The FADER Podcast

The FADER’s Alex Robert Ross catches up with Whitney’s Julien Ehrlich and Max Kakacek in honor of their new album ‘Spark’ to talk about writing through grief and falling back in love with Usher and Gwen Stefani. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rina Sawayama is finding fresh struggles — and cause for celebration — in her new success. On the latest episode of The FADER Interview, the ascendant megastar tells David Renshaw about the making of her intensely emotional, deeply funny, supersized sophomore album, ‘Hold The Girl,’ out next week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sarah Midori Perry and Jennifer Walton join The FADER’s Raphael Helfand to discuss their debut joint project as Cryalot, as well as religious mythology, Minecraft concerts, pampas grass angel wings, ‘The Fast and the Furious,’ and death metal screaming technique. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Regina Spektor’s ’11:11’ 20th anniversary box set, featuring a double LP of previously unheard recordings titled ‘Papa’s Bootlegs,’ drops tomorrow. On the new episode of The FADER Interview, the pop anomaly tells Kim Taylor Bennett about the little things that have shaped the arc of her long, fruitful career. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scottish producer extraordinaire Hudson Mohawke tells The FADER’s David Renshaw how he navigated the pitfalls and “profound ridiculousness” of alcoholism and American decadence in search of perfect pop music for Cry Sugar, his first new album in seven years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Iconic film score composer and all-around musical eccentric Danny Elfman tells The FADER’s Raphael Helfand about his new project Bigger. Messier. and some other things that make him happy, including low-budget horror movies, his tattoos, and his daughter Mali’s forthcoming first feature film. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The FADER’s Brandon Callender speaks to breakout Nigerian superstar Fireboy DML about opening himself up to collaboration, valuing solitude, and Afrobeats’ global takeover. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

quinn, a 17-year-old living in Columbus, Georgia, has transcended her beginnings as a hyperpop wunderkind to become an experimental producer and composer of searingly personal works. The FADER's Jordan Darville spoke to her about her new self-titled album, her label deadAir, and the unexpected obstacles to following her artistic vision. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoice...

The FADER’s Raphael Helfand joins the living legend DJ Premier in his Queens studio to talk about his new project, a five-track tape to kick off hip-hop’s 50th anniversary celebration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brittney Parks — the violinist, singer, rapper, producer, and arranger better known as Sudan Archives — tells The FADER’s Raphael Helfand about her newfound acceptance of Capital-P Pop, her missing pet python, and the unorthodox process that led to the new record she can’t wait for the world to hear. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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