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New Garage Rock from Angie, White Fence, Ivy, Terrible Twos, and Thee Goochi...
Shake Appeal is a column that highlights new garage and garage-adjacent releases. This week, Evan Minsker discusses the debut from Sydney's Angie, a live album from White Fence, a demo from New York...
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Down Is Up 07: Reissues From Neo Boys and Androids of Mu
Down Is Up discusses music that falls slightly under the radar of our usual coverage: demos and self-releases, as well as output from small or overlooked labels and communities. This week, Jenn Pelly...
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What Did New York Sound Like in the Roaring Twenties?
"Historians are the helots of academe," my grad-school advisor used to say. Take advantage of all that labor, he urged—you won’t believe what they’ve managed to find till you take a look. Or a listen....
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Mixdown: The Delusional Edition
Welcome to Mixdown, an ongoing series where Pitchfork staffers and contributors talk about mixtapes and mixes that may not be covered in our reviews section but are worth discussing. Today, we're...
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Reflektor Debuts at #1—But Why Haven't Arcade Fire Conquered the Singles Chart?
Photo by Guy ArochFirst-week sales of 140,000 were enough to give Arcade Fire a No. 1 album, as Reflektor takes the penthouse on the Billboard 200 album chart.If you’re a regular chart-watcher, that...
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New Garage Releases From Scraper, Growwing Pains, Strange Attractor, Pizza...
Shake Appeal is a column that highlights new garage and garage-adjacent releases. This week, Evan Minsker discusses the latest from California punks Scraper, Detroit's Growwing Pains, Sudbury's Strange...
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Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival and the Changing Landscape of New York Fests
photo by Will DeitzThe most surprising thing that happened at this year’s CMJ Music Marathon in New York City had nothing to do with music. On the second day of the October festival, news broke that a...
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Lady Gaga's artRave: The Beginning of the End of the Extravagant Album Launch?
Pictured: Jeff Koons' sculpture of Lady GagaIn the increasingly out-of-control arms race of 2013 album pre-release campaigns, Lady Gaga's artRave was the A-bomb. Held at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on...
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Down Is Up 08: Swearin's World
Down Is Up discusses music that falls slightly under the radar of our usual coverage: demos and self-releases, as well as output from small or overlooked labels and communities. This week, Jenn Pelly...
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Mixdown: The Projectile USB Stick Edition
Welcome to Mixdown, an ongoing series where Pitchfork staffers and contributors talk about mixtapes and mixes that may not be covered in our reviews section but are worth discussing. This week we're...
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An Introduction to U.K. Dance Label Black Butter
You probably know Rudimental, the London-based dance collective whose album Home (released this past April) spawned two No. 1 hits in the U.K. Along with tracks by Disclosure, Duke Dumont and Chase...
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Sacred Trickster: A Noise Benefit with Kim Gordon
Near the end of Kim Gordon's performance last night at Issue Project Room, she wailed into a harmonica, her briefly abandoned guitar hanging from her shoulder—a signature moment of searing noise and...
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New Garage Releases From the Limiñanas, So Cow, Image Makers, George Brigman,...
Shake Appeal is a column that highlights new garage and garage-adjacent releases. This week, Evan Minsker discusses the new album from the Limiñanas, a split from So Cow and Image Makers, a reissue of...
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Beautiful Noise: Martin Aston's 4AD Book, Reviewed
"The aim was to make music with punk’s energy but more finesse and beauty," says Cocteau Twins guitarist Robin Guthrie in Facing the Other Way: The 4AD Story, Martin Aston’s sprawling and excellent new...
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Bouncing Back: The Street Kings (and Queens) of New Orleans
photos by Puja PatelIt’s rare that you hop into a taxi and the driver already knows where you’re headed. Such was the case on October 26, when I said I was going to the Treme neighborhood of New...
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Mad Rich Alert: Yeezus Comes to Brooklyn
Last night, Kanye West’s supposedly embattled Yeezus tour came to town for the first of four NYC dates. Spoiler: It went off without a hitch, unless you’re getting really nitpicky (and/or you were...
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Did Lady Gaga's ARTPOP Actually Flop?
If you’re a pop music fan and you’ve been on the internet this week, you’ve probably read some of the chatter surrounding the lackluster debut of Lady Gaga’s third full-length, ARTPOP. Mother Monster...
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Mixdown: The Yeezus Tour, Rich Kidz, Blood Orange
Welcome to Mixdown, an ongoing series where Pitchfork staffers and contributors talk about mixtapes and mixes that may not be covered in our reviews section but are worth discussing. Today we're...
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New Garage Releases: The Gories, Cheap Time, Buck Biloxi and the Fucks, Sonny...
Shake Appeal is a column that highlights new garage and garage-adjacent releases. This week, Evan Minsker discusses an archival live record from the Gories, the latest from Cheap Time, a new...
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The 5 Best Things That Happen in Pharrell's 24-Hour Music Video
I watched the entirety of Pharrell's new 24-hour music video "Happy"—on mute, in 2-hour chunks, over the course of several days; that is how I am still alive. Watching 400 Southern Californians dance...
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