d expect to receive from a brooding indie rock-minded teenager with a gutterpunk streak; the track I’d play on loop was a cover of Kraftwerk’s “The Model.” Steve Albini’s punk band Big Black had transformed it into something unapologetically intense and so unafraid of its imperfect emotion that it was willing to be mistaken for an exorcism.

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.

Rap Blog is a weekly showcase of a standout rap song.

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

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.

The Opener is The FADER's short-form profile series of casual conversations with exciting new artists.

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