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Where You Stand at a Show and What It Says About You
photos by Erez AvissarImagine you’ve just stepped into your favorite venue for a night of live music from a band you love. You’ve exchanged your ticket for a stamp on the hand. You’ve scrutinized the...
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Hell Awaits: Extreme and Underground Metal from A Pregnant Light, Ghost Bath,...
Hell Awaits is a column by Kim Kelly and Andy O'Connor that shines a light on extreme and underground metal. This week, Andy recommends new releases from Chinese black metal band Ghost Bath, Damian...
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Death, Dogs, and Delirium: Miley Cyrus Does New Jersey
Lindsay Zoladz: Hello, I am a person who once attended a feminist punk festival called C.L.I.T. Fest, and yet never in my entire life have I been to a show with a higher female-to-male ratio than last...
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Shake Appeal: Denney and the Jets, Les Marinellis, the Weirdos, 1960s...
Shake Appeal is a column that highlights new garage and garage-adjacent releases. This week, Evan Minsker highlights two comps from Los Angeles punks the Weirdos, a 7" box set featuring 1960s...
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Down Is Up 19: Screaming Females' Live at the Hideout
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 time, Jenn Pelly...
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How to Survive a Music Festival
Ah, Music Festivals. Music Festivals rule. Did you even KNOW there were that many glow sticks in the world? I bet you did not. $85 dollars a beer! (Worth it if you share with six of your friends.) Body...
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Hell Awaits: Extreme and Underground Metal from Sabbatic Goat, Act of...
Hell Awaits is a column by Kim Kelly and Andy O'Connor that shines a light on extreme and underground metal. This week, Kim recommends new releases from New Zealand's Sabbatic Goat, Nashville's Act of...
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A Jim Jarmusch Mixtape
Jim Jarmusch is one of the the most important figures in American independent cinema, but in a sense his legacy belongs as much to the world of music as it does to film. From the brawny vigor of Down...
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An Alternative to Alternative: The Importance of a Female-Fronted Nirvana
Last night at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, Nirvana were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25 years after their debut album Bleach was released (on cassette) via Sub Pop Records. In the...
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Who Killed at Coachella?
Photo by Chris TuiteWhether you enjoyed this year’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival under the Palm Desert sunshine or in the darkness of your basement rec room (thanks to YouTube), we can all...
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Shake Appeal: Record Store Day Picks
Shake Appeal is a column that highlights new garage and garage-adjacent releases. In anticipation of Record Store Day (April 19), Evan Minsker suggests what he thinks you should track down this year....
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Gamelan, Electronic Music's Unexpected Indonesian Influence
above: the cover of Trabajo's Gamelan to the Love GodWhen British electronic duo Plaid played New York's Le Poisson Rouge in 2011 to support their album Scintilli, they had an unusual opener: A New...
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Invisible Hits: The Velvet Underground's Elusive "Sweet Sister Ray"
Over the past decade, The Velvet Underground’s live archive has been raided with increasing frequency. First we got the official release of a long-bootlegged 1966 Columbus, Ohio gig as a part of the...
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Hell Awaits: House of Lightning, Sutekh Hexen, Autopsy, and more
Hell Awaits is a column by Kim Kelly and Andy O'Connor that shines a light on extreme and underground metal. This week, Andy recommends new releases from House of Lightning, Sutekh Hexen, Autopsy, and...
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The Enduring Cultural Weight of the Anthology of American Folk Music
My back is killing me and it’s all Harry Smith’s fault.Last week I received my copy of Mississippi Records’ limited edition vinyl box set containing all four volumes of the Anthology of American Folk...
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It's Not What You Like But How You Like It: Some Thoughts on Pop
If you read about music, you have probably encountered two recent pieces of writing on the subject of whether or not to take pop music seriously: One by the TV critic Saul Austerlitz for the New York...
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Director's Cut: Sky Ferreira's "I Blame Myself"
At some point, music videos became twisted lightning rods for discussion about race relations in America. So when Sky Ferreira released her spellbinding new clip for “I Blame Myself”—in which she’s...
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Why I Feel Alienated By Record Store Day
This Saturday marks the seventh annual Record Store Day, an event devoted to independent music retailers, fans, and limited edition vinyl releases. But, comprised mostly of now-legacy rock acts and...
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Pitchfork Podcast 21: Streaming Music
On this week's Pitchfork Podcast, Pitchfork editor-in-chief Mark Richardson talks with contributor Eric Harvey about the state of streaming music, a saga Harvey recently laid out in a cover story....
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Down Is Up 20: USA '13
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. Today, Jenn Pelly...
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