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13 Thoughts on the Fugazi Live Archive’s "Completion"
With the release of Fugazi’s epoch-launching 1988 recording “First Demo,” Dischord is also a stone’s throw away from closing the book on their extraordinary Fugazi Live Archive project. Here are 13...
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Op-Ed: The Dirty Business of the Corporate Remix
It’s 2014 and you are waiting for the remix. You liked the original but you couldn’t dance to it. It’s more of a driving song, you think. You want to hear it again, but with a drop. Familiar, but more...
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UPDATE: How Foo Fighters, OK Go, the xx and Other Bands Trapped By The...
Interpol isn't the only touring act to be adversely effected by the massive dumping of snow in upstate New York. The Pitch checked in with other bands and artists to see how they are making the most of...
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Mixdown: Jaden Smith, Chief Keef, Boosie Badazz
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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DC 85: A New Video Archive for Old DC Punk
Lately there’s a nostalgia trip circling '80s punk in Washington, DC. The scene’s central label, Dischord, has made numerous reissues and archival releases in the past few years, including an LP of...
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Pitchfork Podcast 41: Wilco
Pitchfork Podcast: "Pitchfork Podcast 41: Wilco" On this week's Pitchfork Podcast, host Corban Goble talks with Senior Editor/resident Wilco-ologist Ryan Dombal about two new Wilco compilations, the...
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Lana Del Rey and the Language of the Violent Image
It's been an especially fatiguing few weeks of rape narratives in popular culture, with the latest entry—leaked clips of an unexplained project from director Eli Roth, featuring Lana Del Rey portraying...
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Op-Ed: Ariel Pink’s "Joke" Isn’t Funny Anymore
Like an alt-rock extension of a self-satisfied 4chan user, Ariel Pink continues his episodic PR campaign to offend. Between the ageist dig at Madonna, stating that he was "maced by a feminist", and...
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The general response around the death of Michael Brown and the Ferguson protests from the hip-hop community was tepid. The few gestures made sparked little conversation on the issue, which perhaps...
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An Open Letter to David Guetta Regarding Your Partnership with Chase
Dear David,Late last week, I learned that you had partnered with Chase bank to give Chase Visa or debit cardholders early access to your new album, Listen. Apparently, those who registered their cards...
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The Sound of Serial: Composer Nick Thorburn Explains the Making of the...
Serial: the podcast to rule all podcasts. Since its first episode was released on October 3rd, it's been downloaded or streamed over 5 million times. With about 1.5 million listeners per episode,...
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The Most Crucial And Yet Totally Overlooked Releases of 2014 and a...
The following piece is excerpted from issue 4 of Pitchfork's quarterly print magazine, The Pitchfork Review, which is available on newsstands now. Discounted subscriptions are available through the...
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Shake Appeal: Red Aunts, Ajax, Vanity, Deformity, Cellphone, Legendary Wings,...
Shake Appeal is a column that highlights new garage and garage-adjacent music. This time, Evan Minsker looks at a retrospective comp from Red Aunts, plus new records by Ajax, Vanity, Deformity,...
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Why Did Blues Traveler’s “Run-Around” Matter in 2014?
If you got sick of 1994 in 2014, you weren’t alone. If an album from that year didn’t get a 20th anniversary reissue, it got a 20th anniversary thinkpiece. Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Green Day,...
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Op-Ed: You Can Make Money Touring (But Not If You're Pomplamoose)
Last week, Jack Conte of Pomplamoose published an article rallying against the notion of "making it", addressing the fallacy that they have "made it", all the while outlining how they lost money on a...
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Essential Reading: The Art Behind the Tape
In 1991, DJ Mars moved from Springfield, Mass., to Atlanta to found his crew Superfriends and back OutKast during its first tour. Then, he watched the South take over hip-hop, as chronicled by...
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Op-Ed: 2014: The Year That Cyberpunk Broke
My most recent album, The Future’s Void, deals with topics such as corporate data mining and surveillance, feeling vulnerable and estranged by my feminized online self, and an examination of...
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Three Points Missing From the Streaming Media Debate
At every new flashpoint (Taylor Swift, Steve Albini most recently) in the streaming debate we are met by a torrent of think pieces. Here are three points that are routinely glossed over that should be...
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Getting Into Enya: A Rough Guide to the Queen of New Age
You can take for granted a few things in any Enya song: the instruments will sound canned, everything will be drenched in reverb, and her voice, multitracked to oblivion, will steal the show. It is her...
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The Girls With The Most Cake: The Parallel Ambition and Artistry of Courtney...
Photo by Hedi SlimaneWhen Courtney Love and Lana Del Reyannounced that they will be touring together next May, the consensus seemed to be that it was because Del Rey openly espouses Love's late...
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