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Mixdown: Drake at the ESPYs, Lil Durk, I Can't Rap, and Dukie from The Wire...
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: The Yolks, the Achtungs, Las Rosas, Gross Pointe, Durban...
Shake Appeal is a column that highlights new garage and garage-adjacent releases. This time, Evan Minsker highlights new releases from Chicago's Yolks and Finland's Achtungs, a new video from Las...
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Hell Awaits: Churchburn, Kvlthammer, Rome, 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 sizes up new releases from Churchburn, Kvlthammer, Rome and more.Churchburn:...
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Young Forever? A Chat About Katy Perry's Prismatic Tour
photos by Chelsea Mae HassmanEarlier this year, Ryan Dombal, Jordan Sargent, and Lindsay Zoladz attended Miley Cyrus’s Bangerz Tour, which they declared “the most fun we will have at a concert in...
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Shake Appeal: A Conversation With Aweful Kanawful
Shake Appeal is a column that highlights new garage and garage-adjacent releases. This week, Evan Minsker shares a conversation with the Rochester, New York enigma Aweful Kanawful, who recently...
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Merge 25’s Strip Mall Parking Lot Dance Party
Bob Mould by PJ SykesThere was a moment at Merge 25 on Saturday, the day the label hosted an outdoor show in Carrboro, North Carolina to celebrate its 25th anniversary, when a few hundred people were...
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Invisible Hits: Peter Laughner, Guitar Anti-Hero
“Take the guitar player for a ride.” Legions of Wilco fans know these words by heart as part of the band’s “Misunderstood”, originally released on Being There in 1996 and played at most of their...
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Sonic Storybook: Brian Beattie's Ivy and the Wicker Suitcase
Any album with guest appearances by Bill Callahan, Okkervil River’s Will Sheff, and Daniel Johnston is automatically going to be worth a listen. But, notable as they may be, the contributions of those...
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Shake Appeal: The Ar-Kaics, Sick Thoughts, Lucern Raze, SLUGZ
Shake Appeal is a column that highlights new garage and garage-adjacent releases. In this week's edition, Evan Minsker looks at new stuff from Richmond's the Ar-Kaics and SLUGZ, Baltimore's Sick...
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Lewis and Mystery in the Age of Information
Ask me and I'll swear to you that I saw Lewis backstage at this year's Pitchfork Festival. Not because he was there—he wasn't—but because there is so much longing in me to fix a real person onto this...
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Hell Awaits: Secret Cutter, Moonknight, Antiversum 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 O'Connor sizes up new releases from Secret Cutter, Moonknight, Antiversum...
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Shake Appeal: Obnox, Hank Wood & the Hammerheads, Flesh Wounds, Ivy
Shake Appeal is a column that highlights new garage and garage-adjacent releases. This time, Evan Minsker digs into four very good records from Obnox, Hank Wood & the Hammerheads, Flesh Wounds, and...
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Senior Moments: Why More Albums by Middle-Aged Artists Like Tom Petty and...
The news last week that veteran band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers scored its first No. 1 album—yes, ever—prompted a number of reactions, ranging from “Petty’s still got it…classic rock rules!” to...
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Hell Awaits: Disemballerina, Khold, Heavydeath 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 Kelly sizes up new releases from Disemballerina, Khold, Heavydeath and...
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Mixdown: Jeremih, Kool John, iLoveMakonnen
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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Invisible Hits: Kraftwerk: The Missing Years
For the past few years, the German techno pioneers Kraftwerk have been putting on a live series called The Catalogue 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 at museums and concert halls in the U.S. and Europe. The dazzling,...
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My Decade in Music So Far: Marc Masters
This week, Pitchfork shared lists featuring the best albums and tracks of the decade so far. We asked Pitchfork writers and editors to share a favorite song and album that didn't make the list, along...
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My Decade in Music So Far: Jamieson Cox
This week, Pitchfork shared lists featuring the best albums and tracks of the decade so far. We asked Pitchfork writers and editors to share a favorite song and album that didn't make the list, along...
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My Decade in Music So Far: Meaghan Garvey
This week, Pitchfork shared lists featuring the best albums and tracks of the decade so far. We asked Pitchfork writers and editors to share a favorite song and album that didn't make the list, along...
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My Decade in Music So Far: Brandon Stosuy
This week, Pitchfork shared lists featuring the best albums and tracks of the decade so far. We asked Pitchfork writers and editors to share a favorite song and album that didn't make the list, along...
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