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Op-Ed: Is It OK for Musicians to Punch Their Harassers?
On February 15, New York City rapper Princess Nokia performed in the UK at Cambridge University’s Charity Fashion Show, where her efforts to help raise money for the disabled took a disturbing turn....
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9 Songs Showcasing Leon Ware’s Incomparable Soul Touch
“Incantations delivered in weightless, improvisatory vocals above undulating grooves; they're entreaties of yearning and devotion… a preacher of sensuality in his pulpit.” So esteemed a New York Times...
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The 10 Best DJ Mixes of February 2017
Josey Rebelle's dark, defiant Discwoman set and Max D's positive-vibes “Yes Mix” bookend this month's column, both asking the same question and coming up with different answers: In a world gone mad,...
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Inside Jack White’s New Third Man Pressing Plant
On Friday night, Third Man Records’ new Detroit location threw a swanky private party to celebrate the opening of their long-promised pressing plant. Invitations specified that attendees wear...
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The Month in Metal: Adapt or Die—But Don’t Defy Tradition Too Much
Welcome to Pitchfork’s new monthly metal column, where we’ll guide you through the genre’s new music and various happenings with an eye towards a specific theme. This month’s theme is tradition. Below...
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5 Excellent Elliott Smith Bootlegs You Can Download Legally
Invisible Hits is a column in which Tyler Wilcox scours the internet for the best (and strangest) bootlegs, rarities, outtakes, and live clips.LikeNick Drake, the singer-songwriter he’s most often...
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Know How the Pop Music Sausage Gets Made? Keep It to Yourself
Last February, leading pop maestro Max Martin was awarded the prestigious Polar Music Prize in his native Sweden. The honor prompted the songwriter and producer to grant a couple of...
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Where to Start With the Prolific Alex G
Today, shaggy-haired Philly guitarist Alex G announced his second album for Domino, Rocket, and it’s a doozy. His first for the label, 2015’s Beach Music, was an uneven affair, and not necessarily an...
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9 Artists Carrying the Torch for Cosmic Jazz
What would Sun Ra think? How might he react, that is, if he were told that the cosmic jazz machine he built—the Sun Ra Arkestra—was still announcing new tour dates in the distant year of 2017? Raised...
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Read Chance the Rapper’s Foreword to Kevin Coval’s A People’s History of Chicago
Kevin Coval came to hip-hop in a very Chicago way: through the city’s vivid house music scene. As a teenager growing up in the suburb of Northbrook, Coval viewed house music’s “notion of radical...
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SXSW CEO Roland Swenson Talks the Festival’s Deportation Clause Controversy
With a week to go before this year’s SXSW, CEO and co-founder Roland Swenson is defending the festival against a backlash over immigration language in its artist contracts. The controversy started on...
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A History of Anti-Fascist Punk Around the World in 9 Songs
In its four decades, punk has meant many different things to many different people. Its relationship to fascism, the specter of which has stopped rattling its chains from history books and re-appeared...
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Robin Pecknold Talks New Fleet Foxes Album and Going Back to School
Six years is an eternity between records, especially in an era where an artist can release two full-lengthalbums in as many weeks and have them both hit No. 1. Plenty of bands return after hiatuses,...
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Portlandia’s Best Hipster Jabs, According to a Portlander
You won’t find many Portland residents who own up to watching “Portlandia,” Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen’s IFC sketch show that since 2011, has warmly derided the city’s coolness factor. That...
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The Buddhist Heart of Arthur Russell’s Archives
Arthur Russell was living in Northern California in the early ’70s when he met the insurance salesman who would become his Buddhist teacher, Yuko Nonomura. Having fled his home amid the Iowa cornfields...
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The Unlikely Making of The Velvet Underground & Nico
Invisible Hits is a column in which Tyler Wilcox scours the internet for the best (and strangest) bootlegs, rarities, outtakes, and live clips.Talent, vision, fearlessness, a touch of genius: they’re...
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Terrence Malick’s So-Called Indie Rock Film ‘Song to Song’ Is a Huge Missed...
Song to Song was supposed to be Terrence Malick’s paean to indie rock. The New Hollywood legend spent years documenting SXSW and other Austin music festivals for the movie, making headlines as early as...
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Op-Ed: Azealia Banks and the Double Standard of Mental Illness
On December 30th, a video circulated online of Azealia Banks, clad in safety goggles and a headscarf, surrounded by feathers and black junk. “Three years’ worth of Brujería,” Banks says panning the...
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24 Hour Party People Director Michael Winterbottom Tucked a Love Story Inside...
Years ago, the Britpop band Ash told director Michael Winterbottom that life on a tour bus was more mundane than you could imagine. That thought stuck with Winterbottom, who’d go on to explore music in...
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Chuck Berry Was the Sound of 20th Century America
Chuck Berry released his first single “Maybellene” in 1955, not long after the century he would help define reached its midpoint. Rock’n’roll was busy being born, set off four years earlier by “Rocket...
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