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Iman Shumpert is the Best Rapper in New York
Taylor Swift disqualified because she is in Tokyo.
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Mixdown: Migos, Future, Drake
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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"Ladies First" and the Best All-Female Posse Cuts of the Last 25 Years
Twenty-five years ago today Queen Latifah released her debut All Hail the Queen; its single "Ladies First", a woman-power anthem that also featured British emcee Monie Love, cemented them in hip-hop’s...
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The Flaming Lips and Miley Cyrus Perform "A Day In The Life" on "Conan"
The Flaming Lips recently released With a Little Help From My Fwends,a cover album of songs from the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Miley Cyrus was one of the guest artists featured on...
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Jean Grae's Spectacular Second Act
Jean Grae was initially aligned with the independent hip-hop scene of the mid-'90s, where she was continually labelled a "femcee" (like it’s all high heels and a Jansport), she’s since blown that...
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Op-Ed: The Power and the Price of Being A Woman On Stage
In a 1987 diary she penned while on tour with her band Sonic Youth, Kim Gordon wrote, "The most heightened state of being female on stage is watching people watch you." On stage, with my band White...
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Hell Awaits: Yellow Eyes, Aksumite, Mare Cognitum 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 Yellow Eyes, Aksumite, A Mare Cognitum, and...
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Shake Appeal: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Bad Indians, Paperhead,...
Shake Appeal is a column that highlights new garage and garage-adjacent music. This time, Evan Minsker looks at new albums from King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Bad Indians, Paperhead, Icky...
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Invisible Hits: The Many Moods of Yo La Tengo
In light of Yo La Tengo’s 30th anniversary this year, Ira Kaplan has been offering up three decades worth of tour diaries on the band’s website. If fans have learned anything from this daily rundown of...
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Your Favorite Rapper's Shoes: A Gift Guide
This fall, several of your favorite rappers have released name-branded sneakers. Pitchfork associate editor Corban Goble and Pitchfork contributor Wesley Case run down your best bets for the fall and...
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Why 2014 Was the Year of the "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend"
"You can tell me when it’s over, if the high was worth the pain," sings Taylor Swift in the video for "Blank Space", a song from her recent 1989. "Got a long list of ex-lovers, they’ll tell you I’m...
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FKA twigs, Lorde, and the New Feminist (Dance) Movement
Looking at the last few years of performances by platinum acts like Beyoncé, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus, and Nicki Minaj, one takeaway is immediate: female pop artists are unified by their...
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The Sea, the Sea and Their Video That Only Took 3,454 Oil Paintings to Make
A police van flickers in the gloom. An ambulance pulls up. And a taxi drives into the night, past billboards and bridges and fleets of its fellows, the entire metropolitan landscape rendered in blurred...
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The Late Night Tales of Father
A couple weeks back the east Atlanta rapper Father of the Awful Records crew sent a Snapchat of a web browser showing a woman gleefully playing with a dildo. I viewed it a couple of times in an attempt...
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Shake Appeal: Sick Thoughts' 2014 in Review, Matthew Melton, The Memories
Shake Appeal is a column that highlights new garage and garage-adjacent music. This week, Evan Minsker breaks down Sick Thoughts' obscenely prolific 2014. He also looks at the new albums from Matthew...
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Maybe It's Time to Stop Caring About Nicki Minaj
Maybe it's time to stop caring about Nicki Minaj. Not as a human being or a person—because, you know, life is precious and everyone's a unique snowflake that adds to the fabric of life through mixed...
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Pharmakon, Sound Art, and Expressing Bodily Disturbance Through Noise
"I don’t belong here, I don’t belong here, I DON’T BELONG HERE," says Margaret Chardiet, her voice rising with the repetition into screams. The song is "Bestial Burden", the title track of her 2014...
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Chris Cunningham, Jesse Kanda and The Grotesque Femininities of Arca's "Xen"...
When Chris Cunningham's Rubber Johnny came out on DVD, it was the grossest thing on display at the record store. Grown men easily twice my age squirmed when I bought it. "I don't even want to know what...
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Essential Reading: Check the Technique Vol. 2
Flip to any page in Brian Coleman’s latest tome, Check the Technique Vol. 2, and you'll likely find a revelation that reflows hip-hop history and/or blows your mind. There's MF DOOM, in the midst of...
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