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Taylor Swift’s never been bigger—and her music’s never been less compelling
Taylor Swift: The Life of a Showgirl
Read Anna Gaca’s review of the album.
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October 6, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Taylor Swift’s never been bigger—and her music’s never been less compelling
Read our 5 takeaways from Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl
5 Takeaways From Taylor Swift’s New Album The Life of a Showgirl
The 12th entry into the all-consuming Taylor Swift musical reality show cuts right to the chase: She’s head-over-heels in love, and she has some scores to settle.
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October 3, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Read our 5 takeaways from Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl
It is a sweet time to be Oklou. Pitchfork caught up with her on one of the hottest days of the summer to sip neon citronnade, talk about her debut album and its upcoming deluxe edition, and bask in the softness of new motherhood
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October 1, 2025 at 4:04 PM
It is a sweet time to be Oklou. Pitchfork caught up with her on one of the hottest days of the summer to sip neon citronnade, talk about her debut album and its upcoming deluxe edition, and bask in the softness of new motherhood
Read our cover story: pitchfork.com/features/cov...
Read our cover story: pitchfork.com/features/cov...
Presenting the 100 best rap albums of all time
The 100 Best Rap Albums of All Time
We rank the most essential and influential albums of this quintessentially American art form.
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September 30, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Presenting the 100 best rap albums of all time
No Joy's Bugland is named Best New Music 🏆
No Joy: Bugland
Read Sadie Sartini Garner’s review of the album.
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August 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
No Joy's Bugland is named Best New Music 🏆
The Sunday Review ☀️ Toni Braxton's Secrets
Today, we revisit the R&B diva’s 1996 album, a blend of grown-up pop and sultry quiet storm that reconciled Braxton’s soul roots with a sexier, more youthful edge
Today, we revisit the R&B diva’s 1996 album, a blend of grown-up pop and sultry quiet storm that reconciled Braxton’s soul roots with a sexier, more youthful edge
Toni Braxton: Secrets
Read Clover Hope’s review of the album.
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August 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
The Sunday Review ☀️ Toni Braxton's Secrets
Today, we revisit the R&B diva’s 1996 album, a blend of grown-up pop and sultry quiet storm that reconciled Braxton’s soul roots with a sexier, more youthful edge
Today, we revisit the R&B diva’s 1996 album, a blend of grown-up pop and sultry quiet storm that reconciled Braxton’s soul roots with a sexier, more youthful edge
The members of U2—Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr.—have each shared their own individual statements on Israel’s ongoing starvation of the Gaza Strip
U2 Release Statements on Israel and Gaza
We want our audience to know where we each stand,” Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr. wrote before sharing individual statements
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August 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
The members of U2—Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr.—have each shared their own individual statements on Israel’s ongoing starvation of the Gaza Strip
The kind of music you make when the future is uncertain and you want to keep the end at bay for as long as you can
The Black Keys: No Rain, No Flowers
Read Stephen Thomas Erlewine’s review of the album.
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August 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The kind of music you make when the future is uncertain and you want to keep the end at bay for as long as you can
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Over at @pitchfork.com, I review No Rain, No Flowers, the album where the Black Keys recover from a tumultuous year by steering toward the middle of the road. pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
The Black Keys: No Rain, No Flowers
Read Stephen Thomas Erlewine’s review of the album.
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August 7, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Over at @pitchfork.com, I review No Rain, No Flowers, the album where the Black Keys recover from a tumultuous year by steering toward the middle of the road. pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
Perhaps the most interesting frictions in the Ethel Cain universe play out in the relationships between the character, her author, and their shared audience
Ethel Cain: Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You
Read Olivia Horn’s review of the album.
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August 7, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Perhaps the most interesting frictions in the Ethel Cain universe play out in the relationships between the character, her author, and their shared audience
Revisit our Sunday Review of a Perfect 10 international breakthrough
King Sunny Adé: Juju Music
Read Will Hermes’ review of the album.
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August 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Revisit our Sunday Review of a Perfect 10 international breakthrough
Here are 20 picks for Song of the Summer
20 Contenders for the 2025 Song of the Summer
Not sure if there’s really a Song of the Summer? Take a look at our favorites of the season, including “Whim Whamiee,” bops by Sabrina Carpenter and PinkPantheress, some egg-punk, and more.
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August 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Here are 20 picks for Song of the Summer
Sony Music Entertainment is suing Rhapsody International, the parent company of streaming service Napster
Sony Music Sues Napster Over Missed Royalty Payments
The company is claiming $9.2 million in unpaid royalties and a potential $36 million in damages from copyright infringement.
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August 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Sony Music Entertainment is suing Rhapsody International, the parent company of streaming service Napster
It’s Never Over has no interest in painting Jeff Buckley as a doomed, tragic figure, but as an artist who somehow foresaw his brief life—and devoured the world, while he could
It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley Review: The Man, Not the Myth
With her new documentary, director and producer Amy Berg presents the late Jeff Buckley as a bottomless vessel for creativity—and rejects the idea that he was fated for a tragic end.
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August 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
It’s Never Over has no interest in painting Jeff Buckley as a doomed, tragic figure, but as an artist who somehow foresaw his brief life—and devoured the world, while he could
Topshelf (@topshelfrecords.com) has launched a donation initiative to help aid efforts in Gaza
Topshelf Records Launches Donation Initiative for Aid in Gaza
The label behind Ratboys, Ekko Astral, and more will match donations to the Sameer Project for the next 10 months
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August 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Topshelf (@topshelfrecords.com) has launched a donation initiative to help aid efforts in Gaza
xaviersobased refines his singularly unrefined style on a short, slaphappy new EP featuring a standout song with OsamaSon
Xaviersobased: once more EP
Read Olivier Lafontant’s review of the EP.
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August 6, 2025 at 2:03 PM
xaviersobased refines his singularly unrefined style on a short, slaphappy new EP featuring a standout song with OsamaSon
A talent-stacked double mixtape that’s like a crystallized memory of the club in the mid-2010s
Metro Boomin: Metro Boomin Presents: A Futuristic Summa (Hosted by DJ Spinz)
Read Matthew Ritchie’s review of the album.
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August 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
A talent-stacked double mixtape that’s like a crystallized memory of the club in the mid-2010s
“Comafields” is one of the most affecting tracks he’s given us in a while—ambient trance as a weighted blanket for the soul
Our track review
Our track review
Burial: “Comafields”
The producer re-emerges with a 12-minute mini-suite suggestive of revelation or near-death experience.
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August 5, 2025 at 4:21 PM
“Comafields” is one of the most affecting tracks he’s given us in a while—ambient trance as a weighted blanket for the soul
Our track review
Our track review
Algernon Cadwallader is back 🥲
Algernon Cadwallader Announce Tour and First Album in 14 Years, Share Video for New Song
Trying Not to Have a Thought, the influential emo band’s third LP, comes out next month on Saddle Creek
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August 5, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Algernon Cadwallader is back 🥲
Heatmiser's Mic City Sons (30th Anniversary) is named Best New Reissue 🏆
Heatmiser: Mic City Sons (30th Anniversary)
Read Jayson Greene’s review of the album.
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August 5, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Heatmiser's Mic City Sons (30th Anniversary) is named Best New Reissue 🏆
The Armed's sixth album faces down the apocalypse with some of its heaviest music yet: visceral, vital, and filled with desperate, righteous anger
The Armed: THE FUTURE IS HERE AND EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE DESTROYED
Read Alex Robert Ross’ review of the album.
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August 4, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The Armed's sixth album faces down the apocalypse with some of its heaviest music yet: visceral, vital, and filled with desperate, righteous anger
We're revisiting one of the strangest, most exhilarating products of the post-Nevermind alternative rock boom, the 1994 record by D.C. hardcore alchemists Shudder to Think
Read @philipsherburne.bsky.social's Sunday Review ⬇️
Read @philipsherburne.bsky.social's Sunday Review ⬇️
Shudder to Think: Pony Express Record
Read Philip Sherburne’s review of the album.
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August 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
We're revisiting one of the strangest, most exhilarating products of the post-Nevermind alternative rock boom, the 1994 record by D.C. hardcore alchemists Shudder to Think
Read @philipsherburne.bsky.social's Sunday Review ⬇️
Read @philipsherburne.bsky.social's Sunday Review ⬇️
Robert Wilson, the pioneering avant-garde playwright and theater director who collaborated with Philip Glass, Tom Waits, Lady Gaga, and more, has died
Robert Wilson, Boundary-Pushing Playwright and Director Who Collaborated with Philip Glass, Tom Waits, and Lady Gaga, Dies at 83
Wilson, whose work was often characterized by distinct lighting and the expansion of time, worked with art world luminaries like Laurie Anderson, Jim Jarmusch, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Allen Ginsberg, and...
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August 1, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Robert Wilson, the pioneering avant-garde playwright and theater director who collaborated with Philip Glass, Tom Waits, Lady Gaga, and more, has died
Miimii's “Sé Miimii” is named Best New Track 🏆
Miimii: “Sé Miimii”
Miimii is a rising talent in the bouyon scene, one of the fastest-growing genres in the Caribbean.
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August 1, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Miimii's “Sé Miimii” is named Best New Track 🏆
Chappell Roan treats an open wound with the sounds of the Cocteau Twins, the Sundays, and the Cranberries
Read our track review of "The Subway"
Read our track review of "The Subway"
Chappell Roan: “The Subway”
Channeling Cocteau Twins and the Cranberries, Chappell Roan puts her spin on plaintive 1980s dream pop.
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August 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Chappell Roan treats an open wound with the sounds of the Cocteau Twins, the Sundays, and the Cranberries
Read our track review of "The Subway"
Read our track review of "The Subway"