The staff of Pitchfork listens to a lot of new music. A lot of it. On any given day our writers, editors, and contributors go through an imposing number of new releases, giving recommendations to each other and discovering new favorites along the way. Each Monday, with our Pitchfork Selects playlist, we’re sharing what our…
Slothrust typically make lightly grungy and melodic alt-rock, as evidenced by the pair of original singles they’ve shared so far this year. But Slothrust also have a knack for some good, unexpected covers of older songs: They released a whole EP of them way back in 2017, and then in 2023 they put out a…
A silver lining for missing Rilo Kiley‘s reunion shows: You’ll have one more chance to see them next year, when the quartet hits the road for select dates in North America and Europe. You can check out the full slate below. The announcement follows a busy year for the band—Jenny Lewis, Blake Sennett, Pierre de…
Primal Scream released their aggro electronic rock masterpiece XTRMNTR in 2000, which means it turned 25 this year. The band celebrated that quarter-century anniversary tonight with a full-album performance at the Roundhouse in London. For the main set, Bobby Gillespie and his band — which, sadly, did not feature the dearly departed Mani or XTRMNTR…
Times New Viking last released an album in 2011 with Dancer Equired! The Columbus lo-fi band reunited for shows in 2016, and didn’t play any after that. Now, they’ve announced their first gig since then, which will go down next year in New York. Alongside Snooper, the Spits, the Serfs, and Prison Affair, Times New…
2025 will likely go down in history as a particularly bad PR year for Spotify. We’ve known for seemingly ages now that the world’s most popular streaming platform pays artists fractions of pennies, but that rift between artists and the company’s head honchos grew exponentially this year after news broke in June that Spotify CEO…
Pictured above is award-winning Chilean singer and songwriter Mon Laferte who offers a sophisticated brand of Latin music that melds indie and roots rock, blues, bolero, cumbia, ranchera, and electronics with Chilean folk traditions. If that genre-bending description isn’t the perfect ambassador for our overall list of albums covering rock, blues, jazz, rap, country, classical,…
Nominees for the 2026 Golden Globe Awards have been revealed. Jonny Greenwood and Max Richter are among the picks for Best Original Score for a Motion Picture, recognized for the much-garlanded One Battle After Another and Hamnet, respectively. Nick Cave and the National’s Bryce Dessner, meanwhile, became first-time Golden Globe nominees. The pair are up…
In addition to putting out his own great new album Baby over the summer, Dijon also worked on two Grammy-nominated albums in 2025: Justin Bieber’s Swag and Bon Iver’s SABLE, fABLE. People are digging the Dijon sound, but it takes a lot of people to replicate that sound live! Dijon made his SNL debut last night as…
The White House’s social media strategy of late has been pretty simple: Use a pop star’s song in a video depicting mass deportations, spark outrage from said pop star, gain hundreds of thousands of views from said outrage, and then remove the audio before facing legal consequences. At least, this is the strategy that Sabrina…
