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The Pitchfork Top 10: Week 2's Top 10 List
Here are the 10 tracks we counted down on this week's installment of the Pitchfork Top 10, which can be heard each week in January on Beats 1. Last week we counted down the Top 10 tracks of 2015. Tune...
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Invisible Hits: David Bowie's Early Rarities
For many listeners, the David Bowie odyssey begins in earnest with his 1969 hit single "Space Oddity." And for the most part, Bowie himself went along with this timeline, only rarely referencing his...
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Else Marie Pade, Denmark's "Grandmother of Electronic Music," Is Dead at 91
Else Marie Pade was the first person in Denmark to make music using electronics. A radio producer, she began composing with tape and oscillators in the 1950s, and yet she was barely acknowledged at the...
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How Music Helped “The Adventure Zone” Podcast Get Better
The podcast field is dominated by long-established comedians, celebrities, and major media outlets. But the medium has a few organic stars of its own, including brothers Justin, Travis, and Griffin...
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Can LCD Soundsystem Finally Fulfill James Murphy’s Dream of a Number One Album?
Photo by Leigh Ann HinesThat’s how it starts: They go back to the stage. As one of the most acclaimed live acts of the last decade, LCD Soundsystem will, naturally, kick off their long-predicted...
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Macklemore’s "White Privilege II" Is a Mess, But We Should Talk About It
There is one argument against himself that Macklemore doesn't explicitly make in his just-released song, "White Privilege II," and it's important to get this argument out of the way because it's most...
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The Pitchfork Top 10: Week 3's Top 10 List
Here are the 10 tracks we counted down on this week's installment of the Pitchfork Top 10, which can be heard each week in January on Beats 1. Check out last weekend's list here, and tune in this...
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Kanye West's "Awesome": An Appreciation
Photo by Erez AvissarIn a few weeks, we will be able to hear a new Kanye West song called "FML," which is awesome. Not so awesome: The fact that Kanye's hand-scrawled tracklist does not include the...
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Kris Needs’ Dream Baby Dream: Suicide — A New York Story Is a Crucial Biography
Suicide are the cockroaches of New York rock—and that is a compliment. While so many scenes, movements, and characters burned through Manhattan in the past five decades, the duo of Martin Rev and Alan...
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13 Photos of Father John Misty Looking At His Phone
If you’ve heard the name Father John Misty, it's likely you’re familiar with his particular brand of trolling. Since its digital birth, Tillman’s Instagram has become home to some peculiar content—160+...
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Has a Royalty Change Doomed Small Webcasters?
Photo by Marco VolpiOn December 16, a relatively obscure U.S. administrative body issued rules with broad implications for online music. Every five years, the Copyright Royalty Board, or CRB,...
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The 8 Best Mixes of the Month
Welcome to the first installment of a new column for the Pitch, where I'll be running down the best DJ mixes to have crossed my desk in the month prior. Wrapping up January 2016, we've got all manner...
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In Praise of Robert Ashley's Beautifully Strange Final Opera
Photo by Paula CourtRobert Ashley’s operas are indescribable experiences, so you can forgive the press materials surrounding the world premiere of his final, posthumous "opera," Quicksand, for sounding...
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The Pitchfork Top 10: Week 4's Top 10 List
Here are the 10 tracks we counted down on this week's final installment of the Pitchfork Top 10, which aired each week in January on Beats 1. Check out last weekend's list here.10. Tourist: "To Have...
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How the Trainspotting Soundtrack Resurrected Iggy Pop
Diane: "Iggy Pop? I mean the guy’s dead anyway."Renton: "He’s not dead! He toured last year, Tommy went to see him!"—Trainspotting, 1996If you had told a music fan in 1976 that Iggy Pop would outlive...
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Remembering J Capri, Dancehall Star
At the 2015 Reggae Sumfest, the largest and most popular concert series in Jamaica, budding dancehall superstar J Capri (aka Jordan Phillips) delivered one of her last live performances. Since 1993,...
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Zayn Malik, Desi Thirst Trap
Can brown boys be sexy? Throughout my childhood in the late '90s and early '00s, it was easy to turn to music, or television, or cinema, or any arena of popular culture and believe that the answer was...
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Maurice White Outside of Earth, Wind & Fire
Maurice White and Philip Bailey; photo by Rob Verhorst / Getty ImagesMaurice White, who died yesterday, will always be synonymous with Earth, Wind & Fire. But the group’s founder, co-frontman, and...
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Jazmine Sullivan on Songwriting's Labor of Love
Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty ImagesHer voice alone has always been a marvel: her grade-school performance of Dorothy in The Wiz might reasonably have driven singers three times her age into early...
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Inside the Kanye West Think Tank
Most of Kanye West’s best music has been produced using a think-tank approach—take a group of people, put them in a room, see what comes of it—and his imminent seventh album looks to take a similar...
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