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Jun 21, 2025 - Messy, overheated, self-indulgent, divisive, and literally seminal, Metallica’s 1996 album lacked only a colossal 301-song, five-LP, 15-CD, four-DVD box set...

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Jun 28, 2022 - A personal essay that traces the complicated legacy of conscious rap, from the era’s turn-of-the-century heyday to new albums by Kendrick Lamar and Black...

Aug 14, 2017 - Daniel Lopatin accentuates the Safdie Brothers’ character studies with his hyper-real music. Instead of pursuing moments of trance-like calm or humor, here...

Dec 15, 2025 - The British rapper and New York production collective blend cloud rap, club trap, and stormy breaks to capture a slice of London life, dropping local...

Analysis and opinion about the most exciting and important music being released today.

Apr 1, 2025

Oct 31, 2024 - On his eighth album, Tyler is both mask-on and mask-off. It’s an electric, revealing, and perennially odd journey back into his aging psyche.

Oct 16, 2024 - A pyrotechnic Cindy Lee solo lights up the new single from the first Panda Bear album in five years.

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Dec 17, 2025 - Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius...

May 9, 2025 - Alphonse Pierre’s Off the Dome column covers songs, mixtapes, albums, scenes, snippets, movies, Meek Mill tweets, fashion trends—and anything else that...

Dec 3, 2025 - Alice Longyu Gao bonds with a giant egg in the Moisturizer single’s video, directed by Faux Real’s Elliott Arndt

May 29, 2018 - On his third studio album, Rocky is more experimental and personal. But for music that relies on the New York rapper’s artful intuitions, it’s unfortunate...

Jun 2, 2025 - The rapper-producer helms a five-minute, nine-artist freestyle with a beat that squeaks “like two hyenas fighting.”

Jun 4, 2017 - An unrivaled classic, Supreme Clientele marked a seismic rupture with rap tradition. It’s Tony Starks, invulnerable and silvery,...

Dec 4, 2025 - Recorded September 2024 in Nashville, this catalog-spanning, low-energy set lands with a finality that the duo perhaps didn’t intend.

Jan 9, 2026 - America’s insatiable showman returns with the lead single from his first solo album in a decade.

Oct 31, 2025

Sep 1, 2021 - Drawing inspiration from the abject state of contemporary Britain and nourished by fantasies of righteous violence, the latest album from the UK producer is...

Oct 24, 2025 - Director Scott Cooper takes a left turn and frames a smaller portrait of a rock’n’roll star, featuring Jeremy Allen White as the Boss searching for...

Sep 17, 2018 - An in-depth history of the most important pop innovation of the last 20 years, from Cher’s “Believe” to Kanye West to Migos

Nov 28, 2025 - Stereolab egg cups, Bon Iver mood mist, MF Doom action figures, and more unique gift ideas for every type of music fan.

Jun 23, 2025 - Rendez-vous au Pitchfork Music Festival Paris du 3 au 9 novembre 2025 dans tout Paris ! Une semaine d’évènements pour découvrir les artistes les plus...

Dec 11, 2025 - The Lady Bird actor stars as a lovelorn construction worker in the Heavy Metal song’s visual

Jun 27, 2021 - Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today we revisit Billy...

Dec 25, 2025 - His attorneys accuse the district judge of acting “as a thirteenth juror”

Aug 2, 2018 - On “Grey Graden,” Windhand ponder the thin line between life and death

Apr 7, 2015 - Henry Laufer, the Los Angeles producer who records and performs electronic music as Shlohmo, has always been a fan of distortion, but on his second full-length...

From dogs eating tampons to Kevin Gates singing Panic! At The Disco, 2016 got pretty weird. Here are the best moments of Over/Under from this year.

Feb 2, 2025 - The Compton rapper’s triumphant fifth and final victory for the diss track

Mar 27, 2015 - Like Beast Mode and Monster before it, Future’s latest mixtape hints at the lingering effects from the rapper’s soured relationship with Ciara. Where...

Oct 4, 2013 - On R Plus Seven, Oneohtrix Point Never’s follow-up to 2011’s Replica, Daniel Lopatin builds new music using the bright yet cold textures of the early...

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Dec 1, 2023 - The closing credits song to the Renaissance world tour concert film is a triumphant stomper with a midpoint switch-up.

Aug 1, 2025 - Alphonse Pierre’s Off the Dome column covers songs, mixtapes, albums, scenes, snippets, movies, Meek Mill tweets, fashion trends—and anything else that...

Feb 6, 2026 - A noise artist who once found hidden music in the crackle of fire sounds equally incendiary on her latest EP of club music, sculpting redlining rhythms out of...

Feb 3, 2025 - Beyoncé and Kendrick cleaned up at what became a star-studded telethon for Los Angeles wildfire relief, so we’re honestly not going to make fun of it (too...

Aug 3, 2020 - The next episode of “Listening Club” airs this Friday, August 7, at 4 p.m. Eastern

Aug 18, 2025

Jul 18, 2008 - The new album from Patti Smith (that's good!) is two discs long (that's bad), and it's a collaboration with My Bloody Valentine's Kevin...

Mar 27, 2025 - Mike Hadreas’ seventh studio album brings a more elegant and capacious sound to unanswerable questions of anxiety, grief, and disconnection.

Aug 18, 2025

Feb 13, 2026 - femtanyl make computer music that wants to mosh. The bitcrushed hardcore rave tracks on the duo’s debut LP are sometimes thrilling and sometimes too much.

Oct 5, 2025 - Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we revisit Polly...

Feb 19, 2010 - West London band's faux family business actually sounds like a business, one supplying value-added products at discount prices.

Jun 12, 2016 - With her self-produced fifth album, Kate Bush became a total auteur, embracing the possibilities of digital sampling synthesizers and creating a perfect...

Jul 5, 2025 - At their first show in 16 years, Oasis snapped back into their vintage form, brought to life their fans’ wildest dreams, and continued to serve as an avatar...

Sep 23, 2025 - The UK singer-songwriter’s sixth album is spectral and breathtaking. It’s a mood record of immense solitude, beauty, and free expression—with a crucial...

Jan 17, 2025 - The prolific New York rapper and producer discusses his forthcoming album, Showbiz!, a new mixtape with Surf Gang, and what life is like when you’re...

May 27, 2025

Aug 1, 2022 - Beyoncé’s seventh album is not just a pop star’s immaculate dance record, but a rich celebration of club music and its sweaty, emancipatory spirit.

Jul 24, 2025 - Tyler’s ninth studio album is a brisk, single-minded, and snappy dancefloor romp. He skitters through electro, synth-funk, disco, and Miami bass not to...

Feb 25, 2025 - Nothing is simply what it is on the Norwegian songwriter’s vivid and tender excavation of a scent memory.

Jan 15, 2026 - Music that is “generated wholly or in substantial part by AI” will now be taken down from the streaming service

May 27, 2022 - In a discussion with Joe Budden, the Top Dawg Entertainment rapper also addressed the leaked video of him having intimate physical encounters with men

Dec 8, 2025 - The Sometimes When You’re On You’re Really F**king On trek kicks off in May

Oct 15, 2025 - A rolling list of our favorite albums of the year, updated somewhat frequently.

Dec 8, 2025 - Amid starting a family, writing blockbuster pop albums, and making his acting debut in One Battle After Another, Dijon Duenas spliced together his second...

Nov 5, 2025 - The band’s first show in eight years—and the first with no new material in tow—minted their status as a legacy act. The 26 songs selected for the Madrid opener...

Jun 6, 2025 - From ’90s Cash Money joints and Tha Carter III leaks to irresistible beat-jacks, we went through over a thousand Lil Wayne songs—these are the very best.

Dec 12, 2025 - Songwriter Nate Amos polishes up 10 tracks from his Bandcamp days and confronts humorous self-effacement with new confidence.

Jan 15, 2026 - On a brief new project, the Detroit rapper finds strange, adventurous territory on the outskirts of his hard-nosed sound.

Jan 13, 2026 - “cat's oot the bag” wrote guitarist Robert Dallas Gray

Oct 18, 2025 - The pop star’s technicolor breakthrough sounds as radiant as ever on a deluxe edition, whose bonus material only highlights the magic of the album proper.

Jan 8, 2026 - Listen to the title track and “Even Mountains Erode” from Lillie West’s latest

Mar 5, 2025 - Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius...

Oct 2, 2005 - Swedish has-been self-finances her comeback album and winds up making one of the year's finest, smartest, and most engaging pop records.

Jun 16, 2020 - The stay-at-home concert broadcasts on Wednesday, June 17, at 6 p.m. Eastern

Feb 14, 2025 - With a squelchy, effervescent third single from her as-yet unannounced debut, Addison Rae makes not trying look easy.

Nov 24, 2025 - The veteran Atlanta producer’s new solo EP channels his familiarity with Southern rap history to celebrate a fresh lease on life.

Nov 7, 2025 - Find out who’s nominated for Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Rap Album, Best Rock Song, and more

Dec 1, 2025 - 21-year-old power-pop auteur Kai Slater is back with a deliberately constructed album that finds the sweet spot between winsome and whimsical, chaos and craft.

Aug 26, 2022 - New shows are set for Europe, plus Austin, Chicago, and São Paulo

Sep 15, 2023 - After contemplating retirement, Mitski returns with a new album that’s warmer, quieter, and more organic-sounding. For the first time in a while, she sounds...

Feb 8, 2026 - Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we revisit a cult...

May 9, 2025 - Kendrick Lamar and SZA continued their Grand National Tour on Thursday night, playing to thousands of fans at MetLife Stadium, in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

Jun 22, 2016 - On her fourth album, Mitski makes a resounding personal statement and stakes out her territory as one of the most compelling voices in the sphere of indie rock.

Aug 18, 2025

Aug 16, 2024 - Post Malone, pop’s premier sad sack boozehound, makes his first long-form foray into pure country music. And, as far as country pivots go, it’s a pretty...

Feb 17, 2026 - The Texas Guitarist also shared that his next album is underway

Feb 20, 2026 - On her first album since 2015, the Lizzie McGuire actress cowrites and collaborates with her husband on fizzy, centrist pop from the crossroads of...

Jan 27, 2021 - The stay-at-home concert broadcasts on Wednesday, February 3, at 6 p.m. Eastern

Nov 12, 2025 - The noise-rockers have signed to Sacred Bones for the I’ve Seen a Way follow-up, featuring billy woods on “Sicko!”

Aug 14, 2025 - Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius...

Jan 14, 2026 - The Red Hot Chili Peppers’ bassist will release Honora on March 27

Dec 24, 2025 - U.K. police ended their investigation due to “insufficient evidence”

Oct 28, 2025 - Singin’ to an Empty Chair is out in February via New West Records

Oct 27, 2020 - The music industry workers’ petition—which demands a penny-per-stream rate and other changes to Spotify’s business model—was signed by Frankie Cosmos,...

Jul 23, 2025 - Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius...

Nov 8, 2024 - Examining a field featuring Beyoncé, Charli XCX, Waxahatchee, Kendrick Lamar, the Beatles, and plenty of other notable acts.

Dec 6, 2023 - The year in indie rock, punk, singer-songwriter and solo guitar music, shoegaze, metal, and everything in between.

Aug 18, 2025

Jul 31, 2025 - The body horror debut from writer-director Michael Shanks boasts delightfully gruesome practical SFX, but gets bogged down in horror cliches.

Jun 6, 2025 - It was a Baltimore reunion, as friends, family, and fans gathered to celebrate Pitchfork’s new cover stars.

May 24, 2022 - We can now train machines to play and write music that goes beyond mere mimicry—but does that mean we should?

Oct 30, 2025 - Alphonse Pierre’s Off the Dome column covers songs, mixtapes, albums, scenes, snippets, movies, Meek Mill tweets, fashion trends—and anything else that...

Jul 20, 2024 - Highlighting some of this year’s most fashionable festivalgoers.

Nov 25, 2025 - On her third solo album, the Montreal singer-songwriter crafts playfully disorienting art-punk without ever losing her cool.