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Pride & Prejudice: Homophobic DJs in the Age of Twitter
Photo via Tanner RossJune is Pride month, a recognition of how some first world cultures have evolved to accept marginalized and often criminalized queer subcultures, when we celebrate an openness that...
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Musical Memories of Dads and Fatherhood
In honor of Father’s Day, Pitchfork staff and contributors recall their musical memories of their fathers, of being fathers, and explore the lives and loss of their dads.Marc Masters: The first record...
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Kanye West Is Going to Drop a Brick and It's Going to Hurt
Kanye West’s seventh studio album remains a mystery. No one knows if it is finished, if he’s scrapped several versions of it, if he’s still tinkering with it, or if it’s been sitting somewhere, done,...
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Amy Winehouse, Kurt Cobain and the Gendering of Martyrdom
In the same season we’ve been presented with two different comprehensive documentaries of two of our most iconic and tragic, gone-too-soon figures in recent decades. Brett Morgan’s Montage of Heck...
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Taylor, Apple, Tidal and The Politics of the Rip Off
In 1981, the record business was in a lengthy post-disco slump, and labels were looking for quick ways to keep shareholders happy. MCA developed the idea of what it called "superstar pricing," raising...
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It Me Taylor Swift Literal Underdog
At some point over the last few days, you’ve entertained the idea of purchasing Taylor Swift’s 1989 album. Hell, maybe you even did—or merely purchased just one "iTune" off it to be thrifty and ironic...
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Blog Rock Revisited: Musing the Clap Your Hands Say Yeah 10th Anniversary Tour
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are responsible for one of my most cherished memories of music consumption, because it’ll be the last of its kind. They inspired a visceral compulsion to spend $18 on an album...
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The Comedic Gold of The Decline of Western Civilization
"The first time we screened the film was at the Writers Guild in L.A. and this woman stood up and said, ‘How dare you glorify these heathens!’" says Penelope Spheeris following the screening of her...
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A New Collectivist Spirit in Electronic Music
Credits, clockwise from top left: Daniel Christensen, Ruskig, Ragnar Persson, Emma Ekstam, Daniel Christensen, Karla Marie Bentzen.A few hours after I interviewed Holly Herndon about her recent album...
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Jason Isbell, Kacey Musgraves, and the ‘Duality of the Southern Thing’
Photo via FacebookIf you are a music fan who brags the span of your tastes by saying you listen to "everything except country"—then you only know the genre’s fast food, not its home-cooked meals. Along...
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The Best and Worst Music of RuPaul's Drag Divas
Although ostensibly a competition to become "America’s Next Drag Superstar," "RuPaul’s Drag Race" has really always sought (and crowned) drag queens who can best expand and carry on RuPaul’s cultural...
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Op-Ed: Why There Are So Few Women on Festival Bills and Why That Needs to...
Photo via Crack in the RoadEarlier this week, the Guardian put hard data to the lingering issue surrounding the gender disparity of UK festival bills. Analyzing the country’s 12 biggest festivals, they...
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Take Down Your Flag: Americana’s Viral Response to Charleston
The last two weeks have been tumultuous, traumatic, and defining for the American south. The murder of nine black people by a white supremicist at the Emanuel Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston,...
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I Went to James Murphy’s New Wine Bar and All I Got Was More Confused About...
James Murphy knows where to see all of his friends tonight. When the former LCD Soundsystem bandleader announced he was opening The Four Horsemen, a Williamsburg wine bar, it seemed like an IRL...
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Summertime, Summertime: A Latin Freestyle Playlist
Plenty has been written about Haight-Ashbury and the South Bronx of the '70s, and thanks to about a dozen photo books, punk fans too young to have pissed in the CBGB bathroom know what the graffiti...
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Inside the Recording Sessions for Sufjan Stevens' Illinois
Earlier this year, Sufjan Stevens released Carrie & Lowell, his seventh studio album which was roundly lauded as his best work. But the definitive Sufjan album—the one that best exemplifies his...
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Pansy Division and the Evolution of Openly Queer Bands
Before Pansy Division took the stage last Friday night for their first headlining East Coast show in six years, a potent buzz of energy had already filled Bowery Electric’s downstairs performance...
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The Underground is Massive: A Look At the Birth of EDM
Michaelangelo Matos is remembering a particularly farcical moment from his days raving in the Midwest: "This woman was just making an ass of herself on the microphone. She was clearly fucked up on...
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Pussy Riot's Political Message Has Turned Into Pure Media Spectacle
With sporadic downpours scheduled throughout the weekend, it almost made sense when Pussy Riot pulled up to Glastonbury’s Park Stage in a tank last Friday, unlike much else about their appearance at...
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A Rihanna "Bitch Better Have My Money" Video Roundtable
Molly Beauchemin: I'm guilty of this, and maybe you are, too: When I first heard the lyric "your wife in the backseat of my brand new foreign car", I thought it was a boast of Rihanna's fly-ness, not a...
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