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A Look At New Documentaries On DJ AM and Mary J. Blige
Music documentaries in 2015 are increasingly preoccupied with commemorative storytelling, as some of this year’s most prominent narratives zoom in on issues and people that take longer than a 20-minute...
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What We Learned From the Music of "Mad Men"
The pilot of "Mad Men", in large part, is about establishing the fact that the show takes place in a different time. The first thing to appear on-screen after the title sequence is a card explaining...
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A Day With Christine and the Queens
Four days after arriving in New York City for the first time ever, Christine and the Queens performed for Hillary Clinton. "I think I won her over," Christine says, deadpan, walking out of her hotel...
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Is 2015 The End of The Golden Era of Rap DJs?
The modern rap mixtape was established in 2005. Though mixtapes have existed since rap’s earliest days, DJ Drama and Young Jeezy’s Trap or Die reimagined what a mixtape could be. "That was the mixtape...
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Third Eye Blind, Dashboard Confessional and the Cultural Shock of Millennial...
Children of the '90s will remember this: "Semi-Charmed Life" dominated rock radio, MTV, and VH1 in glorious trifecta for the duration of the summer of 1997, followed by the nearly two-year-long tail of...
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Adjust Tracking: The Surprise Success of Metallica's Video for "One"
In the late evening hours of early 1989, MTV played the video for "One" by Metallica for the first time. Though it was the third single from …And Justice for All—the band’s second album for Elektra...
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PC Music, Hipster Runoff and the Year of the Internet Hangover
I’ll always associate the year 2011 with Glass Swords, the debut album from Rustie, the Glaswegian producer of the Hudson Mohawke school of aesthetics. It’s kind of lazy to hold up cover artwork as a...
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Disco Goes to Bollywood: A Rough Guide
The music of Bollywood spans a history of over 100 years; it is ever-evolving and cannot be restricted to one or two genres. Key numbers hold perennial and significant cultural relevance all over the...
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33⅓: Devo's Freedom of Choice
After breaking out nationally as an art rock curiosity with their Brian Eno-produced debut album Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! in 1978, Devo disappointed critics, their label Warner Brothers, and...
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How Mitski and K Rizz are Debunking Asian Female Stereotypes in Music
Photo via InstagramWhether it’s Gwen Stefani’s dancer-posse Harajuku Girls or Puccini’s Madame Butterfly, the way Asian women are portrayed in music culture is no different from how they are...
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To Make Other People Feel What You Feel: The Truth of B.B. King
1.If you really want to know something about B.B. King, consider this: He saw a boy lynched when he was a teenager.He talks about it in a 2013 interview with Tavis Smiley. He recalls that the victim, a...
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Banned in DC Is Back in Print: An Interview with Cynthia Connolly
Banned in DC: Photos and Anecdotes From the DC Punk Underground (79–85) burst into the world in December of 1988 with a humble print run of 2,000 copies thanks to the laborious efforts of...
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Lil Mama "Sausage" Staff Roundtable
Pitchfork staff and regulars weigh in on the juiciness of Lil Mama’s "Sausage", her first single in years, and ask Is this metaphorical breakfast meat jawn enough to feed us all summer long?Molly...
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Will Lexington in Real Life: Chris Carmack on "Nashville", Starting His Music...
Of all the actors on ABC's "Nashville", Chris Carmack has one of the toughest jobs. He plays Will Lexington, the hunky new boy in town who quickly shoehorns his way into industry parties. He eventually...
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Hollywood's EDM Problem Is Becoming Ours
There are two really good movies about dance music DJs: Party Girl and It's All Gone Pete Tong. Maybe they're even great, minor classics in their own way. But neither of these were mass market hits in...
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Op-Ed: Why Is Violence Against Women Excusable If It’s "Art"?
The online petition created last week protesting the booking of Action Bronson at NXNE has, as of this writing, 42,843 signatures. Those numbers are evidence of how well the real issue here—standing up...
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Shake Appeal: The Dream of the '90s is Alive in Garage Rock
It's time for another Shake Appeal, Evan Minsker's garage/punk/psychedelic/etc. music round-up. There's some good new music in here, but let's be real: The best stuff in this edition is reissues of...
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In Defense of the Indefensible: Coldplay's X&Y at 10
"Coldplay is absolutely the shittiest fucking band I’ve ever heard in my entire fucking life," wrote Chuck Klosterman in a bitter screed from his 2003 collection of essays Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs....
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Yo La Tengo’s Five Best Covers
Photo by Carlie ArmstrongThis week Yo La Tengo announced the release of new record, Stuff Like That There, and they’re doing it in a distinctively Yo La Tengo way. Marking their 30th anniversary, the...
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The Future of Independence: David Bazan and Kevin Devine
Photo by Adrian BischoffWhen Radiohead released In Rainbows in 2007, the music industry thought it opened up a whole new world of possibilities: if one of the biggest rock bands on the planet’s big...
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