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A Diva in the Streets, a Bad Bitch in the Sheets: On Jordin Sparks' "Double Tap"
"She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down."― Zadie Smith, White Teeth"Shout out to...
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An Evening with Dreamcrusher
Two weeks ago, a crowd huddled in a posh brownstone in Williamsburg braced themselves for a noise show. Cups of oat, almond, and soy milk were served to accompany platters of vegan chocolate chip...
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EDM Has a Problem with Women, and It's Getting Worse
Skrillex keeps putting butts in my Twitter feed. One butt, actually—a woman's, clad in tight, fuchsia bikini bottoms. There's a front view of her, too, complete with an anatomically improbable thigh...
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Music on Film: Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
Music On Film is a column from The Dissolve recommending movies fans of music should make a point of checking out.When a band gets big enough, it ceases to become primarily an organic artistic...
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Nine Totally Not Fake Reasons for the Modest Mouse Album Delay
In a recent interview with Billboard, Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock explained why it took so long to put out their recent Strangers to Ourselves. "We kept having people come in to work on the...
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The Unbearable Whiteness of Indie
It was an early Spring morning, the soft yellow light crept through dusty floral curtains as the young white lady arose from her upcycled bed, tenderly, ready to embody Stuart Murdoch’s archetype of an...
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What Must I Do to Be Born Again?: The Open Hands of Kendrick Lamar
Photo by Jessica Lehrman"If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you." This...
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Bitch Better Have My Roundtable: Rihanna's #BBHMM
Yesterday, Rihanna released the latest single, "Bitch Better Have My Money", from her forthcoming new album. We polled Pitchfork contributors about their initial impressions.Safy-Hallan Farah: On...
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Queer Rap is Not Queer Rap
Photo by Erez AvissarHow are we supposed to talk about "queer rap", if at all? Is it a scene? A genre? A burgeoning movement? Or, perhaps none of the above? Is this just a case of a handful of...
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PC Music's Inverted Consumerism
Photo by Daniel CavazosI drank from two aluminum rocket cans during the music portion of this year's SXSW. One was handed to me by a woman in a bright yellow Lipton T-shirt who had been hired to pass...
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Ted Cruz and the Conservative Takeover of Mainstream Rock
Photo by Jamelle BouieSometimes softball questions can be the most revealing ones.At the end of an interview last Tuesday on CBS This Morning, anchor Gayle King asked newly-minted Republican...
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The Revival of Cherubs
You could easily substantiate that 1992 was a banner year for the original wave of noise rock: The Jesus Lizard’s Liar, Babes in Toyland’s Fontanelle, the Melvins’ Lysol, Helmet’s Meantime, the Cows’...
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Who Got the Camera? N.W.A.'s Embrace of "Reality," 1988-1992
This is an excerpt from The Pitchfork Review Issue Five, which is available now through the magazine's website and select retailers. Get your subscription here. Illustration by Meaghan Garvey"Express...
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Waiting For Jeremih
Illustration by Meaghan GarveyIf you call 773-779-5683, it’ll ring, then: "Sorry, the mailbox is full, and there is not enough space to leave a message." It’s been that way since August 2012, when Late...
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Queer Rap is Not Queer Rap
Photo by Erez AvissarHow are we supposed to talk about "queer rap", if at all? Is it a scene? A genre? A burgeoning movement? Or, perhaps none of the above? Is this just a case of a handful of...
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Tidal and the Elusive Promise of Streaming Music
Monday brought the splashy relaunch of Tidal, the hi-fi streaming music service offered by the Swedish company Aspiro and now helmed by a slew of boldfaced-name "artist stakeholders," including Jack...
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When Divas Talk Back
Pop music, like queer sex, changes the world because it feels good. This is as good an explanation as any for the long history of gay men identifying with pop’s divas. But what of the divas who have,...
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The Prosperity Gospel of Rihanna
Photo courtesy of NBCUniversalMoney is unclean. Cash flows; as it slips constantly out of debtor’s hands into creditor’s, fingerprints, stains, emotional and moral significations muck up the paper—over...
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Are You Even Real? Music and Identity in the Digital Age
This February, Father John Misty released I Love You, Honeybear, a pretty folk album that doubles as an exposé of our generation’s subconscious. Critics have zoned in on "Bored in the USA", a mournful...
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Invisible Hits: The Miracle of The B52's, Live in the Early Days
Close to four decades after forming, the B52's remain one of the strangest and most radical American rock bands to achieve widespread acceptance. There are myriad reasons why a band as weird and...
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