As they shed their masks and streamline their sound, UK psych-pop duo Jadu Heart sound like they’ve found their voice but not yet something significant to say. Read our review of Hyper Romance at the link in our bio. #AlbumReview #Pop #PopMusic
There's a new Burial remix out. It's of Charles Webster and Ingrid Chavez’s song “The Spell.” Listen at the link in our bio. #Burial #Remix #ElectronicMusic
Ultra Mono charges into the discourse, attempting to speak to the moment, like a hobbyist at a rally. It’s not listening, just shouting. Not radical but restless. Not bad, just unnecessary. Read our review of the new IDLES album at the link in our bio. #UltraMono #AlbumReview #NewMusic
@Deerhuntermusic's Halcyon Digest turns 10 today. It is a record about the joy of music discovery, the thrill of listening for the first time to a potential future favorite. It's nostalgic not for an era, not for antiquated technology, but for a feeling of excitement, of connection, of that dumb obsession that makes life worth living no matter how horrible it gets. Read more about this Best New Music at the link in our bio. #AlbumAnniversary #DeerHunter #HalcyonDigest #RockMusic
Even now, when Black artists break into the indie realm, they are often misunderstood and measured by a different standard than their white peers. We spoke to Black artists and professionals, including @shamir326, @spellling, and @nnamdithegreat about the roadblocks they’ve faced and the ideas they have for how independent music scenes can change for the better. Read more at the link in our bio. 🎨 by @drewknowitz
We have 11 songs for you this week, including new Bruce @Springsteen, @BfbDaPackman, and @JamilaWoods. Listen at the link in our bio. 🎨 by @drewknowitz #PitchforkSelects #PitchforkPlaylist #Playlist #NewMusic
While she was making her classic album Daydream, @MariahCarey was also recording alternative rock music. In an excerpt she tweeted from her new memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey, Carey discusses her work on Chick’s 1995 album Someone’s Ugly Daughter. Find out more at the link in our bio. 📷 by Paul Bergen/Redferns #MariahCarey #Daydream #MusicMemoir #MusicBook
By gleefully toying with masculine and feminine conventions, Grace Jones offered her queer audience a constantly evolving performance in which they could recognize their own sexual fluidity. “Bumper” succinctly captures her protean mix of playfulness and aggression, simultaneously tongue-in-cheek and dead serious. At the link in our bio, read more about the song, and 49 other that define the last 50 years of LGBTQ+ pride. 📷 by Rose Hartman/Getty Images #GraceJones #Bumper
With her earth-shattering 2011 album, Adele captured the specific sinusoidal hell of being 21, the emotional velocity that follows a first, serious love. There are refractions of her across the album—Adele Enraged, Adele In Love, Adele Avenging—as she tries to articulate identity through the shape of a lover’s absence. The album cemented Adele's legacy as an artist who could make once-in-a-generation milestones out of her music. Read our Sunday Review of 21 at the link in our bio. 📷 by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images #Adele #21 #SundayReview #PopMusic
Last year, Bea Kristi (@radvxz), who performs under the name beabadoobee, paid tribute to Pavement’s @StephenMalkmus on the straightforwardly titled “I Wish I Was Stephen Malkmus.” The London artist’s full-length debut, Fake It Flowers, asserts that Kristi is a rock star in her own right. Led by fuzzy singles “Care” and “Sorry,” Fake It Flowers is “pretty much my whole life in one album,” Krisi told i-D. Read more about that and 40 other albums we can't wait for this fall at the link in our bio. #beabadoobee #NewMusic #FallAlbums #Pavement #StephenMalkmus
@DianaRoss' “Love Hangover” is one of pop’s best portrayals of falling for a person so amazing that it actually hurts. Read more about one of the best tracks of the 1970s at the link in our bio. #DianaRoss #LoveHangover #70sMusic
☀️ The Sunday Review: Today, we revisit 21, @adele’s earth-shattering 2011 album, which granted the British torch singer entrée into the pantheon of iconic pop vocalists. Read the review at the link in our bio. #Adele #PopMusic
Baby Keem is supposed to be your favorite rapper. The 19-year-old has contributions on the Black Panther soundtrack, a music video directed by Shia LaBeouf, a tolerable 2019 mixtape with co-signs from Tyler, the Creator and Kendall Jenner, and oh yeah, he’s rumored to be related to Kendrick Lamar. He has a lot of hype – but is he any good? Read more, plus the best and worst of rap this week, at the link in our bio. 📷 by Bryan Blue, 🎨 by @drewknowitz #RapMusic #BabyKeem
“When Prince wants to shoot, you just start shooting.” The lensman behind Sign o’ the Times talked to us about some of his most iconic Prince shots. Read more at the link in our bio. 📷 by: @jeffkatzphotography #Prince #Photography #MusicPhotography
🏆 Lou Reed's New York is named Best New Reissue. Read our review of the album – a protest album unlike any other – at the link in our bio. #LouReed #RockMusic
"In terms of the culture and mood of the times, Kid A is the most emblematic album of the modern era," author and critic Steven Hyden says. Read the first excerpt from This Isn’t Happening, his new book about @radiohead’s prescient 2000 album at the link in our bio. 📷 by Paul Bergen/Redferns #Radiohead #ThomYorke #KidA #BookClub
Today's the day! Tune in today at 7 p.m. ET to relive the best of P4K Fest with moments from @lcdsoundsystem, @beaccchhoussse, @charli_xcx, and many, many more. And, if you're able, donate to @mvmnt4blklives. All the info is at the link in our bio. 🎨 by @drewknowitz #PitchforkMusicFestival #LiveMusic #Livestream
On the second album under her solo alias, @sad13 uses maximalist electronic pop to explore youth, self-perception, and a reckoning with the past. Read our review of Haunted Painting at the link in our bio. #Sad13 #NewMusic
Go back in time and watch Mitski perform at our 2017 festival when the Best of Pitchfork Music Festival airs Saturday, 7 p.m. ET. You can watch the special at the link in our bio or on the pitchfork.com homepage. 📷 by Barry Brecheisen/WireImage #Mitski #PitchforkMusicFestival
Popularized by the likes of Boards of Canada in the ‘90s, IDM is marked by tangled robot rhythms and twisted timbres—as well as a surprising amount of tear-jerking melody. It feels like the imaginary music of sentient machines. At the link in our bio, listen to a playlist of IDM tracks that tomorrow's androids may sing to themselves as they love, hurt, and reminisce. 📷 by Joe Schilling/The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images/Getty Images #IDM #Playlist #BoardsofCanada
Nina Simone’s classic 1965 albums I Put a Spell on You and Pastel Blues are being reissued on vinyl. Learn more and find where you can get them at the link in our bio. 📷 by Getty Images #NinaSimone #Jazz #Vinyl
Four years after its release on SoundCloud, Lil Peep’s Hellboy is now available across all digital streaming platforms for the first time. Read more, including our Sunday Review of Hellboy, at the link in our bio. 📷 by @prettypukee #LilPeep
The title track on The Ascension is one of the best songs Sufjan Stevens has ever written. Also worth noting: It takes more than an hour to get to it. Read our review of the exhaustive, dense, and detailed album at the link in our bio. #SufjanStevens #NewMusic
"Would you say if there was no @FleetFoxes there would be no @PostMalone?" We asked the big questions on this week's episode of the podcast. Listen at the link in our bio. 🎨 by @drewknowitz #PitchforkReview #Podcast #PitchforkPodcast #MusicPodcast #FleetFoxes #SufjanStevens #PostMalone
It's almost Best of Pitchfork Music Festival weekend, and we're saving you a front-row seat (on your couch). At the link in our bio, set yourself a reminder to watch @Saintrecords, @Wilco, @LCDSoundsystem, @Grimes, and many more – this Saturday, 7 p.m. ET. 🎨 by @drewknowitz #PitchforkFest #DriveIn #Livestream
A new documentary follows Linda Ronstadt as she explores her deep connections to Mexican folk culture alongside the performing arts group Los Cenzontles. Learn more at the link in our bio. 📷 by Steffin Butler/NBCU Photo Bank #LindaRonstadt #LosCenzontles #documentary
At the link in our bio, read the first excerpt from Steven Hyden’s This Isn’t Happening. His new book about Kid A explores how @Radiohead struggled to reinvent themselves while making the album, and how it serves as a time capsule for the early, confusing years of the ’00s more broadly. 🎨 by @drewknowitz #Radiohead #KidA #MusicBooks
On our latest episode of Critical Breakthroughs, @Alanis Morissette breaks down some of her biggest songs—yes, including "Ironic." Watch the entire thing at the link in our bio. #AlanisMorissette #Ironic #SuchPrettyForksInTheRoad
Dua Saleh has been announced as a recurring cast member on the British teen comedy-drama series Sex Education. The rising Minneapolis musician will portray a character named Cal, a nonbinary student at the fictional Moordale Secondary school, in a recurring role. Find out more at the link in our bio. 📷 by Izzy Commers #DuaSaleh #SexEducation
One month after releasing 7G, PC Music founder @agcook404 refines his synthesis of futurist pop and experimental electronic music, flirting with cerebral schmaltz and information overload. Read our review of his new album Apple at the link in our bio. #AGCook #PCMusic #NewMusic #AlbumReview
Happy Birthday Bruce @Springsteen! At the link in our bio, revisit the songs and albums that define him as an icon. 📷 by Fin Costello/Redferns #BruceSpringsteen #Rock #RockMusic
Today would have been John Coltrane's 94th birthday. Spend some time with the jazz legend's groundbreaking body of work at the link in our bio. 📷by JP Jazz Archive /Redferns #Jazz #JazzMusic #JohnColtrane
@PerfumeGenius' Too Bright turns 6 today. It's a record about shattering illusions, defiantly looking away when you feel like it, and boldly staring back at those who hate you. Revisit our review of this Best New Music at the link in our bio. #PerfumeGenius #TooBright #AlbumReview #AlbumAnniversary
Congratulations, Thom Yorke and Dajana Roncione! The Radiohead frontman and Italian actress have gotten married. The ceremony took place in Sicily. You can see photos at the link in our bio. 📷 by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images #ThomYorke #Radiohead #DajanaRoncione
“@Prince would show up at a photo shoot wearing what you would think was the stage outfit, and that would be his street clothing. There was no difference.” We talked to Prince’s exclusive photographer about what it was like working together for over a decade. Read our interview at the link in our bio. 📷 by: @jeffkatzphotography #Prince #Photography #MusicPhotography
@FleetFoxes' Best New Music streak continues. Read our review of Shore at the link in our bio. #FleetFoxes #BestNewMusic #FolkRock
Yellow Days' funk-inspired synth pop is appealingly goofy, but too often, he sounds caught in a bland impersonation act of his own making. Read our review of A Day in a Yellow Beat at the link in our bio. #YellowDays
Pamela Hutchinson, pictured left, of the R&B girl group the Emotions died Friday at age 61, the band announced this week. Hutchinson won a Grammy and earned a No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with the Emotions' biggest hit – "Best of My Love." Read more about her life and work at the link in our bio. 📷Michael Putland/Getty Images #TheEmotions #PamelaHutchinson
Grimes, meet Kraft Punk. The singer is set to appear on the new season of the The Eric Andre Show, which returns next month to Adult Swim. See the recently-released list of season 5 guests at the link in our bio. 📷 courtesy of Adult Swim #Grimes #EricAndre #KraftPunk
@boniver's Eaux Claires Festival has launched a new voting initiative ahead of the 2020 election called “For Wisconsin,” which is set to include both online and in-person events. You can also win a visit with Bon Iver's Justin Vernon. Find out how at the link in our bio. #NationalVoterRegistrationDay #BonIver #JustinVernon #Wisconsin
In the 10 years since Cults released "Go Outside," the mainstream pop industry has come to inhabit the darkness they pioneered (see: Lorde, Billie Eilish). Now, the band is back with its fourth album, Host, which sees the dream pop of their earlier work bolstered by live instruments. Read our review of Host at the link in our bio. #Cults #NewMusic #IndiePop
Fenne Lily’s new album includes a song she wrote after rereading Patti Smith’s Just Kids and embarking on a lone odyssey to the infamous colosseum of sin and techno – Berghain. The result? A lulling slowcore ballad that resembles an old Taylor Swift gem. Read our review of her new album BREACH at the link in our bio. #FenneLily #NewMusic
Yo La Tengo have shared a new song from their upcoming EP. Listen to "Bleeding" at the link in our bio. #YoLaTengo #NewMusic
Missing live music? Join us this Saturday for the Best of Pitchfork Music Festival livestream. We'll be showing rare and archival performances from past festivals including @lcdsoundsystem, pictured here at @pitchforkfest in 2017. Tune in on our website or YouTube channel this Saturday beginning at 7 p.m. Eastern, and get more info at the link in our bio. 📷 by Barry Brecheisen/WireImage #LCDSoundsystem #MusicFestival #PitchforkMusicFestival #LiveMusic
As teased and promised, @fleetfoxes have released their fourth album, Shore. The release of the record, which follows 2017’s Crack-Up, coincides with today’s autumnal equinox. Watch the Shore film and find lyric videos for each song on the album at the link in our bio. 📷 by Emily Johnston #FleetFoxes #NewMusic
Sharon Van Etten's (@sharonvanhalen) sophomore album Epic turns 10 today. Classic songwriting with an ethereal delivery is central to the appeal of the album, but it's Van Etten's sense of confidence that really sells it. Read our review at the link in our bio. #SharonVanEtten #Epic #AlbumAnniversary #AlbumReview #RockMusic
Travis Scott is releasing a new single called “Franchise” on Friday. The single’s artwork is by George Condo—the artist behind Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy paintings. Read more at the link in our bio. #travisscott #franchise #georgecondo
Gus Dapperton looks like Brooklyn to people who’ve never been to Brooklyn. He looks like a rock star to fashion insiders. He looks cool to teenagers. And he sounds like anybody. Orca, his self-produced second LP, is an introduction to the psyche beneath the quirky bowl cut. Unfortunately, it fails to answer some key questions—namely, who is Gus Dapperton and what is he trying to be? Read our entire review of the album at the link in our bio. #GusDapperton #Orca #NewMusic #AlbumReview
Bobby Shmurda has been denied parole and will reportedly remain in prison until the end of next year. Read more at the link in our bio. 📷 by Bennett Raglin/BET/Getty Images for BET
What jazz record should every rap lover own? And what rap record should every jazz lover own? We reached out to a who’s who of rappers, producers, and jazz musicians working on the borders between the two genres to ask them these two questions. See what Ishmael Butler, @freddiegibbs , @DJPremier, and more had to say at the link in our bio. #jazz #rap #jazzmusic #rapmusic