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Mixdown: Que, The Guys, Ty Dolla $ign
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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Hell Awaits: Sumerlands, The Sabbathian, Albez Duz 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 Sumerlands, the Sabbathian, Albez Duz...
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Shake Appeal: Germ House, Sluts, Wyatt Blair, Negative Scanner, Great Dismal...
Shake Appeal is a column that highlights new garage and garage-adjacent releases. This week, Evan Minsker discusses a pile of music from New Mexico's Germ House, New Orleans hardcore originators the...
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In Praise of Jens Lekman's Excellent Curveball, WWJD
On my very first day of college, a future friend eyed me up and down as we were walking to our first orientation session and said, "Did you see Jens Lekman at Pitchfork Music Festival this summer?" I...
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Mixdown: P. Reign, Lil Bibby, Father
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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Pitchfork Podcast 33: HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEYONCÉ + Fall Releases
On this week's podcast, host Corban Goble talks with Pitchfork editors Ryan Dombal and Larry Fitzmaurice about upcoming fall releases from Interpol, Jessie Ware, Charli XCX, Foo Fighters, Lil Wayne and...
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Shake Appeal: The People's Temple, Teenanger, Acid Baby Jesus, The Memories
Shake Appeal is a column that highlights new garage and garage-adjacent releases. This time Evan Minsker discusses new records from the People's Temple and Teenanger, plus a new video from Acid Baby...
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"Anaconda", "Pacific State", "Sueño Latino", and the Story of a Sample That...
You may have noticed a peculiar sound ricocheting through pop music recently: a springy sort of trilling noise, the kind of thing you could imagine being used as a sound effect in a Woody Woodpecker...
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A Shot In the Arm: Jeff Tweedy Beyond Wilco
Photo by Autumn de WildeSukierae, the first album from Jeff Tweedy’s new project with his son Spencer, isn’t exactly the Wilco frontman’s solo debut. But it’s about as close as he’s gotten so far—the...
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Diving Into Gucci Mane's 2014 Vaults
Since Gucci Mane's failed crossover attempt in 2009, he’s consistently moved in and out of jail, seemingly with more time in than out. That hasn't stopped him from being a preeminent Atlanta—and by...
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The Discarded Tracklist for U2's New Album, Songs of Innocence
As you're probably already aware of, U2 announced and surprise-free-released their new album, Songs of Innocence, today at the conclusion of Apple's latest product-unveiling event, where the tech...
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Hell Awaits: Sinmara, Moss, Death Fortress 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 Sinmara, Moss, Death Fortress and...
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Safe From Harm: Drugs and Festival Culture
I called Missi Wooldridge, the Executive Director of a nonprofit drug testing and harm reduction agency called Dance Safe, because I was curious about the surge in ecstasy-related deaths at music...
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Down Is Up 23: Belave and Major Tendons Compilation
Down Is Updiscusses music that falls slightly under the radar of our usual coverage: demos, self-releases, and output from small or overlooked communities. Today, Jenn Pelly highlights the Majical...
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Shake Appeal: Allah-Las, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Michael Psycho,...
Shake Appeal is a column that highlights new garage and garage-adjacent releases. This week, Evan Minsker points out records from Allah-Las and BRONCHO, plus reissues from Michael Psycho and Deaf Wish...
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Arcade Fire's Funeral and the Legacy of the "WHOA-OH"
Ten years ago this week, Arcade Fire released Funeral, an album that not only transformed this once-ramshackle Montreal orchestro-rock collective into instant indie-rock icons, but forever transformed...
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PC Music's Twisted Electronic Pop: A User's Manual
What is PC Music? A label, a scene, a subgenre, a red herring? It may be all of these things at once. The shadowy operation and its bewildering brand of hyper-pop have been everywhere in the past few...
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Boss Your Life Up: Detroit's Not-So-New Wave of Street Rap
Any claims of internet-age rap’s “post-regionalism” only go so far when considering Detroit, a perennially underwritten city for about as long as rap’s existed, save for that one time Eminem won an...
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Pitchfork Podcast 34: A User's Guide to PC Music
On this week's podcast, host Corban Goble talked to contributing editor Philip Sherburne about the mysterious collective PC Music, a group of electronic musicians Philip detailed earlier this week in...
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Shake Appeal: MUSK, Wand, Sick Thoughts, John Wesley Coleman, Yes I'm...
Shake Appeal is a column that highlights new garage and garage-adjacent releases. This week, Evan Minsker talks about new records from MUSK, Sick Thoughts, John Wesley Coleman III, Yes I'm Leaving, and...
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