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Heaven Adores You: The Darkness and Light of Elliott Smith
Heaven Adores You, the new documentary celebrating the work and life of Elliott Smith, opens appropriately grim and muted, with the requisite interviews with close friends and associates who start to...
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Pitchfork Podcast 37: Best New Music
Host Mark Richardson talks with senior editor Brandon Stosuy and tracks editor Jenn Pelly about new albums from Flying Lotus, Caribou, Ex Hex and Iceage, records that were all awarded the site's Best...
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Shake Appeal: MAMA, Wet Blankets, Lilith Velkor, Fa Bonx, Exhaustion
Shake Appeal is a column that highlights new garage and garage-adjacent releases. In the 50th installment, Evan Minsker discusses the latest from MAMA, Wet Blankets, Lilith Velkor, Fa Bonx, and...
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Mixdown: Gunplay, Rome Fortune, Childish Gambino
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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The Musical Legacy of "Twin Peaks"
Last week, David Lynch and Mark Frost announced the return of "Twin Peaks", the cult TV show they co-created in 1990. The show, which ran for two seasons before ending on a cliffhanger, would pick up...
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Can I Take You to the Bay with Me?: An Intro to RnBass
Though RnB has garnered critical attention the last few years, the genre has been experiencing an exciting facelift coming out of the West Coast, where producers and artists have been revolutionizing...
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Proper Hi-Fi: Ten Essential Clark Songs
Photo: Chris HewittThink of how life must've been for 22-year-old electronic producer Chris Clark in 2001. Having signed to the same label as iconic artists like Squarepusher, Boards of Canada, Aphex...
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Real Wild: A Decade of Jandek in Public
Above: Jandek in the one-act play kooken, streaming November 15th at Hardly Sound.Ten years ago today, Jandek came out. The mysterious musician who had made almost 40 records in seclusion, with no...
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RIP Drake's Career: 2009-2014
Aubrey "Drake" Graham had a fruitful music career that ended Friday night at a midnight basketball practice held at the University of Kentucky. Drake leaves behind classic albums like 2010's Take Care,...
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Erykah Badu and Other Musicians Who Have Busked on the Street for Fun
Last Wednesday Erykah Badu made $3.60 while busking for money in New York City—a tradition that goes back to 1700, apparently, and a subtle reminder that Americans wouldn’t know Art from a Fart unless...
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Hell Awaits: Mantar, Planning For Burial, A Pregnant Light 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 Mantar, Planning For Burial, A Pregnant...
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Pitchfork Podcast 39: Sleater-Kinney
In this week's edition of the Pitchfork Podcast, managing editor Brandon Stosuy talks to associate editor Jenn Pelly about Sleater-Kinney's reunion, their new box set Start Together, and the band's...
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Shake Appeal: Timmy's Organism, Quintron, Sick Thoughts, Gino and the Goons,...
Shake Appeal is a column that highlights new garage and garage-adjacent music. This time, Evan Minsker looks at new records by Timmy's Organism, Quintron, Sick Thoughts, Gino and the Goons, the...
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Who Said It: Ariel Pink or Glenn Beck?
Ariel Pink is best known for his bizarro-world Phil Spector sugar bomb songs but what comes out of his mouth when he's not singing is what has made him infamous: strange rants amid interviews, wild...
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Welcome to New York: Taylor Swift, Kirsty MacColl and the Commodified City
This week, New York’s official tourism bureau named Taylor Swift as its Global Welcome Ambassador based on the civic merits of her latest single from 1989, “Welcome to New York.” The city, sings Swift,...
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The Ear on Terror
I’ll be the first person to admit that my love of horror movies, though passionate, is somewhat idiosyncratic. I love horror movies both good and okay, but only if they stay within certain boundaries:...
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1989 vs. 1989: Are Women Finally Dominating the Top 40?
Taylor Swift's 1989 will most certainly be crowned as the No. 1 album in America at some point this week; reports this weekend said that Swift's hard push out of country-crossover territory was on...
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Know Your Queen: Perfume Genius Queers Up Letterman
Perfume Genius' Mike Hadreas wore bright red lipstick for their network television debut last week on "Late Show With David Letterman". Clad in a blindingly white power suit, heels, and a shiny black...
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Shake Appeal: Davila 666, AJ Davila Y Terror Amor, Sonny Vincent, Flesh...
Shake Appeal is a column that highlights new garage and garage-adjacent music. This time, Evan Minsker looks at a new singles compilation from Davila 666 and the latest from AJ Davila Y Terror Amor,...
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Last Sour Patch House On The Left
Jeff was first to go but he was our bass player so it wasn’t till day 39 that we noticed. There was already a smell, like deep wells and damp wool, but we were touring and we’d run out of Gold Bond...
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