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“Chappelle’s Show” Is Still Great Music Television
It’s been a decade now since Comedy Central signed off on the final editions of “Chappelle's Show” behind the back of its host and creator. The three “lost episodes” glued together the completed skits...
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September’s Best DJ Mixes, From Aphex Twin to Trans Resistance
It’s no secret that in dance music (and beyond), retro rules the roost. The old school looms large over this month’s selection of must-hear mixes, too, whether it’s Planet Mu label boss Mike Paradinas...
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Talking Heads’ Road to Remain in Light
“We’re not the same as we used to be,” David Byrne tells the crowd at Ontario, Canada’s Heatwave Festival in the summer of 1980. He sounds nervous—but then again, he pretty much always sounds nervous....
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Waiting on Justice for the Radiohead Stage Collapse That Killed Scott Johnson
Scott Johnson moved to Hickleton, a centuries-old village of about 100 houses in northern England, with his parents when he was still in school so they’d be closer to Electro Music, a shop in nearby...
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Nao Might Really Be Neo From The Matrix
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 British R&B...
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How Iggy and the Stooges Invented Punk
We could argue forever over which band wrote the first punk song, but let’s not mince words about one thing: It was the Stooges who pioneered the punk performance. Iggy Pop stomped and writhed onstage...
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Heard But Not Seen: How Rod Temperton Changed Pop
For a foundational architect of late ’70s and early ’80s dance music and a crafter of more than a dozen Hot 100 Top 20 hits, Rod Temperton is striking in his anonymity. Largely, that’s by design:...
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The World Should Remember Caroline Crawley’s Voice
Yesterday, on Shelleyan Orphan’s Facebook page, it was announced that the band’s co-founder and vocalist Caroline Crawley had passed away. Details are scant, other than, according to her longtime...
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The Radio Dept. on Why Sweden Is Just as Screwed Politically as America
The Radio Dept.’s Johan Duncanson and Martin Larsson know that using music as a form of protest isn’t anything new. From Woody Guthrie to Rage Against the Machine to Kendrick Lamar, popular music has...
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Wings of Love: Lykke Li and Miike Snow’s Andrew Wyatt Talk New Supergroup LIV
Seven years ago, Lykke Li and Andrew Wyatt stood close, traded glances, and told each other: “I don’t care what nobody says, we’re gonna have a baby.” Li was on the road with Wyatt’s group Miike Snow,...
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Joyce Manor’s Barry Johnson Has Been Asked Not to Dance
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 Barry Johnson of...
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5 Great Pitchfork Music Festival Paris Sets You Can Watch Right Now
In just a few weeks, Pitchfork Music Festival Paris returns to Grande Halle de La Villette with M.I.A., DJ Shadow, Moderat, Nick Murphy (fka Chet Faker), Bat for Lashes, Todd Terje& the Olsens,...
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9 Actually Good Songs About Why Donald Trump Sucks
Donald Trump’s campaign technically started with music. He has long been a subject in music. His surrogates explain away his videotaped boasting about sexual assault by comparing it to music. And...
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Black Lives Matter’s DeRay Mckesson on the Power of Protest Music
The following story is featured in the next issue of our print quarterly, The Pitchfork Review. Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson isn’t a musician, but he knows how powerful the right song can...
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Op-Ed: The World Does Not Need Bob Dylan, Nobel Prize Winner in Literature
What is a prize like the Nobel in Literature for? In creating the honor, first awarded 115 years ago, Alfred Nobel stated it should be awarded to “the person who shall have produced in the field of...
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Why Ricardo Villalobos Is Still the Most Audacious Remixer Out There
The new remix project from Norwegian disco cosmonaut Prins Thomas is nothing if not gargantuan: At nearly two-and-a-half hours, it contains 12 remixes of songs from his 2016 album Príncipe del Norte,...
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Phones, Drones, and Country Music: On Sturgill Simpson’s Necessary ‘Call to...
This week, we'll be running a series of essays from the next issue of our print quarterly, The Pitchfork Review, in which writers discuss political music that opened their eyes.Where I grew up in...
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The Sounds of Black Lives Matter
Solange scoring America’s No. 1 album last week was a victory on several levels.A Seat at the Table finds the younger Knowles striving forward with cinematic song structures and lush production, but...
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The Truth Is in the Mess: On Public Enemy’s Fear of a Black Planet
This week, we'll be running a series of essays from the next issue of our print quarterly, The Pitchfork Review, in which writers discuss political music that opened their eyes. Read them all here.Fear...
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The Pitchfork Guide to Paris 2016
Pitchfork Paris 2016 will soon be upon us, featuring performances from the likes of M.I.A., Moderat, Nick Murphy, DJ Shadow, Bat for Lashes, Todd Terje and the Olsens, Daphni, Explosions in the Sky,...
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