The FADER Podcast

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...

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 stud...

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

James Blake talks to The FADER's David Renshaw about new album Friends That Break Your Heart and why you rarely hear a break-up song about a friendship.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New York rapper Wiki talks to The FADER's Jordan Darville about songwriting, gentrification, and coming into his own as an artist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The FADER's Editorial Director Alex Robert Ross calls Tom Delonge to talk about Angels & Airwaves's new album Lifeforms, but the conversation quickly turns to the unknown, the likelihood that the Star of Bethlehem was a UFO, and the ways in which consciousness can manipulate matter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Experimental artist Moor Mother talks to The FADER's Jordan Darville about paying tribute to people’s stories through music, her new album Black Encyclopedia of the Air, and her favorite song on Kanye West’s Donda.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The FADER's Sajae Elder talks to Usain Bolt, the fastest man in history, about his favorite music, his desire to be the DJ Khaled of dancehall, and his new album Country Yutes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The FADER's Editorial Director Alex Robert Ross catches up with Turnstile's Brendan Yates to talk about the band's experimental instincts, their return to the road after a long hiatus, and the experience of recording their wild new album GLOW ON on a farm in the middle of nowhere. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

George Clarke and Kerry McCoy of blackgaze titans Deafheaven tell The FADER's Editorial Director Alex Robert Ross about the band's first decade, their ability to turn off the critical noise when they need to, and Clark's struggles in inventing a new voice from scratch on new album Infinite Granite. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sixteen-year-old pop phenom Glaive tells The FADER's Alex Robert Ross about his unexpected rise to fame through lockdown, the way his process has changed as he's gone from his bedroom in North Carolina to studios in L.A., and his mom's favorite song on All Dogs Go To Heaven. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mike Hadreas, a.k.a. Perfume Genius, tells The FADER’s Shaad D’Souza about his new Substack, his excellent last album Set My Heart On Fire Immediately, and his music for the 2019 dance piece The Sun Still Burns Here.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mackenzie Scott, better known as Torres, tells Alex Robert Ross about time, space, past lives, and her new album Thirstier. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices