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Are the Download and the LP Reissue That Different?
photo: Canary Records' No One Cares: International 78rpm discs, ca. 1912-55Recently, Jack White’s Third Man Records raised the bar for reissuing historical 78s. The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records,...
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Down Is Up 09: The Courtneys, Puce Mary, Hysterics
Down Is Up discusses music that falls slightly under the radar of our usual coverage: demos and self-releases, as well as output from small or overlooked labels and communities. This week, Jenn Pelly...
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New Garage Releases: Sick Thoughts, Fuzz, Gentlemen, and more
Shake Appeal is a column that highlights new garage and garage-adjacent releases. This week, Evan Minsker discusses the debut LP from Baltimore's Sick Thoughts, a new live record from Ty Segall's band...
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Morrissey's Frustrating, Occasionally Brilliant Autobiography
All successful men are self-made in hindsight, and their memoirs prefer to dwell on struggle and talent over support and good luck. Morrissey is no exception: "It is quite true," he says near the end...
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Down Is Up 10: Exploring the Danish Underground
Down Is Up discusses music that falls slightly under the radar of our usual coverage: demos and self-releases, as well as output from small or overlooked labels and communities. This week, Jenn Pelly...
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Sky Ferreira's "I Blame Myself" and the Power of Vulnerability
Sky Ferreira’s biggest asset may very well be her bluntness. On and off her records, she says things that you can imagine inspiring some squirming inside the Capitol Records Tower. And after the rough...
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Mixdown: The I Promise I Will Never Stop Crushing on Mike Bibby Edition
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. This week we're...
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Revisiting the Strange and Wonderful Soundtrack to Robert Altman's Nashville
Robert Altman’s 1975 film Nashville opens with an ad for itself. A fast-talking commercial heralds the main actors ("the amazing Lily Tomlin!"), as though they were lots in an auction or artists on a...
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Neil Young's Missing Archives
The Neil Young Archives series has kept its targets mostly clustered around a thin slice of his long career: 1968-1971, the brief era stretching from Buffalo Springfield’s dissolution to the cusp of...
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Down Is Up 11: Milk Music's "No, Nothing, My Shelter" Video
Down Is Up discusses music that falls slightly under the radar of our usual coverage: demos and self-releases, as well as output from small or overlooked labels and communities. This week, Jenn Pelly...
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How Beyoncé Broke the Rules and Stormed the Charts
In a 2013 fourth quarter that has seen virtually every leading contender for the Queen of Pop title drop a new album, Beyoncé just trumped everybody, crashing in late last week with an eponymous set...
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My Year in Music: Brandon Stosuy
We asked Pitchfork writers and editors to share their personal highs and lows of 2013. Check back for more installments of My Year in Music throughout the next two weeks.Favorite Tracks of 2013:01...
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My Year in Music: Mike Powell
We asked Pitchfork writers and editors to share their personal highs and lows of 2013. Check back for more installments of My Year in Music throughout the next two weeks.Favorite Tracks of 2013:01...
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My Year in Music: Amy Phillips
We asked Pitchfork writers and editors to share their personal highs and lows of 2013. Check back for more installments of My Year in Music throughout the next two weeks.Favorite Tracks of 2013:01...
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Kranky Records at Twenty
"Thanks to Joel," Implodes guitarist Matt Jencik offered at the end of their Thursday night set at the Empty Bottle. "I bought my copy of Prazision the week it came out. I guess that shows my age. But...
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My Year in Music: Stuart Berman
We asked Pitchfork writers and editors to share their personal highs and lows of 2013. Check back for more installments of My Year in Music throughout the next two weeks.Favorite Tracks of 2013:01 The...
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My Year in Music: Evan Minsker
We asked Pitchfork writers and editors to share their personal highs and lows of 2013. Check back for more installments of My Year in Music throughout the next two weeks.Favorite Tracks of 2013:01...
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My Year in Music: Jenn Pelly
We asked Pitchfork writers and editors to share their personal highs and lows of 2013. Check back for more installments of My Year in Music throughout the next two weeks.Favorite Tracks of 2013:01...
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My Year in Music: Larry Fitzmaurice
We asked Pitchfork writers and editors to share their personal highs and lows of 2013. Check back for more installments of My Year in Music throughout the next two weeks.Favorite Tracks of 2013:01...
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My Year in Music: Jonah Bromwich
We asked Pitchfork writers and editors to share their personal highs and lows of 2013. Check back for more installments of My Year in Music throughout the next two weeks.Favorite Tracks of 2013:01...
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