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How Music on TV Actually Works, According to ‘The Leftovers’ and ‘FNL’ Music...
Last night, the third and final season of HBO’s “The Leftovers” opened with Doomsday pilgrims eagerly awaiting the Rapture, circa 1844. As the days of reckoning passed by without a peep, a cover of “I...
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An Introduccion to DJ Wey’s Various Aliases
For electronic producers and DJs, a name can offer a new identity or a veil to hide behind. Daft Punk, Zomby, and DJ Stingray keep their faces physically obscured, while Aphex Twin and Burial maintain...
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Prince Was a Queen-Maker
Prince made too much music for just one person. He knew this, banking thousands of hours of unreleased material in the vaults of his Paisley Park studios. A year after his unexpected death on April 21,...
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Inside Rap’s Early Days: Hidden Gems from Bill Adler’s Def Jam Archives
Bill Adler has spent decades as one of hip-hop’s chief endorsers and archivists, running publicity for Def Jam and Rush Artist Management from 1984 to 1990 and documenting rap ever since via writing...
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The Little-Known Nonprofit Helping Your Favorite Bands Give Back
“I want to help you but I don’t know how,” Hurray for the Riff Raff’s Alynda Segarra sang on her Trayvon Martin tribute “Everybody Knows” back in 2014. Fortuitously, the song led her to Revolutions Per...
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How Jason Molina Charmed Will Oldham and First Got Signed
In her forthcoming book Riding with the Ghost, Erin Osmon traces the curious path taken by Jason Molina, from his childhood outside Cleveland through his harrowing final days in and out of rehab for...
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The World Wasn’t Ready for Cosey Fanni Tutti, Throbbing Gristle’s Other...
“Early November 1969: Cosmosis he named me after seeing me just once,” reads an excerpt from Cosey Fanni Tutti’s diary, published in her forthcoming autobiography Art Sex Music. The nickname given to...
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Adam Green on the Night Father John Misty Came to Macaulay Culkin’s Apartment
There is a lot going on in Father John Misty’s new “Total Entertainment Forever” video. George Washington eats some Viagra and throws on a VR headset in an effort to “hack the Constitution.” Then,...
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5 Music Videos Directed by Jonathan Demme
Jonathan Demme, who died today at age 73, was probably most famous as the director of films like Silence of the Lambs and Philadelphia. Music fans may remember him best as the director of Talking...
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5 Routes Into the Curious Mind of Tony Conrad
“You hear one second of Tony’s music and you know it’s him,” Jim O’Rourke says in a new documentary about Tony Conrad, the experimental composer, multi-media pioneer, and art-world gadfly, who died...
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The 10 Best DJ Mixes of April 2017
Different spaces breed different vibes. One of the wonderful things about electronic music is how adaptable it is, and this month’s selection of mixes samples all kinds of contexts, from a...
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How Metal Can Make the World a Better Place (for Metalheads)
Welcome to Pitchfork’s 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 community. Below...
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Amber Coffman on Why Her Solo Debut Is More Than a Breakup Album
In the four years since Amber Coffman moved to Los Angeles, she has been diligently sampling all of the trademark idylls of Golden State living. “I went horseback riding and attempted surfing twice,...
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Angaleena Presley Is Nashville’s Biggest Smart-Ass
The accusatory caricatures of backwoods, blue-collar people that have circulated with a vengeance since Donald Trump’s election meet their match in Angaleena Presley. On the day of the Women’s March,...
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Searching for Answers in Fyre Festival’s Viral Disaster
In December, beachside Instagrams of famous swimsuit models began pushing a new event in the Bahamas called Fyre Festival, purporting to be “the cultural experience of the decade.” Kendall Jenner made...
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Why Radiohead Finally Releasing “Lift” Matters
On March 14, 1996, Radiohead performed at the Troubadour, the storied West Hollywood club with capacity for just 400 people. Beyond a setlist, little information about the gig—supposedly a secret...
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What We’re Missing in the Analog vs. Digital Debate
The words “digital” and “analog” are used so often, we’ve stopped asking what they mean. From the shift to streaming media to the retro resurgence of the vinyl LP, “digital” typically stands in for...
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How Star Wars Influenced Funk and Disco, in 7 Songs
In 1973, four years before the release of Stars Wars, Darth Vader met a droid. Or, to be precise, James Earl Jones met Rufus Thomas, who appeared on Jones’ short-lived variety show “Black Omnibus” to...
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‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Is So Much Smarter Than Its Soundtrack
Note: This article contains light spoilers.If nothing scares you more than the prospect of getting trapped in a patriarchal dystopia, then you’ll be hard pressed to find an hour of television more...
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The War on Drugs on Their Epic New Single and Making an “L.A. Record”
Adam Granduciel couldn’t stop staring at speakers. Working on the follow-up to 2014’s big breakthrough Lost in the Dream for the last year and a half, the War on Drugs’ perfectionist leader had gotten...
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