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9 Record-Related Records Jack White Could Break
Earlier this week, Jack White and his Third Man Records announced plans for something big: They’re going to be the first people toplay a record in space. This is just the latest in a long line of...
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Nintendo 64's Hidden Musical Gems
In 1985, when Nintendo rolled out its first-ever home video game console, Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), in America, the company wasn’t expecting sales to rocket as quickly as they did. Their...
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Frank Ocean's Boys Don't Cry: The Complete Timeline
When Frank Ocean released his debut album channel ORANGE, Psy’s “Gangnam Style” was an internet sensation, CERN had just discovered the Higgs boson, Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney would soon be a...
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Margo Price’s Spirit Animal Is George Costanza
Our interview seriesIcebreaker features artists talking about things—some strange, some amusing, some meaningful—that just might reveal their true selves. This edition features no-nonsense country...
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Wedding Bells at a Headbanger’s Ball: Getting Married at Ozzfest
The following story is featured in the latest issue of our print quarterly, The Pitchfork Review. Subscribe to the magazine here.On August 14, 2004, the Wisconsin village of East Troy was a beautiful...
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A Brief Interview with Muppets Drummer Animal, Who's Playing Outside Lands
The following story is featured in the latest issue of our print quarterly, The Pitchfork Review. Subscribe to the magazine here.Forget about the LCD Soundsystemreunion, Radiohead mystery concerts, and...
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We Need Missy Elliott's New Album Right Now
Less than two minutes into Blood Orange’s Freetown Sound, Ashlee Haze’s voice comes to the fore as she recites her poem, “For Colored Girls (The Missy Elliott Poem).” Her voice quivers with...
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Pixies’ Black Francis and Paz Lenchantin On Head Carrier and Replacing Kim Deal
Black Francis is at a car dealership having his van repaired. It isn’t clear where an interviewer would’ve expected the Pixies frontman to be, exactly, but when he mentions his location over the phone...
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Rostam and Hamilton Leithauser On Their New Joint Album, Sax Dreams, and...
The musical partnership between Hamilton Leithauser and Rostam Batmanglij began, as so many do, by disturbing the parental peace. The former lead singer for the Walkmen and the now-former...
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Lucy Dacus On What It’s Like to Have 20 Record Labels Fight Over You
Lucy Dacus’ success story could be considered one small antidote to a year when even the music news cycle has been unusually gloomy. Just nine months ago, the Richmond, Virginia-based singer/songwriter...
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Kesha’s Live Rebirth: What Her ‘Fuck the World’ Tour Means for Her Future
Three songs into her set in Atlantic City on Saturday (August 6), Kesha tells the crowd that her new music is “fucking awesome.” Then she apologizes for not being able to play it. Instead she will...
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What's Justin Vernon Been Up to Since the Last Bon Iver Album? A Lot
Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon manages to accomplish more in between his band’s albums than many artists do throughout their entire careers. It’s easy to forget that spearheading Bon Iver is technically...
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How Bonnaroo Decides the Last Band Listed on the Poster
The following story is featured in the latest issue of our print quarterly, The Pitchfork Review. Subscribe to the magazine here.One might assume that Ashley Capps has run out of memory for more...
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Netflix’s “The Get Down” Is the Rare (And Great) Music Drama That’s Actually...
There is a ridiculous scene in the pilot of HBO’s “Vinyl” where Richie Finestra accidentally discovers hip-hop. A traffic jam has forced the burnt-out record executive, played by Bobby Cannavale, to...
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Toro Y Moi On Channeling Pink Floyd and Trying To Be Timeless
Few musicians can say they've helped create entire genres only to leave them behind. Toro Y Moi's Chaz Bundick is one of them, having emerged with chillwave as this decade started before making detours...
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Inside the Spellbinding Sound of “Stranger Things”
From the moment the glowing title card of Netflix’s “Stranger Things” drifts across the screen, the undulating synth arpeggios of the opening theme make it clear that the show’s music will play a key...
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Geoff Rickly On Surviving Martin Shkreli
I meet Geoff Rickly for breakfast because neither of us are young men anymore. He resembles a boyish John Cale, a veneer of overnight stubble on his cheeks and chin a hint to his actual age (37). Our...
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If Chefs Are the New Rock Stars, Then Danny Bowien Is Eddie Van Halen
As a teenager in Oklahoma, all Danny Bowien wanted to do was be in a rock band. The James Beard Award-winning chef drove to the local Guitar Center in Oklahoma City to oogle guitars. Eventually an...
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9 Olympic Medalists Share Their Workout Music
In early 2008, Michael Phelps bought a laptop. The Apple Store in Ann Arbor, Michigan, threw in a choice of free bonus: iPod or printer. “I never print anything,” the American swimmer who is now the...
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How Allison and Katie Crutchfield‘s P.S. Eliot Came To Be
On September 2, the complete works of P.S. Eliot—an early band from Katie and Allison Crutchfield, best known for Waxahatchee and Swearin’ respectively—will be released as an anthology via Don...
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