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Willie Nelson remains one of the busiest 84 year olds on the planet. We look at his evolution through a handful of live performances and bootlegs.
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In the four years since *Reflektor*, Arcade Fire have covered Boyz II Men and Huey Lewis, hung out with Skrillex in the studio, and more—what does it all mean?!
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The Grammy-winning engineer explains how creative use of sound helped shape new albums from Perfume Genius, the War on Drugs, Grizzly Bear, and more.
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A new generation of mainstream country singers is borrowing more from Blink and Billie Joe than Blake and Brad, in the process questioning Nashville’s core confines.
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Catching up with Sean Miyashiro, whose management and video production company has seen recent success with hard-hitting rappers out to obliterate Asian stereotypes.
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Now nearly a third of the way through the reboot, let’s look at how the iconic “Twin Peaks” soundscape has changed.
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There’s something striking about an album that can condense its worldview into 20 minutes or less.
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From funeral frump to Jim Jones chic, with a quick stop for bobbleheads
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Inspired by Fleet Foxes' first album in six years, we trace prog folk in 16 songs, from Joni to Joanna and few Vans in between
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Lana Del Rey’s 25 (!) iconography-filled videos have endowed her alter ego with more depth than once seemed possible.
View Article9 Pitchfork Staffers on the Best Soundtracks in Need of Reissues
We asked our readers which movie soundtracks should be reissued, and now we answer the question ourselves.
View ArticleThe Flawed Ways We Remember Tupac
Like so many other posthumous portrayals of Pac, the new biopic All Eyez On Me misses the contradictions that made him such an engaging figure.
View ArticleMemorializing Mobb Deep’s Prodigy in 6 Songs
Highlights from the career of an uncompromising street rap legend
View ArticleWhere Weird Music Meets Mindfulness: At Church, Apparently
It is not uncommon for a great concert to be likened to a religious experience. Ambient Church founder Brian Sweeny takes that idea more literally.
View ArticleA Brief History of Musical Wunderkinds
Lorde’s the latest in a long line of musicians discovered young and saddled with big expectations. Here’s how others have navigated fame while finding themselves.
View ArticleOne Direction Fanfiction Is Having a Moment in YA Books
1D’s formation during Tumblr’s peak elevated them to a phenomenon linked with the way girls live online. Now big publishers have taken notice.
View ArticleBecoming Rap's First Billionaire: JAY-Z's Corporate Deals
We get it—you’re a business, man.
View ArticleNetflix’s GLOW Escapes ’80s Soundtrack Cliché with Music Supervision
The new series about women wrestlers, starring Alison Brie and Marc Maron, captures the nostalgia-dripped decade well.
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