Taylor Swift’s never been bigger—and her music’s never been less compelling
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Taylor Swift’s never been bigger—and her music’s never been less compelling
The standout track from The Life of a Showgirl is Swift’s most straightforward appraisal of her own power
Read our track review of “Father Figure”
Taylor Swift’s “Actually Romantic” is actually embarrassing.
Read our track review ⬇️
oklou cover story
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...
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
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
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
Revisit our Sunday Review of a Perfect 10 international breakthrough
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
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
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
"We’ve always been punk kids and always viewed Algernon as a punk band"
Read more from our interview here ⬇️
Members of the emo revival icons spoke with @iancohen.bsky.social about their comeback album, how the genre’s landscape has changed since their 2012 breakup, and more
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
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 ⬇️
Robert Wilson, the pioneering avant-garde playwright and theater director who collaborated with Philip Glass, Tom Waits, Lady Gaga, and more, has died
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"
"It was the only time in my life I saw her care about anything happening on a television. Sometimes, I even caught her humming the beat to herself while she fried johnnycakes on the stove"
Alphonse remembers his grandmother and her obsession with Fat Joe and Terror Squad’s biggest hit. Read more ⬇️
