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Shake Appeal: Chit Chat, Doug Tuttle, the Traps, and Holy Wave
Shake Appeal is a column that highlights new garage and garage-adjacent releases. This time, Evan Minsker looks at new stuff from Michigan rippers Chit Chat, former MMOSS frontman Doug Tuttle, some...
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Daft Punk, Discovery, and How the Grammys Affect the Charts
It’s been an interesting couple of days since the Grammy Awards. Critics and cultural observers have tried to make sense of the crossover-heavy spectacle: assessing why white artists supported by black...
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What the Hell Is Synesthesia and Why Does Every Musician Seem to Have It?
For Duke Ellington, a D note looked like dark blue burlap while a G was light blue satin. When Pharrell Williams listened to Earth, Wind & Fire as a kid, he saw burgundy or baby blue. For Kanye...
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Mixdown: Bout That Action Edition
Welcome to Mixdown, an ongoing series where Pitchfork contributors talk about mixtapes and mixes that may not be covered in our reviews section but are worth discussing. Today, we're talking about new...
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Six Essential Mark Kozelek Releases
Photo by Gabriel ShepardIt’s almost impossible to keep track of Mark Kozelek’s many releases. For twenty years, he’s been putting out numerous LPs, EPs, covers comps, one-off collaborations, holiday...
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Confessions of an Earbud Apologist
I have a confession: Until about a month ago, I’d never owned a set of headphones sold separately from a certain ubiquitous line of Apple media players. Admitting to a life spent digesting sound spat...
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Shake Appeal: VAGUESS, Ketamines, Bad Indians, Atlantic Thrills, Big Air
Shake Appeal is a column that highlights new garage and garage-adjacent releases. This week, Evan Minsker discusses the latest releases from Dana Point's VAGUESS, Toronto's Ketamines, Michigan's Bad...
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Down Is Up 15: Rokk í Reykjavík, Belgrado, Potty Mouth
Down Is Up discusses music that falls slightly under the radar of our usual coverage: demos and self-releases, as well as output from small or overlooked labels and communities. This week, Jenn Pelly...
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Did Pussy Riot's Message at the Amnesty Concert Get Lost in Translation?
Photos via Amnesty InternationalAt the press conference that preceded Amnesty International's Bring Human Rights Home Concert at Brooklyn's Barclays Center last night, a reporter asked a question that...
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Listen to the Pitchfork Podcast on SoundCloud Now
Need a good way to pass your listening hours this weekend? You're in luck! The entire set of Pitchfork Podcasts is now available on our SoundCloud. Previously available only through the Pitchfork...
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Mixdown: Two Guys, a Girl and a Mixtape Column Edition
Welcome to Mixdown, an ongoing series where Pitchfork contributors talk about mixtapes and mixes that may not be covered in our reviews section but are worth discussing. Today, we're talking about new...
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Shake Appeal: The People's Temple, PyPy, Ruined Fortune, Ausmuteants, Wet Drag
Shake Appeal is a column that highlights new garage and garage-adjacent releases. This week, Evan Minsker discusses the latest releases from Michigan garage stompers the People's Temple, Montreal's...
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Sun Kil Moon's Benji: A Glossary
Though the musical components of Sun Kil Moon’s Benji rarely amount to more than Mark Kozelek’s voice and acoustic guitar, its lyrical universe is incomparably vast, spanning countries and decades,...
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Okay, Computer: Exploring Radiohead's New App
Being someone who plays videogames means sitting through a lot of fizzled hype. You'll hear how the newest Call of Duty provides the most realistic combat experience ever, and play it only to realize...
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A Very Long Hiatus: What Websites Devoted to Cibo Matto, My Bloody Valentine,...
When Cibo Mattoannounced this past December that they'd be releasing their first album in 15 years, Hotel Valentine, their web presence had to stage a bit of a comeback too. The duo of Tokyo-born, New...
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Proof That Pavement Didn't Suck Live
Welcome to the first installment of Invisible Hits, a new column in which Tyler Wilcox scours the internet for the best (and strangest) bootlegs. Tyler also blogs at Doom & Gloom From the Tomb....
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Down Is Up 16: Don Giovanni Records Showcase
Down Is Up discusses music that falls slightly under the radar of our usual coverage: demos and self-releases, as well as output from small or overlooked labels and communities. This week, Jenn Pelly...
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Shake Appeal: Generation Loss, White Mystery, Heaters, AJ Davila, Trampoline...
Shake Appeal is a column that highlights new garage and garage-adjacent releases. This week, Evan Minsker discusses the latest from San Francisco's Generation Loss, Chicago's White Mystery, Davila 666...
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Why This Year's Best Original Song Oscar Could Make Chart History
When it comes to winter and popular music, you might as well call it Event Season—the Billboard charts are shaken and stirred almost weekly by a series of major televised happenings. Just as we’re...
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The Official "Drunk in Love" Remix Power Rankings
How’s your 2014 going? Do you feel like you’ve accomplished anything in the first 50 days of the year? Is time passing you by? Does it make you feel worse that every musician on Earth has covered...
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