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Vivian Medithi

Reporter · US

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Sep 23, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 23, 2026 · Vivian Medithi

    Julia Holter’s Materia was inspired by touring and her past demos (opens the original)

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    Julia Holter wanted to play a new song. It was 2024, in between spring and winter tours supporting her spring album Something in the Room She Moves, and she wanted something different for her band to play. The composer and songwriter returned to her demos and played around in Logic until music materialized. “It wasn't really supposed to be a record in my head at first,” Holter tells The FADER from her Los Angeles home on August 13, 2026. “It was just that I wanted to make this song. But th

  2. Article · Sep 2, 2026 · Vivian Medithi

    Kelela wants her songs to feel as complex as real life (opens the original)

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    Kelela’s songwriting process can be painstakingly slow. It doesn’t help that sometimes, not even she knows what she’s trying to say. “Oftentimes when I'm singing in gibberish over the instrumental, there are word sounds that come out. So I am always deciphering on some level what it is that I'm trying to say,” the D.C.-born artist explains on an August 28 video call from her NYC apartment. “So I do take a longer time to write lyrics than a lot of people because I'm trying to craft th

  3. Article · Sep 1, 2026 · Vivian Medithi

    Chxrry is the whole show (opens the original)

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    Baby's All Right was simply too small. That was my biggest problem as I snaked through the backroom thicketed with fans anxiously awaiting Chxrry. When I interviewed the Canadian singer-songwriter earlier in the summer, U, Me & My Ego had yet to release. Three months out and it’s safe to say Chxrry has launched herself into the center of pop girl conversations thanks to that record’s shamelessly emotive lyrics and forward-thinking fusion of synthpop, rage, and R&B. Her latest sold-out tour a

  4. Article · Aug 25, 2026 · Vivian Medithi

    Take a tour of LES with Judah Weston (opens the original)

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    “I always just liked the rapper persona — cars, girls, chains, shit like that,” Judah Weston tells The FADER. “Now that I’m in it, I really don’t like the rapper persona. It’s not that cool to me.” Judah Weston is a fast-rising rapper from Manhattan’s Lower East Side and the star of a new documentary by The FADER. Alongside his brother and producer IsoKeys, the recent high school graduate has found a path to local stardom through his blunted raps, which might meander around the

  5. Article · Aug 24, 2026 · Vivian Medithi

    The Opener: Sk8star sounds like the future of Atlanta trap music (opens the original)

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    The Opener is The FADER’s mini-interview series with exciting new artists we think you should know. Sk8star is a true artist, the sort of rapper who never seems totally satisfied with a song until every adlib and 808 is adjusted just so. That deep-rooted musicality was all over his February album Designer Junkie, which enlisted Atlanta legend Richie Souf and his ØWay buddies for a near-psychedelic trap album that channeled Future, Gotit, and Keed in equal measure. And although he’s less hyp

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