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Modern Baseball and How Emo Grew Up
In the late '90s and early 2000s (and today still, to some extent), pop-punk and emo was created in large part by young, straight, white, suburban males whose lyrics tended to be preoccupied with the...
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Beyond the Bootlegs: Bob Dylan's Unreleased Holy Grails
To date, Bob Dylan's ongoing Bootleg Series has launched more than 40 discs worth of previously unreleased material at fans, spanning wobbly home recordings made when Dylan was still a Minnesota teen...
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10 Essential Tracks from Must-Hear Electronic-R&B Producer Kingdom
Ezra Rubin, the 33-year-old producer who records as Kingdom and runs the influential label Fade to Mind (alongside partner-in-crime Prince William), has been releasing music that draws on sleek house...
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Chance the Rapper’s Magnificent Coloring World Brightens Up Chicago
A few days after the release of Coloring Book, Chance the Rapper’s third solo mixtape, Chance took to Twitter to announce a special event: “Dear Chicago, I have something special for you this Saturday,...
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Catching Up with the NFL's Biggest Indie Rock Fan, the Eagles’ Connor Barwin
The Philadelphia Eagles underwent their most chaotic off-season in team history, so it’s understandable if most people overlooked the effect new defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz’s Wide-9 alignment...
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The Bad Boy Reunion Was Actually Ladies Night
When was the last time you saw every urban radio hit from 1994 to 2003 performed in one night?This past weekend, when the Bad Boy Family Reunion Tour kicked off at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, it was...
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Moogfest: The Ultimate Music Festival for Nerds
"The future of creativity lies in its birthplace, the human mind,” says Dr. Martine Rothblatt from the stage of the Carolina Theatre in downtown Durham, North Carolina this past weekend. The...
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Car Seat Headrest Sucks at Poker and Actually Likes Kanye’s TLOP Rollout
Our interview series Icebreaker features artists talking about things—some strange, some amusing, some meaningful—that just might reveal their true selves. This edition features indie rock wunderkind...
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Clams Casino On His Long-Awaited Debut LP, 32 Levels
Back in 2011, Michael Volpe was a physical therapy student in New Jersey, interning at a hospital full time. That same year, he released the influential Instrumental Mixtape–his first beat tape as...
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M.I.A. vs. the System: A Complete Timeline of Her Controversies
Earlier this month, M.I.A. addressed the possibility of leaking her forthcoming album. “I would love to leak it,” the London-based artist also known as Mathangi “Maya” Arulpragasam said in a Periscope...
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Jim James On Why My Morning Jacket's It Still Moves Reissue Sounds So Different
On September 9, 2003, both high temperatures and humidity throughout the southern United States were in the low 80s. New York was feeling pretty stuffy, it was raining in Seattle, and even Los Angeles...
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17 Pitchfork Staffers Name Their Song of the Summer
Welcome to summer. It's officially time to start thinking about The Song Of The Summer, that world-dominating track that sounds much more appealing now than it will by the time the leaves turn. The...
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The 7 Best Mixes of May 2016
As we come sauntering into summer, it helps to have a little something to set the vibe. And here we do: various somethings, in fact, for various types of vibes. For the path of least resistance—the...
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8 Song of the Summer Contenders, According to the Radio Programmers Who...
In theory, we each define our own songs of the summer. In practice, for better but sometimes for worse, certain songs will be as constant between Memorial Day and Labor Day as the smell of ozone and...
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Justin Bieber Will Probably Settle His White Hinterland Lawsuit, Even Though...
White Hinterland (née Casey Dienel)’s recently filed lawsuit against Justin Bieber has all the makings of a classic cautionary tale from the music industry: respected indie-pop singer-songwriter has...
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The Stars of Popstar Answer a Tiger Beat Questionnaire
This week, the Lonely Island return with Popstar, a feature-length mockumentary that puts a fun-house mirror in front of modern music stardom—with all its Snapchat pandering, messianic complexes, and...
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Why Are People So Mad About The Hotelier's NSFW Cover for Goodness?
In a Tumblr post from earlier this year, Christian Holden of the Hotelier grappled with a band’s responsibility to address the big issues once they’ve reached a certain platform. After building up a...
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Beach House’s Guide to Music Festivals and Keeping It Interesting on the Road
Around the time Alex Scally started Beach House with Victoria Legrand in 2004, the guitarist and keyboardist was working alongside his father as a carpenter in Baltimore. It’s training that’s served...
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An Ode to Chicago’s Empty Bottle, the Last Great Indie Rock Dive Bar Standing
The Empty Bottle in Chicago is the last great indie rock dive bar standing. It’s a spot that seemed like a good place to host bands at some point because it simply existed, but went on to become...
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J Mascis’ Greatest Guitar Shreds on Other People’s Songs
Alt-rock heroes Dinosaur Jr. announced last week that they’ll release another new album from their excellent and hard-to-believe-this-is-still-a-thing Act II, their fourth LP since reuniting in 2005....
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