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

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 ...

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 ...

Drake has announced details of a headline arena tour of Europe and the U.K. alongside PARTYNEXTDOOR. The $ome $pecial $hows 4 UK EU run kicks off on July 20 in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

In 2001, The FADER's then senior editor Eric Ducker interviewed Alicia Keys for The FADER issue number 7. Alicia Keys has a weird habit: when she curses, which she doesn't do often, her mouth makes a ...

JT’s dalliance with queer culture didn’t start this weekend. It started in 2023 with the internet-shaking lyric on her song “No Bars”: “Pretty like a transgender.” The debate that lyric kicked off — ...

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 ...