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Shake Appeal: Sonic Avenues, Heaters, Bugs, Chiefs
Shake Appeal is a column that highlights new garage and garage-adjacent releases. This week, Evan Minsker talks about new releases from Sonic Avenues, Heaters, the Chiefs, and the Bugs.Sonic Avenues:...
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Selected Max Tundra Works 85-97: Now on Bandcamp
Somewhere in London a man who goes by the name Max Tundra is hopefully working on some new music. He tends to do this slowly, and with the haunted precision of a perfectionist. Not that he needs to...
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Hell Awaits: Vemod, Bölzer, Vinterbris, and More
Hell Awaits is a column by Kim Kelly and Andy O'Connor that shines a light on extreme and underground metal. This week, Kim recommends new releases from Vemod, Bölzer, Vinterbris, and more. Welcome to...
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Black Joy on Television: The Cultural Legacy of Soul Train
Photo: Soul Train Holdings LLCFirst, watch this:That right there is an innovative and extremely influential artist in action, displaying a unique style and incredible stage presence. James Brown ain’t...
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Mixdown: The Next Generation of ATLiens
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, Baltimore...
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Shake Appeal: Free Weed, the Memories, Lumpy & the Dumpers, LiveFastDie,...
Shake Appeal is a column that highlights new garage and garage-adjacent releases. Get dumb with Evan Minsker this week as he digs into new stuff from Free Weed, the Memories, LiveFastDie, Shockwave...
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Don't Call It an Emo Revival
photo: Into It. Over It., via zacottoson's InstagramErudite, gregarious, well-connected, and extremely savvy, Evan Weiss of Into It. Over It. (and numerous other bands) has become something of a...
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Among the Common People: A Film About Pulp
Florian Habicht’s Pulp is not a biographical film. Its subject is a concert—Pulp’s homecoming show and tour finale at the Motorpoint Arena at the end of 2012—but it isn’t really a concert film, either....
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On Jesse Winchester, Being Young, and Letting Go of My 60s Nostalgia
A few weeks ago, an American singer/songwriter named Jesse Winchesterdied of cancer. A folkie of the early 70s, he was raised in Memphis but moved to Canada in his twenties to avoid the draft. His...
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Hell Awaits: Enabler, Graves at Sea, and More
Hell Awaits is a column by Kim Kelly and Andy O'Connor that shines a light on extreme and underground metal. This week, Andy recommends new releases from Enabler, Graves at Sea, Desecresy, and more....
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Roadburn Festival: Heavy Music's Best Kept Secret
photo by Paul Verhagen, via Roadburn's websiteRoadburn Festival is one of heavy music’s best kept secrets through no fault of its own. Each year, it draws several thousand people from all corners of...
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Pitchfork Podcast 22: Neil Young and Pono
On this week's Pitchfork Podcast, Pitchfork editor-in-chief Mark Richardson talks to staff writer Evan Minsker about Neil Young's new record A Letter Home and the launch of Young's new digital music...
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Bounce Ballroom: A Night of Voguing, Flexing, and Housing
For something called dance music, dance itself doesn’t have much of a central role in the culture surrounding it. Dancing, as in what you do with your friends on the dance floor at the club, is of...
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Shake Appeal: Klaus Johann Grobe
Shake Appeal is a column that highlights new garage and garage-adjacent releases. This time, Evan Minsker talks to Klaus Johann Grobe, aka two Swiss dudes who just released a very good new LP on...
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Invisible Hits: The Earliest Known R.E.M. Bootleg
Bands never really spring into the limelight fully formed. Behind every group, there are months—sometimes years—of conceptualizing, rehearsing, trial and error. Most musicians, understandably, would...
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Hell Awaits: Auroch, Trepaneringsritualen, Bombs of Hades and more
Hell Awaits is a column by Kim Kelly and Andy O'Connor that shines a light on extreme and underground metal. This time, Kim recommends new releases from Auroch, Trepaneringsritualen, Bombs of Hades and...
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Mixdown: XXL's Freshman Class
Welcome to Mixdown, an ongoing series where Pitchfork staffers and contributors talk about mixtapes, mixes, and other beat-based ephemera that may not be covered in our reviews section but are worth...
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"Everywhere We Go": Sufjan Stevens at the New York City Ballet
When else would a Sufjan Stevens show open with Kristen Bell singing a song from a Rodgers & Hammerstein musical? The whole opening night of “Everywhere We Go”—the new ballet scored by Stevens and...
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Pitchfork Podcast 23: Swans
On this week's Pitchfork Podcast, editor-in-chief Mark Richardson talks to Brandon Stosuy about the long career and artistic resurgence of Swans. Listen below or via the Pitchfork Weekly app.
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Sunny Day Real Estate's Diary at 20
Sunny Day Real Estate’s Diary turned 20 this past Saturday without much incident—no Deluxe repackaging, no exhaustive oral histories, no live-action restaging of the “Seven” video. We are living in an...
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