Learn about Tidal’s Upload Headliners competition—a contest for rising artists awarding 10 artists $100,000 each. The first ...

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Meet Homixide Gang, (Beno! and Meechie) who are expanding the Opium-verse and opening for Playboi Carti on The Antagonist ...

At the turn of the millennium, Nelly made history with the party anthem "Hot in Herre." After its release, the song reigned number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for seven consecutive weeks. It starts ...

The FADER’s longstanding GEN F series profiles the emerging artists you need to know right now. ADVERTISEMENT Cortisa Star has a utopian vision for the club. “There's four stories,” she explains near ...

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 the late aughts, a party trend emerged in street dances in Jamaica that followed a “uniform party” theme in which attendees—mostly between the ages of 17 and 25—would arrive in some exaggerated ...

Flow Festival in Helsinki, Finland is bringing together music's best and brightest for their upcoming 2026 edition. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, sombr, Florence + The Machine, and PinkPantheress are ...

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 ...