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10 Pitchfork Staffers On The Music That Helps Them Get Shit Done
Work is so never-ending, Rihanna had to repeat it five times in a row just to make her point. Chances are, you’re really feeling this right now. Maybe you’ve recently gone back to school, or you’re...
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What Does It Mean to Experience an Album for the First Time as a Film?
Last Thursday, just a few hours before the release of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ new album Skeleton Tree, a sold-out crowd shuffled into Manhattan’s Metrograph cinema to experience it for the first...
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A Brief Guide to South African House Music From One of Its Rising Stars,...
Black Coffee almost cost me a plane ticket. Last September, as I was full-on sprinting through the Johannesburg airport to narrowly make my flight back to New York, I passed a record store blaring the...
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Searching the Subway for Mike Yung, the Viral Singer that Time Forgot
As I wander into the depths of downtown New York’s bustling Broadway-Lafayette subway, the thought strikes me that I might have to traverse all of the station’s platforms before I find who I’m looking...
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Epitaph’s Brett Gurewitz On Building—and Shifting—a Punk Empire
The offices of Epitaph Records are in a big off-white building in Silver Lake that was once a depot for the streetcars of the Los Angeles Railway. When Epitaph’s founder and owner Brett Gurewitz got...
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How To Organize Your Own Music Festival
The following story is featured in the latest issue of our print quarterly, The Pitchfork Review. Subscribe to the magazine here.When I was 17,I booked a music festival on my father’s farm.The Indie...
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Mac Miller On His Days as a Dickhead Weed Dealer
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 hip-hop wild child Mac...
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Baths Ups the Lynchian Vibes of Must-See Web-Series ‘David’ Through Score
After you’ve seen a comic dupe dozens of customers into trying feces-flavored frozen yogurt, hatch an elaborate plan to take down Best Buy, and tightrope in the skin of another man—all in the name of...
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The London Nightlife Crisis According to Scuba, the Last DJ to Play Fabric
For DJs, timing is everything. Their craft involves lining up beats with mechanical precision. Their careers depend upon tracking the shifting winds of dance music’s fickle tastes.For Scuba—aka Paul...
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The People vs. Mike Love
Closing arguments of the prosecutionLadies and gentlemen of the jury: We are a nation of laws, of virtuous conduct that must be upheld for the strength and prosperity of all. Chief among these are...
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Who the Hell Is Spaceman? A Cosmic Convo with Frank Ocean’s Mystery Guitarist
Billy “Spaceman” Patterson was around 13 years old when he first heard Sun Ra. The New Brunswick, N.J. native had seen the astral jazz adventurer’s name on the door of Rutgers University’s student...
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The Art of Cassettes: 5 Tape Labels That Get Graphics Right
For nearly a decade now, the cassette revival has been a subject of debate. Much of this chatter surrounds the trend’s unlikelihood and the reasons behind it, while others fret over supposed...
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TV’s Best Music Supervision in 10 Shows
A few years after the turn of the millennium, as reality TV dominated the major networks, a handful of ambitious HBO dramas launched what would eventually be known as a new golden age of scripted...
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Remembering Snap Rap Pioneer Shawty Lo Through His Underrated Songs
Yesterday, Carlos Walker—known best as the Atlanta rapper Shawty Lo—was killed in a car crash at the young age of 40. An adrenalized personality, Lo’s best songs were animated—awash with energy and...
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BADBADNOTGOOD Are Sick of Your Clickbait Bullshit
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 Alex Sowinski, drummer...
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The History of the Posse Cut in 5 Songs
Last week, Danny Brown dropped a gem he’d been chiseling away at for some time: “Really Doe,” a new song from his new LP Atrocity Exhibition. The song features guest appearances from Ab-Soul, Kendrick...
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The Cure’s Lol Tolhurst On Blackouts, Breakups, and Escaping the ’80s Alive
Given the Cure’s tumultuous, sometimes acrimonious history, you might expect Lol Tolhurst’s forthcoming memoir, Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys, to be a lurid tell-all. And in some ways, it is....
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Whose America Gets to Define Americana Anyway?
Jim Lauderdale, the silver-haired and spangle-suited singer-songwriter who hosts the Americana Music Association’s annual awards show, likes to punctuate his chatter with a certain exclamation: “Now...
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How to Dress Well on the Eternal Truth of Celine Dion
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 experimental pop auteur...
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Does Bluetooth Really Sound Worse?
Harald Bluetooth was a 10th-century king of Denmark. In 1997, an Intel engineer who’d been reading about Scandinavian history proposed borrowing Harald’s nickname for a short-range wireless standard...
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