Pitchfork's 150 Best Albums of the 1990s
From Lauryn Hill to Radiohead, My Bloody Valentine to Janet Jackson, Nirvana to Wu-Tang Clan, and so many more, these are the albums that changed music forever.
Addded Sep 28, 2022
Pitchfork's 250 Best Songs of the 1990s
The tracks that defined the ’90s, including Björk, Biggie, Mariah, Bikini Kill, Aaliyah, 2Pac, and many, many more.
Addded Sep 27, 2022
5 Notes From a Quiet Year: How Music Survived the Pandemic
Performers kept hustling. Nightlife thrived online. And we kept finding ways to make music - together.
Addded Mar 11, 2021
Pitchfork's 100 Best Songs of 2020
The tracks that defined this bizarre year, featuring Megan Thee Stallion, the Weeknd, Christine and the Queens, Noname, Waxahatchee, and more.
Addded Dec 7, 2020
Sunday Review: Beck's 'Mellow Gold'
We revisit Beck’s ramshackle 1994 album, a quintessential piece of alternative rock, experimental folk, and hip-hop that felt magically displaced in time.
Addded May 3, 2020
Pitchfork's Best Experimental Albums of 2019
Featuring Holly Herndon, Kali Malone, Fire-Toolz, and other voices from the fringe.
Addded Dec 16, 2019
Pitchfork's 50 Best Albums of 2019
The artists who ruled the year, starring FKA twigs, Bon Iver, Kim Gordon, DaBaby, and more.
Addded Dec 10, 2019
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s
The records that made the decade, starring Kendrick Lamar, Grimes, Bon Iver, Solange, Lana Del Rey, and many more.
Addded Oct 8, 2019
The 200 Best Songs of the 2010s
The defining tracks of the decade, starring Robyn, Drake, Vampire Weekend, Daft Punk, SZA, and many more.
Addded Oct 7, 2019
20 Songs That Defined Scott Walker's Curious Career
From teen idol to reclusive genius, Walker lived many lives.
Addded Mar 26, 2019
The 200 Best Albums of the 1980s
Kate Bush, N.W.A., Brian Eno, Madonna, Prince, and the other icons who defined a decade.
Addded Sep 10, 2018
The 50 Best Albums of 1998
A year of change starring PJ Harvey, Outkast, Bright Eyes, Lauryn Hill, and more.
Addded Feb 12, 2018
The 200 Best Albums of the 1960s
Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, Albert Ayler, the Velvet Underground, Eric Dolphy, Dusty Springfield, and the other artists who changed music forever.
Addded Aug 22, 2017
Making America Grateful Again
An epic new documentary examines the legacy of the Grateful Dead, more than 50 years after the band was born. What do the Dead mean now?
Addded May 25, 2017
Going Solo: Dirty Projectors’ Dave Longstreth Steps Outside the Frame
Following a breakup, a guy goes west, sifting through life for his art.
Addded Jan 30, 2017
Natural Selection: How a New Age Hustler Sold the Sound of the World
Before Irv Teibel, listening to nature meant leaving the house. Here’s the story of the man who brought the rain, thunder, and crickets to your stereo, one satisfied, relaxed customer at a time.
Addded Nov 2, 2016
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A cool, fun list, worst both a read and a listen. They could tone down the Bowie love though.
The 200 Best Songs of the 1970s
From 10cc to XTC, from London to Lagos, from 7” singles to side-long epics, and from punk to prog to ambient to disco, our list of the greatest songs from one of music’s greatest decades.
Addded Aug 22, 2016
The Many Man-children of Todd Phillips
The director of ‘Old School,’ ‘The Hangover,’ and ‘War Dogs’ is obsessed with fumbling, immature men - but that doesn’t mean he is one.
Addded Aug 16, 2016
A Young Parent's Guide To Raffi
The day starts well enough: no hangover, no fighting before bedtime, no crying from the nursery, no staring through the darkness at indeterminate hours wondering in what direction, if any, my life is headed. Coffee at 6:30, then playtime: books, rattles, games without rules.
Addded Apr 27, 2016
Afterword: Allen Toussaint
During Hurricane Katrina, Toussaint left for Baton Rouge, then to Houston and later, New York, where he played with some regularity at a quiet, handsome room on Lafayette Street called Joe's Pub. In 2009, he released an album called The Bright Mississippi , exploring the roots of New Orleans jazz.
Addded Nov 11, 2015
Life’s a Beach House
In a humid, third-floor space in a warehouse near Baltimore's Inner Harbor, Alex Scally lingers over an old Thomas Troubadour organ. The room is a fantasia of garbage: dusty keyboards, random tapestries, makeshift shelves lined with ephemera.
Addded Aug 24, 2015
Girls in Trucks
In 2015, female country artists are stymied by the radio industrial complex at a stunning rate. Why is the genre so bro-centric? And can it ever change?
Addded Jun 30, 2015
The Charmed (and Charming) Life of Shamir Bailey
It's drizzling in Las Vegas and Shamir Bailey is feeling a little beat, so he suggests we go to a crepe place in Tivoli Village that he thinks of as a second home.
Addded May 11, 2015
The Woman Who Froze in Fargo
In November 2001, an unemployed Japanese travel agent named Takako Konishi was found dead outside Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. Nobody knew Konishi was a travel agent, or what she was doing in Detroit Lakes, only that she was young, pretty, and far from home.
Addded Mar 18, 2015
Secondhands: Bleats, Whines, and Other Awful Human Sounds to Which Our Hearts Are Inexorably Tied
How the unvarnished voices of Tom Zé and the Mountain Goats' John Darnielle are able to transcend language to get at the root of human experience.
Addded Jan 22, 2015
Interview: Jordan de la Sierra
After a timely reissue, the New Age musician draws out his vast and surprising musical map.
Addded Jan 16, 2015
If You’ve Played Videogames, You’ve Probably Killed This Guy
Sometimes in the afternoon, or in the evening if a shoot goes long, the stuntman and self-described truth-seeker Reuben Langdon will make a cup of something called Bulletproof coffee.
Addded Jan 11, 2015
Nathan Fielder’s Awkward Moment
A glimpse into the brilliant, unusual, and unnerving style of the star of Comedy Central's 'Nathan for You' On the morning I'm to meet the comedian Nathan Fielder, a two-story Payless shoe store near the corner of Western Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard is on fire. Columns of black smoke swirl in the sky.
Addded Jun 29, 2014