The Best 25 Tracks of 2024
The best tracks of 2024 according to Crack Magazine, featuring Fontaines D.C., FKA twigs, Kendrick Lamar, Charli xcx, Chappell Roan and more.
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The 50 Best Albums of 2024
The 50 best albums of 2024 according to Crack Magazine, featuring Fontaines D.C., Cindy Lee, Tyler, the Creator, Charli xcx and more.
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The 50 Best Albums of 2024
Featuring Charli XCX, Bladee, MJ Lenderman, Tyla, xaviersobased, Jessica Pratt, and more.
Addded Dec 3, 2024
The 100 best songs of 2023
From Sexyy Redd to Liturgy and Fever Ray to Ralphie Choo, these are the songs we loved in 2023.
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The 50 best albums of 2023
From bar italia to billy woods and yeule to Yves Tumor, these are the albums The FADER loved in 2023.
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The Best Pop Music of 2023
Opulent disco-pop, R&B hook-up jams, raging hot-mess anthems: These are the songs and albums that defined the year in pop music.
Addded Dec 12, 2023
The 50 Best Albums of 2023
Featuring Sufjan Stevens, Kali Uchis, SZA, boygenius, Caroline Polachek, André 3000, and more
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DJ Babatr: the roar of raptor house
Caracas' DJ Babatr demonstrates the energy of raptor house in a fiery mix, and speaks to E.R. Pulgar about the scene's origins, the violence and racism that marred its evolution, and taking his sound to the world.
Addded Aug 24, 2023
The Death and Rebirth of Natalia Lafourcade
The singer-songwriter calls De Todas Las Flores, her first full LP of original music in seven years, “my salvation, my relief, the replanting of seeds.”
Addded Oct 28, 2022
‘Everything Comes From the Underground’: The Global Promise of Reggaeton Darks
From neoperreo and post-punk covers of mainstream reggaeton hits to indie bands injecting dembow into their sound, this hard-to-pin goth reggaeton offshoot can -- and does -- go everywhere.
Addded Sep 26, 2022
The phantasmagoric poetics of Lucrecia Dalt
The Colombian sound artist and former geotechnical engineer’s interests lie beyond the physical world.
Addded Sep 11, 2020
Lido Pimienta Is the Queer Artist Making Latin Music of the Past and Future
The Afro-Indigenous musician discusses her Polaris Prize-nominated album "Miss Colombia" and wanting to shine a light on the Black roots of Latin music.
Addded Aug 28, 2020
Bad Bunny Is Not Playing God
He’s solidified his place in the Latin hip-hop pantheon while subverting the genre’s machismo via his inclusive sound, message and look. But beneath Bad Bunny’s trap-god exterior, the 26-year-old from Puerto Rico is just trying to get it right
Addded Jul 7, 2020
Princess Nokia gets free
With 'Everything is Beautiful' and 'Everything Sucks', the New York rapper continues to defy those who would box them in.
Addded Apr 15, 2020
How Bad Bunny Became the Sound of Home for Millions of Latinx Fans
When X100PRE dropped, the trap star’s debut album helped give a generation of Latinx listeners a sense of place.
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Buzzcocks' Steve Diggle Looks Back on Their Pop-Punk Classics
The current lineup, consisting of Diggle, Chris Remington and Danny Farrant, is set to play the Royal Albert Hall on June 21 alongside The Skids.
Addded Jun 19, 2019
New Book Explores William S. Burroughs' Impact on Rock Music
The Beat Generation's influence on culture at large is indisputable, but the mark it left on rock music isn't quite as well known.
Addded Jun 10, 2019