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Shake Appeal: Cretin Stompers, Watery Love, Flesh Wounds, Eastlink, Advlts
Shake Appeal is a column that highlights new garage and garage-adjacent releases. This time, Evan Minsker gets into new releases from Memphis' Cretin Stompers, Philadelphia's Watery Love, Chapel Hill's...
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"Love Never Felt So Good": Three Takes on Michael Jackson's New Hit
My favorite song released so far this year is a study in contradictions. Its bones are over 30 years old, but it lines up perfectly with reigning pop trends. It’s the lead single from the latest...
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Mobile Miniatures: Download Ringtones Composed by Nico Muhly, Julia Holter,...
Normally my iPhone ringer is set firmly to "off," but I recently changed it to a new piece by the esteemed composer and one-time Pulitzer finalist Augusta Read Thomas. It's a 35-second, anxious tangle...
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How To DJ Your Own Wedding
Illustration by Joy BurkeThis weekend, I’m getting married. Morgan and I have been together for over seven years at this point, and we’re having a small ceremony at her parents’ house in the woods....
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Can the Japanese Digital Pop Star Hatsune Miku Cross Over in the West?
Earlier this week, a collaborative video between Pharrell and Japanese graphic designer Takashi Murakami appeared online. The mind behind “Happy” remixed “Last Night, Good Night,” the theme to...
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The Problem with the Billboard Music Awards
Quick, what was the top song of 2011, according to Billboard? Go on, think back to where you were three years ago now, and what was pumping out of your radio.Did you say Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep”?...
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Hell Awaits: Midnight, Pavillion Rouge, Grst, 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, Andy recommends new releases from Midnight, Pavillion Rouge, Grst, and more....
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Smoking Session: A Report From D'Angelo's Red Bull Music Academy Interview
Photos by Drew Gurian/Red Bull Content Pool Let's get this out of the way: No, D'Angelo did not announce a release date for his mystically delayed third album at his Red Bull Music Academy interview...
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Pitchfork Podcast 25: Why Coldplay's New Album Is Terrible
On the latest Pitchfork Podcast, host Corban Goble talks with features editor Ryan Dombal and reviews editor Larry Fitzmaurice about Coldplay's new album, Ghost Stories. Listen below or via the...
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Mixdown: New Singles From Nicki and Wayne, Plus Upstarts King Mez and Noelz...
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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Shake Appeal #30: Giant-Size Edition
Shake Appeal is a column that highlights new garage and garage-adjacent releases. Evan Minsker skipped a week, which means there's a huge backlog of awesome rock'n'roll records for this week's edition....
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Hell Awaits: Alraune, Sea Bastard, Triumvir Foul, Musk Ox, Vilkacis, Iron Hawk
Hell Awaits is a column by Kim Kelly and Andy O'Connor that shines a light on extreme and underground metal. This time, Kim sizes up new metal from Alraune, Sea Bastard, Triumvir Foul and...
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Standing Still: The Stagnant Life of Baltimore Club
Photo: TT the Artist by Olivia ObinemeWhen frantic Baltimore club DJ and producer Matic 808 remixed every track from Kanye West’s Yeezus last summer, it was the first time in a long while that...
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Rise Above Your Station: An Evening With the Mountain Goats' John Darnielle
Image via Housing WorksHousing Works is a non-profit Soho bookstore that fights AIDS and homelessness, where Mountain Goats singer John Darnielle is about to read from his forthcoming debut novel, Wolf...
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Pitchfork Podcast 26: Hundred Waters' new The Moon Rang Like A Bell
On the latest Pitchfork Podcast, host Corban Goble talks with Pitchfork editor-in-chief Mark Richardson about L.A.-via-Florida indie rock outfit Hundred Waters' The Moon Rang Like A Bell, which was...
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Shake Appeal: Zig Zags and Dishrags
Shake Appeal is a column that highlights new garage and garage-adjacent releases. This week, Evan Minsker's been spending a lot of time thrashing to Zig Zags' cartoonishly menacing and awesomely heavy...
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Fever Pitch: The Most Memorable Songs of the World Cup
Illustration by Joy Burke Every four years, the World Cup swallows the world whole, and on June 12, the Brazilian World Cup begins in São Paolo. Historically, FIFA's globe-hopping event has inspired...
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Why Hot Sauce Committee Part Two Is a Fitting Finale for the Beastie Boys'...
Photo by Ari MarcopoulosWhen Adam “MCA” Yauch passed away two years ago, people mourned him as an artist and a human while also taking the opportunity to celebrate the group he belonged to, the Beastie...
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Tough Sell: Pharrell's Performance at the Apollo
The second wind that Pharrell's career has recently experienced has been a pleasurable occurrence in the monoculture, but the surprise of his latest career renaissance has only been matched by its...
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Protect Your Inner Teenager: A Conversation With We Are the Best! Director...
Following a recent screening of We Are the Best!, a new masterpiece of punk-themed cinema, I had the opportunity to speak with its director, Lukas Moodysson. Since his 1998 debut film Show Me Love, the...
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