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Coachella Owner’s Ties to Anti-LGBTQ Causes More Recent Than Previously Reported
Philip Anschutz is the billionaire mogul behind Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG), the massive entertainment conglomerate that owns promotion companies, arenas, stadiums, theaters, festivals, and...
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The History of Viral Rap Hits in 9 Songs
Earlier this week, Migos and Lil Uzi Vert’s playfully decadent “Bad and Boujee” dethronedRae Sremmurd and Gucci Mane’s “Black Beatles” for the top spot on the Hot 100. Migos’ first No. 1 is notable not...
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16 Pitchfork Staffers Share Their Formative Teenage Albums
There’s a meme circulating on Facebook this week (at least among music writing/industry folks) that’s fun and a bit revealing for music nerds. Participation is simple: List 10 albums that made a...
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Revisiting Aaliyah’s Strangest Song, An Homage to Soap Villain Erica Kane
Thirty-eight years ago today (January 16, 1979), Aaliyah was born in Brooklyn. Nine years earlier to the day, the biggest diva the soap opera world has ever known made her debut, when Susan Lucci...
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Remixers, Do You Swear You Weren’t Inspired?
When Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” first came out in early 2013, few likely predicted the hit’s future inescapability. But absolutely no one could have imagined that the song’s legal battle would have...
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R&G: A Brief History of Grime’s Softer Side
Like most future-facing genres, grime—the rhyme-focused dance sound out of East London—has had its fair share of mutations throughout its 16 years. There was “grindie” (grime and indie), experimental...
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William Onyeabor Was Truly One of a Kind
“Enigma” and “mystery” are phrases that tend to come up often when discussing William Onyeabor, the Nigerian musician who died Monday at age 70. From 1977 to 1985, Onyeabor self-released nine albums of...
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What’s at Stake if Trump Kills the National Endowment for the Arts
It's sadly fitting that the National Endowment for the Arts, one of the latest targets of President-elect Trump’s insatiable pique, began as an act of hope. While the idea that the arts “have a primary...
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On This Inauguration Day
The communities Pitchfork cover and serve face challenges now like we’ve never seen in our publication’s 21-year history. President Trump’s words and cabinet picks likely signal tough times ahead for...
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St. Vincent On Her Directing Debut, The Birthday Party
Annie Clark is aware of the perils of dilettantism. Her cracked art rock is anything but—even at its most uncaged, the music she makes as St. Vincent is in-control, adroit, world-class. When we speak...
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Op-Ed: Every Single Day Is a Women’s March
The following is an op-ed from Katie Alice Greer of the overtly political D.C. rock band Priests, whose first full-length, Nothing Feels Natural, is out this week. Every single day is another...
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Spending Inauguration Day in the South with Run the Jewels
Donald Trump has been president for precisely nine hours, and Killer Mike and El-P don’t want to talk politics.Crammed against the leather cushions of the dim den at the rear of their tour bus, parked...
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Jaki Liebezeit’s Best Drumming Outside of Can
This past weekend, Jaki Liebezeitdied at the age of 78. As one of the founding members of Can, Liebezeit powered the German experimental rockers with an astonishing blend of intensity, grace, and...
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20th Century Women Gets Early Punk Right
There are things that happen in 20th Century Women, the brilliant new film from writer and director Mike Mills, that do not happen in other movies. For one, it stars Greta Gerwig as a feminist punk....
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We Shall Overcomb: Music as Protest at the Women’s March
Musicians played a role at the center of the Women’s March on Washington this past weekend, with main stage speeches by Alicia Keys and a many-fucks-given Madonna, performances including Janelle Monáe...
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Gorillaz Saw the Future of Pop Narratives
It’s always been hard to take Gorillaz totally seriously. After all, the side project of Blur’s Damon Albarn and Tank Girl co-creator Jamie Hewlett is comprised of cartoon characters: Albarn’s...
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5 Musician-Centered College Classes We’d Happily Audit
Spring semester is already well underway at most universities, but it’s never too late to think about transferring, is it? Popular music has been finding its way onto the occasional course catalog for...
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Downtown Boys’ Victoria Ruiz Is Probably Watching Beyoncé Live Videos Right Now
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 Victoria Ruiz,...
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The 9 Best DJ Mixes of January 2017
This month’s roundup of DJ mixes covers a range of styles and moods. New Yorkers Volvox and Aurora Halal respectively channel dark, foreboding forms of techno. Kornél Kovács moves in pursuit of the...
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Here’s What Musicians Hurt by the Muslim Ban Have to Say to Trump
When Sevdaliza heard about President Donald Trump’s new travel ban, she set aside the music she was mixing in the studio. The Iranian-born, Netherlands-based artist typically sings in English; one...
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