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A Rock Hall Voter Breaks Down the Most Epic Nomination Class in Decades
It's widely acknowledged that there are inherent problems with the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame—not the museum or research institution, which does plenty of fine work, but the process of how artists...
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What We Can Learn from the Political Music of Other Depressing Elections
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...
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Michael Nesmith: The Closest The Monkees Ever Got to Cool
The promotional image for the Monkees’ 50th anniversary tour is exactly what casual observers of the group’s nostalgia-circuit phase would expect: vibrant pastel colors and smiling cartoon faces frame...
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Le Tigre on How a Tampon Jingle Became Their Hillary Anthem “I'm With Her”
The same day Donald Trump interrupted his opponent to call her “such a nasty woman,” Le Tigre returned to throw their support behind Hillary Clinton with a song called “I'm With Her.” The dance-punk...
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Dolly Parton Is for Everyone
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.When...
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From Bowie to Gaga: How Glam Rock Lives On
On October 11, 1974, Iggy Pop, the New York Dolls, and the local celebrities and club kids who frequented Rodney Bingenheimer’s English Disco buried glam rock at a public ceremony in Los Angeles....
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Pitchfork Music Festival Paris 2016: A Playlist
Pitchfork Music Festival Paris is quickly approaching. From October 27 to 29, M.I.A., Bat For Lashes, Nick Murphy (fka Chet Faker), Parquet Courts, Moderat, Porches, and many more will take the stage...
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No More Classic Men: On Moonlight’s Bizarre Jidenna Moment
Most of Barry Jenkins’ already-beloved new film Moonlight is scored with orchestral swells worthy of Vivaldi fan-fic. The movie itself, which is about the young black queer experience in “War on...
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The Drake vs. Pusha T Beef: Are We Really Doing This?
Drake beef may be thin and lean, but throw some on the grill and watch the hot takes sizzle. Lesser rappers hurl insults at him with yawn-inducing regularity, likely in the hopes that he’ll notice and...
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Curtis Mayfield Finally Gets a Definitive Biography. What Took So Long?
One of the most remarkable things about the new, definitive Curtis Mayfield biography, Traveling Soul, is that it took this long for someone to write one. In terms of influence and popularity,...
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A Brief History of Conservatives Rejected by Musicians They Love
It can be easy to forget sometimes, but (most) politicians are not reptilian humanoids every second of every day. Like the rest of us, they (should) have genuine interests outside of work. Sometimes,...
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The Forgotten Precursor to iTunes
Nearly 30 years ago, I walked into Tower Records in the East Village and heard a version of the future. It was in the form of a mixtape. Specifically, a professionally made mixtape. Tired of dubbing...
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Oasis Doc Supersonic Knows What You Want Is Gallagher Brothers Chaos
The history books have made imperial-phase Oasis into avatars for political identities they rarely claimed to represent. Noel Gallagher might beg to differ with author Alex Niven’s statement, in his...
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Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokno Doesn’t Want You to Dread the Word “Vagina”
Clit in his mouth all day! Clit in his mouth all day! Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokno and I are sitting in the Manhattan office of her music publisher, singing Run the Jewels’ sly, Gangsta Boo-featuring...
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7 Pitchfork Staffers on the Albums that Creep Them the Hell Out
Halloween is a holiday, and as such, someone decided it would be a good (if not profitable) idea to create specific music to soundtrack it. “Monster Mash” is inarguably the best designated Halloween...
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8 Elegant Leonard Cohen Songs That Are Probably About Death
Few songwriters take more care with a turn of phrase than Leonard Cohen. The Canadian singer and poet sometimes takes years—and in a few cases, decades—to complete songs, though his pace has quickened...
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Apple Losing USB Is a Loss For Music
Last night I got together with a few friends to DJ at a new bar not far from my neighborhood in Barcelona. At three in the morning, when we finished, I took a leisurely stroll home in the unusually...
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Devendra Banhart Gets a Lot of Dick Pics on Instagram
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 the quizzical...
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The 7 Best DJ Mixes of October 2016
This month’s round-up of must-hear DJ mixes traverses Norwegian disco, New York noise, and a globe-trotting approach to psychedelia that touches on Turin and Tennessee. The sets I've selected tend to...
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We Are X Tells the Greatest Rock‘n’Roll Story America Has Never Heard
“What was the cause of the breakup?” a radio host asks X Japan songwriter and drummer Yoshiki, early in Stephen Kijak’s new documentary We Are X. “Were you not getting along, or were there changes in...
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