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Staff Lists: The Top 25 Album Covers of 2013
By Michael RenaudDecember 5, 2013Even though most people's music is technically "covered" by hardshell cases nowadays, there's still a desire for visual counterparts—images that hint at the music...
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Staff Lists: The Year in Quotes 2013
Pitchfork StaffDecember 6, 2013 What does the term "punk" mean in 2013? Is the internet enhancing our enjoyment of music or totally killing it at this point? How important are record labels? What did...
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Photo Galleries: Gesaffelstein, Jacques Greene, and L-Vis 1990 in Miami
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Staff Lists: The Best of Pitchfork.tv 2013
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Situation Critical: Tavi Gevinson
Photo by Tavi GevinsonWith Situation Critical, we present artists with various life situations—some joyous, some terrible, some bizarre—to find out which songs, albums, or bands they would turn to...
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Photo Galleries: Lauryn Hill's NYC Comeback Show
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Staff Lists: The Top Music Videos of 2013
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Paper Trail: Facing the Other Way: The Story of 4AD
Throughout the 1980s, 4AD was both a record label and a mood. That number combined with those two letters signified music that was dark, dreamy, and decorous, its roomy reverb conjuring quiet drama of...
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Photo Galleries: Darkside at Glasslands
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Rising: Tessela
Tessela: "Hackney Parrot / Helter Skelter" on SoundCloud. Breakbeat music—bursting with high tempos and rowdy blare—has had an uneasy reputation within UK club culture for some time, and negative...
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Articles: Beyoncé's Muse
When Beyoncé's surprise self-titled album touched down last month, a minor mystery quickly shot out from the forest of the album’s liner notes. Among the usual suspects—Timbaland, the-Dream, Pharrell,...
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Photo Galleries: 285 Kent Farewell Shows
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Update: Actress
Everywhere he is, Darren Cunningham hears music. The London producer behind Actress as well as the engaging Werkdiscs imprint frequently takes inspiration for his outré-leaning dance music from the...
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Secondhands: Anything But Quiet: New Age Now
Secondhands is a column that examines music of the past through a modern lens.Connecticut, 1992: I’m 10 years old and lying on the floor of my bedroom, listening to a new age tape with my mom. The...
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Update: Angel Olsen
Photos by Zia Anger Angel Olsen: "Hi-Five" on SoundCloud. Late last year, Angel Olsen sat in a chair and sang for about 40 people in a low-lit pub in Brooklyn—a few audience members were sitting so...
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Starter: John Fahey
Starter offers introductions to artists, scenes, styles, or labels of the past, plus a playlist.“I consider myself a classical guitar player, but I’m categorized as a folk musician,” John Fahey says...
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Update: Future Islands
Future Islands, from left: William Cashion, Samuel T. Herring, Gerrit Welmers. Photo by Timothy Saccenti.To quote pop music’s foremost egotist, Samuel T. Herring has played the underdog his whole...
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5-10-15-20: Dum Dum Girls
5-10-15-20 features artists talking about the music that made an impact on them throughout their lives, five years at a time. This edition features the 30-year-old leader of hazy guitar rock act Dum...
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Update: Slint
We know what happened to Slint after their 1991 finale and masterpiece Spiderland. They’d broken up months ahead of its release, splitting up to focus on various side projects—each of them worked in...
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Rising: Sevendeaths
A few years ago, Steven Shade found himself alone in a hotel room when church bells started ringing outside. Inspired by the chimes, he sat down at his computer and tried to recreate them only using...
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