A Night at the Loft, the Dance Party That Spawned All Other Dance Parties
On a Sunday evening in the middle of the three-day weekend, about 300 New Yorkers began their pilgrimage through freezing temperatures and black-iced sidewalks to converge on the East Village. They...
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Ten Discarded Lily Allen Album Titles
Lily Allen has announced that her new record will be called Sheezus. Which means that these other possible titles got left on the cutting room floor.good kid, m.A.A.d sheedySheillmaticMy Beautiful Dark...
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Mixdown: Lil Herb, Nguzunguzu, Casino
Welcome to Mixdown, an ongoing series where Pitchfork staffers and contributors talk about mixtapes and mixes that may not be covered in our reviews section but are worth discussing. Today, we're...
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Shake Appeal: Trin Tran, Natural Child, Sultan Bathery
Shake Appeal is a column that highlights new garage and garage-adjacent releases. This week, Evan Minsker discusses the latest from one-man synthpunk band Trin Tran, Nashville's Southern rock outfit...
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Good Souls and Lost Souls: A Look Back at the Search for the Old New-Radiohead
South. Elbow. Doves. Muse. Lowgold. Ours. Clinic. Muse.On first glance, this list of words could be a vocabulary exercise for elementary schoolers, but hopefully you've recognized that they're all band...
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Enjoy the Silence: A New iPhone App Captures the Spirit of John Cage's 4'33"
For the past several days, I’ve been listening to covers of nothing. And everything.Thanks to 4’33”, a new iPhone-and-iPod-app inspired by John Cage’s infamously indeterminate piece of the same name,...
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Listen to the Pitchfork Podcast, Episode 16: Real Estate's Suburban Dream
Our weekly podcast is now on SoundCloud! This week's episode finds Ryan Dombal talking to Larry Fitzmaurice about Real Estate, purveyors of suburban New Jersey dreams, in the lead-up to their new album...
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Stones Throw Records Finally Gets Its Due in a New Documentary
Stones Throw Records founder Chris Manak (better known as Peanut Butter Wolf) grew up a military brat with a deep love for music. Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton, Jeff Broadway's recent documentary about the...
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Mixdown: Iamsu!, Migos, Lil Silk
Welcome to Mixdown, an ongoing series where Pitchfork staffers and contributors talk about mixtapes and mixes that may not be covered in our reviews section but are worth discussing. Today, we're...
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Billy Corgan and the Infinite Synth Jam: A Report from Madame ZuZu's
It's 11:30 on a Friday morning and Billy Corgan is in his teahouse, trying to get a raffle going. The Smashing Pumpkins frontman works the floor (and, later, the counter) at Madame ZuZu's, his suburban...
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Shake Appeal: Suicide Squeeze Comp, Foul Swoops, Fa Bonx, Flesh Panthers,...
Shake Appeal is a column that highlights new garage and garage-adjacent releases. This week, Evan Minsker discusses the stacked new singles compilation from Suicide Squeeze, plus new stuff from...
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Inside the Jesus Lizard's New BOOK
photo by Pat Graham“When I think of the Jesus Lizard, I think of the greatest band I’ve ever seen,” Steve Albini writes in BOOK, a vividly decorated coffee-table oral history by and about the highly...
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Down Is Up 17: London's Good Throb and Playlounge
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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Hell Awaits: Extreme and Underground Metal from Darkestrah, Caïna, Bog of the...
Hell Awaits is a new column that shines a light on extreme and underground metal. In this first installment, Kim Kelly gathers up six impressive new and not-so-new releases for your listening...
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Shake Appeal: Human Eye, Warm Soda, Golden Pelicans, King Gizzard and the...
Shake Appeal is a column that highlights new garage and garage-adjacent releases. This time, Evan Minsker shares a new video from Human Eye, plus releases from Oakland's Warm Soda, Orlando's Golden...
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SXSW 2014 Preview: Our Writers Share Their Picks
Fans of live music and Doritos, we don't need to tell you: SXSW 2014 is upon us. As we've announced, Pitchfork will be hosting a showcase and a handful of parties, but below we pick out the best—and...
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Weirder Than Austin: A Weekend in Marfa, Texas
Photos by Andy BetaIn the past decade, the small Texas town of Marfa has become a curious nexus for art, music and fashion, with concerts from the likes of Yo La Tengo, Sonic Youth, Feist and Jeff...
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SXSW Tuesday: How Many Hours Does It Take to Become Jaded?
photos by Colin Kerrigan“This is our first-ever day in Austin,” Ellen Kempner of the New York-based band Palehound announced last night to a respectably sized crowd at a tiny, self-proclaimed...
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Swingin (Goth) Party: Lorde Brings Her Dark Arts to NYC
Last night, Corban Goble and Ryan Dombal joined the off-white-teethed teens, some parents, a few little kids, and various other monochrome-clad youths to see Lorde's sold-out show at Manhattan's...
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Pressing Pause: Lindsay Zoladz on Last Night's SXSW Tragedy and its Aftermath
photo by Colin KerriganEven at a music festival, there are moments when music takes a back seat. Before 1 a.m. last night, my primary concern had been inching towards the front of the crowd at the NPR...
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