Pitchfork
Pitchfork is an American online magazine launched in 1995 by Ryan Schreiber, based in Chicago, Illinois, and owned by Condé Nast. Being developed during Schreiber's tenure in a record store at the time, the magazine developed a reputation for its extensive focus on independent music, but has since expanded to a variety of coverage on both indie and popular music.
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Essay by Simon Reynolds, Pitchfork, 6 December 2011
Electronic music's evolution toward the thrilling excess of digital maximalism. ...
Review by Ned Raggett, Pitchfork, 24 February 2012
Since 1990, the Leeds, England-based post-rock group Hood have created a blend of something modern and timeless. This six-disc set is not a full career ...
Interview by Ned Raggett, Pitchfork, 7 August 2012
As the experimental rock duo return with their first new album in 16 years, vocalist Lisa Gerrard talks about the gift and curse of being ...
Jessica Bailiff: At the Down-turned Jagged Rim of the Sky
Review by Ned Raggett, Pitchfork, 12 November 2012
The Toledo slowcore artist Jessica Bailiff's new solo album, her first since 2006, is suffused with her familiar cool, half-chanted singing and plenty of sonic ...
Laurie Spiegel: Resident Visitor: Laurie Spiegel's Machine Music
Retrospective and Interview by Simon Reynolds, Pitchfork, 6 December 2012
The experimental pioneer's groundbreaking work with computers in the '70s and '80s helped lay the foundation for many of today's electronic noise makers. ...
Bryan Ferry, The Bryan Ferry Orchestra: The Bryan Ferry Orchestra: The Jazz Age
Review by Ned Raggett, Pitchfork, 7 February 2013
Reworking his past material as jazz instrumentals, Bryan Ferry's The Jazz Age is a self-consciously 1920s collection, openly meant to evoke Louis Armstrong, early Count ...
Review by Ned Raggett, Pitchfork, 11 July 2013
Late Night Tales, the compilation series that asks artists to create their ultimate "late night" mix, has become an institution. Röyksopp's installment includes a new ...
Review by Ned Raggett, Pitchfork, 13 August 2013
THE CLEAN'S DEBUT full-length, now reissued on vinyl by Captured Tracks with a bonus live EP, came after they'd already been legends for almost a ...
Worth Their Wait: The UK Music Press in the late '70s/early '80s
Retrospective by Simon Reynolds, Pitchfork, 2 September 2014
Originally published in the first edition of our print quarterly The Pitchfork Review last winter, this story finds author Simon Reynolds looking back on his ...
Review by Ned Raggett, Pitchfork, 21 April 2015
FOLLOWING 2013'S Change Becomes Us, which re-worked early 1980s song sketches into full songs, Wire feels at first almost strangely normal. ...
Prince: How Prince's Androgynous Genius Changed the Way We Think About Music and Gender
Essay by Simon Reynolds, Pitchfork, 22 April 2016
His clothes, songwriting, and production prowess all played a part in breaking through any and every type of convention. ...
Various Artists: Close To the Noise Floor – Formative UK Electronica 1975–1984
Review by Simon Reynolds, Pitchfork, 3 May 2016
THIS 4XCD BOX draws on electro-punk, industrial, synthpop, dark ambient, and more, including key early tracks from the Human League, Throbbing Gristle, and Orchestral Manoeuvres in ...
Review by Simon Reynolds, Pitchfork, 3 July 2016
On 1995's Different Class, Pulp and Jarvis Cocker were arty outsiders worming their way into the lives of ordinary folk, and they became pop in its most ...
Alan Vega: Infinity Punk: A Career-Spanning Interview With Suicide's Alan Vega
Interview by Simon Reynolds, Pitchfork, 19 July 2016
Following the musical iconoclast's death at age 78 – an in-depth conversation from 2002 that includes tales of dangerous old New York, what it meant ...
Essay by Simon Reynolds, Pitchfork, 19 October 2016
From the Residents' freakish Beatles sendups, to Spinal Tap's meta-metal escapades, to the gastronomic goofs of "Weird Al", a chronicle of those who have turned ...
Retrospective by Simon Reynolds, Pitchfork, 1 November 2016
PIL'S SECOND ALBUM, Metal Box, is a near-perfect record that reinvents and renews rock in a manner that fulfilled post-punk's promise(s) to a degree rivalled only ...
Retrospective and Interview by Simon Reynolds, Pitchfork, 29 June 2017
Forty years after its release, the ingenious studio gurus behind the robot-funk masterpiece talk about how it came to be. ...
Morrissey, The Smiths: The Smiths: The Queen is Dead
Review by Simon Reynolds, Pitchfork, 22 October 2017
Newly reissued as a boxed set, the Smiths' 1986 masterpiece still stands as an enduring testament to England in the '80s, the complex relationship between ...
Burial: Why Burial's Untrue Is the Most Important Electronic Album of the Century So Far
Retrospective by Simon Reynolds, Pitchfork, 26 October 2017
Delving into the politics, emotion, and musical history behind the disquieting masterwork a decade after its release. ...
Essay by Simon Reynolds, Pitchfork, 3 April 2018
Unlocking the mysteries behind the Scottish electronic duo's hallucinatory classic, which turns 20 this month ...
Essay by Simon Reynolds, Pitchfork, 17 September 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 ...
Comment by Jason King, Pitchfork, 21 February 2019
The classic rock band has always been savvy about its own branding and legacy, but their Oscar-nominated film takes things too far. ...
Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Ke$ha, Kendrick Lamar, Usher: Activism, Identity Politics, and Pop's Great Awokening
Comment by Jason King, Pitchfork, 11 October 2019
From Beyoncé to Kendrick to Kesha, pop's turn to political activism produced some of the decade's most memorable moments. ...
Roxy Music's For Your Pleasure
Retrospective by Rob Tannenbaum, Pitchfork, 13 October 2019
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 ...
Retrospective by Jason King, Pitchfork, 11 May 2020
Remembering the undisputed architect of rock'n'roll ...
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