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WORLD PREMIERE!! FADER #62, our Summer Music issue, hits newsstands next week and these are the covers. But this week might be the end of us. We're seeing our latest coverstars Major Lazer at least three times and Phoenix hopefully twice. We're going to remix the entirety of Guns Don't Kill People Lazers Do on this new Major Lazer iDrum app and then drink some French wine with the Phoenix guys, or at least some kids who work at APC or maybe just by ourselves. We're going to hand out copies of our new issue like we're the rich uncle at the wedding and they are $20 bills and then we're going to pass out on Sunday and start making the next one on Monday (Jokes! We're already working on it.) So if you see us on the town before then, rambling and not smelling very good, just grab a copy and move along. We'll take showers next week, we promise.

Rough times for Neil Krug! Jussssst kiddding. Dude seems like he has it pretty sweet. Krug has been hanging in the desert with supermodel Joni Harbeck making PULP, a book of washed out, grainy, beat to shit photos that honor the tradition of old movie posters and magazines. Sounds just like our lives, except the supermodels and desert. In his spare time he's also been working on a movie called Invisible Pyramid that looks equally as trippy. It's supposedly about two women "escaping the loss of a loved one in search for an answer to their ambivalence." Works for us! That movie doesn't come out for awhile, so in the meantime watch a teaser video for Pulp up above, it will make you feel like a sweaty 13-year-old.

How sick would it be if you had $500? You could make it rain on your cat (Seriously I know you are not going to a strip club and we know you have a cat. Maybe a dog.) or you could buy one of these Michael Schmelling limited edition prints from his beautiful new book The Plan. Actually, we haven't seen it in person yet, just looked through the website book photos. Which are really intense. Looks like The Plan is to get a lot of stuff in your home and leave it all there forever until you die or it all rots and then Michael Schmelling comes over and takes pictures of it and then you look simultaneously cool and like a retard. Give Michael your money or just go to the book release celebration tonight from 6PM to 8PM at Aperture on 27th.

The Ukraine has the most new cases of AIDS infection in Europe and is amongst the nations in the world where the disease is spreading most quickly. Andrea Diefenbach's series of intimate and personal portraits deliver a remarkable and poignant photographic study of the epidemic there. Photographer, and regular FADER contributor Krisanne Johnson, whose own long-term work centers on AIDS, both in America (see her work about young African-American women with the disease in The Conundrum from FADER 57) and in Swaziland, spoke with Diefenbach about the project, which has been published as a book, AIDS in Odessa with a corresponding show at ClampArt, New York up now through June 6th. more...

Every release of an Icon issue is a special occasion, but this year is a little extra special because we've dedicated it to someone who's still around: man about town and former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne. We switched up the format and spoke to Byrne himself, as well as profiling five artists we think are carrying on his legacy, namely Grizzly Bear, Michael Bell-Smith, Theophilus London, Micachu & The Shapes and the Dutty Artz crew. There are also life maps, old photos, essays and weirdness. And as always, we've got a bunch of great bands in our Gen F section and a million other interesting things throughout, including a globetrotting fashion photo story of cyclists around the world (That one's for you, Byrne!). We've put together a mix of music from the issue, presented by Bacardi B-Live, that includes jams from Byrne, Salem, Joker, Pterodactyl, Grizzly Bear, Erup, Jahdan Blakkamoore, Theophilus London, Nipsey Hussle and more. Download it below and pick up a copy of the issue now at the newsstand of your choosing. When the paper wears out, come back to FADER.com for a free download of our issue PDF in two weeks.

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Dudes if you could see the FADER office right now you would see us completely ecstatic—ECSTATIC!—that we no longer have to make air horn noises with our mouths or an actual air horn (waste of money), because thanks to our dudes at Mad Decent we have the free MAJOR LAZER iPHONE APP. Take that one in for a second...this is the future of technology, and the future of technology is us having the ability to make cool noises just by putting our fingers on a screen.

Now this is a power move! Smack in the middle of the recession our dudes at PictureBox have opened the PictureBox Gallery, selling original works from some of the superstars they've published over the years, including stuff from Yuichi Yokoyama, Ben Jones, and—why not?!—an original and super rare Jack Kirby piece. You're not going to find this stuff anywhere else (except on the walls of our living rooms when we buy it all) so get browsing.

One of the many excellent films screening this month at the Tribeca Film Festival is Paola Mendoza and Gloria La Morte's Entre Nos, which also stars Mendoza as a new immigrant to New York City from Colombia who struggles with her young children to make it through some serious hard times. This should be a familiar them to anyone who saw Mendoza in FADER Films' 2005 release On The Outs, which she co-created with directors Lori Silverbush and Michael Skolnik. Entre Nos had its world premiere at the festival on Saturday, but you can catch future screenings through the next several days at AMC Village VII in Manhattan. Watch the trailer above and get more details here.

Back in Issue #54, Julianne Shepherd introduced us to Meatpaper, a go-to source for meat enlightenment. We just discovered that they've finally gotten around to The Pig Issue. After missing The Brooklyn Bacon Takedown last month, we've been sensing a certain dirty pork void, but we feel a little better now knowing that there's such a thing as bacon therapy—even though it involves larvae removal (gross). Here is what Julianne originally said about Meatpaper in our NWS PRNT section:

Meat is a very American deal—the breadth of the industry, the fact that most of us evidently have no problem scarfing pre-packaged, once-frozen patties stamped out of god knows what nasty amalgam of beef parts. Yet we scoff at French folks who eat cow brains? Meatpaper chronicles animal flesh beyond its epicurean boundaries: an essay on meat in film recasts hamhocks as Rocky’s star, a photograph by Dominic Episcopo transforms a chop into the shape of California, an interview with a meat inspector finds that FedEx keeps millions safe from salmonella. Beneath that lies the idea that carnivorous impulses stretch past instinct into socialization, even to sophistication. As a vegetarian, it’s not gonna make me eat a rib, but now I know something interesting about blood sausage.

We can fully appreciate Monocle magazine mastermind Tyler Brûlé's notion that print should fight decline by adding richness—especially when part of that richness involves tailoring the capitalist anatomy to a hopeless economy. Last night Monocle had an opening party for their new LA pop-up store, showcasing a full array of goods, from back issues to luxury candles (only the essentials). We're curious to find out when Brûlé will be bringing an edition of The Monocle Shop to New York, where people (in this office… coordinating photos… named John) actually obsess over Monocle's thick and luxurious pages.

In FADER 58 we got deep into gay zine subculture and came out newly acquainted with a colorful genre. One of our favorite zines, They Shoot Homos Don't They?, particularly sparked a visual interest, so we recently sat down with TSHDT editor-in-chief, Shannon Michael Cane to talk more about the makes and shakes of his glossy magazine and to touch down on a few of the darker questions broached by the mag about the global gay community. Read the Q+A after the jump. more...

Every year Photo District News selects 30 amazing photographers it feels stand above and beyond the rest. Last year, FADER fam for life Dorothy Hong was awarded recognition, while this year not one but three FADER photographers were given the good look. Congrats go to Justin Maxon (whose frame-worthy image of Girls from F60 appears above), Dominic Nahr and Toni Greaves. We look forward to seeing their future work, both inside and outside the pages of The FADER.

Poor Takeshi Murata. According to this letter sent to Street Carnage, he developed the video recognition and compression technique used in both Kanye's "Welcome to Heartbreak" and Chairlift's "Evident Utensil", the latter which we and most other people said was Kanye's "inspiration." It turns out the true OG of fucked up video is, in fact, Murata who displayed said techniques in the Mailorder Monsters show at Deitch Projects in September 2007, a show Kanye apparently saw and loved. Conjecture, you say? Maybe not, as the letter was sent by Kathy Grayson, a gallery director at Deitch, who we're guessing is neither bowled over by celebrity visits nor has any interest in talking shit. Grayson also goes on to insinuate that the directors of both videos would be well-acquainted with Murata's work as he has given several seminars on the technique and been gracious with explaining his process. The cynical side of us would cite that "great artists steal" quote or say that if he didn't want to get jacked he shouldn't have thrown in his money in the sky, but neither of the music video directors appear to be great and Murata doesn't appear to have wanted anything other than a little credit. So, if you have a lot of money or need a crazy looking video or both, feel free to holler at Murata. more...

We're attempting to work today while watching the inauguration proceedings on TV, so please be patient if most of our posts are interrupted by all-caps freakouts and teary emoticons. If, like us, you were unable to make the journey to DC and don't have access to the boob tube, follow along on your computer at the following places and if your boss gives you lip, just laugh like he's telling a joke.

Live Webcast on MSNBC.com (also simulcast at a ton of Starbucks)
Washington Post's Inauguration Webcam
NY Times' The Caucus liveblogging the Inauguration
Live Web Stream of Swearing-In from the Office of Barack Obama
Official Inaugural Committee Twitter (Latest entry: "If you're still in transit to the Mall, we suggest you head west of 14th Street. Dress warm - feels like 12 degrees outside with wind chill.")

In case you didn't know from the interskreets, aka Charles Hamilton's blog or Little Boots' myspace: Our annual NOW issue, in which we intuit whose cassettes we will be maxing in our Walkmen for the entire year, is all about the flash and shine of Harlem delight Charles Hamilton and London glitteratess Little Boots. FADER 59 will hit newsstands and your doorstep in a few short days, and we'll be posting the entire thing here on Tuesday, January 13, exactly one week before the Inauguration. It's our time!

Wallpaper* recently enlisted some of the world's keenest eyes to pick the winners for their annual Design Awards, including two-time FADER coverstar and fashion intern Kanye West. The list includes fine hotels, beautiful cities and high fashion, all of which we happen to know Kanye knows a little bit about because he posts about them like a freak on his blog. The other judges were French architect Jean Nouvel, French fashion designer Ines de la Fressange, Australian industrial designer Marc Newson, British production designer Sir Ken Adam and Italian fashion designer Stefano Pilati, who may all have great credentials but have they ever made a song with Kid Sister? The Design Awards issue of Wallpaper* is on stands now with accompanying videos coming January 26th with the debut of Wallpaper Video.

Shout out to F2 writers David Bevan, Daniel Arnold, Jalylah Burrell, and Eric Steuer, and also, um, us for winning the 2008 Pearl Gold Award Reflecting Excellence in Custom Publishing for our online only magazine F2 (check out the brand new New Folk issue). Shout out, of course, to Timberland for making it happen. And also, shout out to the Pearl Awards for sending us a refractive trophy.

In the land of bad ideas, there can be only one… or two… three, at most. In a startling display of ill-conceived development deals, Will Smith and Steven Spielberg will remake Park Chan-wook's disturbing and awesome revenge epic Old Boy. If you have not seen the movie before and don't want your faith in Hollywood tainted, watch the above fight scene from the original film in which its star, Choi Min-sik, throttles about fifty dudes with a hammer, and then imagine Will Smith doing the same but with his requisite sass and probably a dog or small child tugging at his coat. Yesss, so awesome!

If you have seen the original or have no faith in Hollywood left to taint, watch this SPOILER clip and try to figure out how Spielberg and the American version's screenwriter, Mark Protosevich (co-writer of I Am Legend), plan to get around the taboo and resulting gnarliest scene ever that the entire film hinges on. After the jump, our spoilerific proposals for Will, Steven and Mark. more...

As avid New York City cyclists, we have been paying close attention to the CityRacks Design Competition which invited smart people from all over the world to come up with the Big Apple's sidewalk rack of the future. As could probably have been predicted, a couple of bike-happy Danes, Ian Mahaffy and Maarten De Greeve of Bettlelab, won with their "Hoops" concept (though they had a ringer in City Hall). The Department of Transportation will be installing 5,000 racks around the city, giving us all more places to park. We predict nothing will ever compete with a parking sign, but we're not design experts. Also, all that staring at fancy racks reminded us of the Neistat Brothers' video from a few years ago in which they steal their own bike in broad daylight in some of the busiest areas of the city (watch it after the jump). Maybe these new joints will be so beautiful to look at that people will actually notice when a dude takes a blowtorch to your Kryptonite.

Anyway, speaking of the Neistats, as we read in the premiere issue of TAR magazine, they will have an 8-episode series on HBO early next year that will collect some of their old videos and some new ones and will maybe look something like this. more...