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Update: Girl Talk
Photo by Paul SobotaIf you've completely lost your shit to one of Girl Talk’s overwhelming sample-collage albums only to subsequently shelve it for the rarest of occasions, don’t feel so bad. Turns out...
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Cover Story: Mac DeMarco: Mannish Boy
Photos by Chris Buck Mac DeMarco: "Passing Out Pieces" on SoundCloud. It’s late October when I walk up to Mac DeMarco's home studio in Bushwick, Brooklyn, where the creaky iron gate outside never seems...
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Overtones: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road
Overtones is a column that examines how certain sounds linger in our minds and lives.Elton John's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" belongs on the short list of skating-rink songs that terrified me in my...
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Interviews: Jonathan Glazer and Mica Levi
After building a reputation for retina-rattling music videos including Radiohead's "Karma Police" and UNKLE's "Rabbit in Your Headlights" in the 1990s, Jonathan Glazer has charted a fascinatingly...
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Rising: Lee
Ryuhei Asano makes wide-eyed music that sprawls while feeling deeply personal at the same time. As Lee, the 27-year-old Japan native has released about a dozen sample-based albums on his Bandcamp over...
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Update: Future
On the 22nd floor of Sony’s Midtown Manhattan headquarters, Future—aka 30-year-old Nayvadius Cash—is fucking with a journalist over the phone. “This is a moment we’ll remember forever,” Future shouts...
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Paper Trail: Records Ruin the Landscape
“If you could only play a record once, imagine the intensity you’d have to bring into the listening.” – Avant-garde guitarist Derek BaileyIn the 1960s, experimental music was all about the moment....
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The Out Door: Decades in the Making
In this edition of The Out Door, we speak with three artists who’ve pursued their visions over multiple decades: 77-year old Swedish legend Bo Anders Persson of Träd, Gräs och Stenar, zither player and...
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Interviews: Damon Albarn
Photo by Linda BrownleeOn August 11, 1999, the South Coast of England plunged into darkness. The press had been talking it up for weeks—the last solar eclipse of the century—and on the designated hour,...
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Interviews: Lavender Country
Lavender Country: "Cryin' These Cocksucking Tears" on SoundCloud. Patrick Haggerty released the remarkable self-titled album Lavender Country in 1973. It’s a breezy, old-school-outlaw country record...
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Secondhands: Forever 21: Animal Collective's Sung Tongs
Secondhands is a column that examines music of the past through a modern lens.I first heard Animal Collective’s Sung Tongs on an IBM Thinkpad issued by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill....
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Interviews: Pussy Riot's Nadya Tolokonnikova and Masha Alyokhina
Masha Alyokhina and Nadya Tolokonnikova at New York City prison Rikers Island, where they recently met with officials. Photo by Erik Lohr for The Voice Project.On our ride from Lincoln Center to Soho...
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Articles: The Pitchfork Guide to Festivals
by Pitchfork StaffApril 10, 2014Welcome to the new Pitchfork Guide to Festivals. Formerly an annual rundown of our favorite summer fests, we've expanded and improved the Guide to make it a year-round...
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Paper Trail: A Man Called Destruction: The Life and Music of Alex Chilton
In 1968, teen phenoms the Box Tops were opening for the Beach Boys when they took a break from touring. The band's singer, Alex Chilton—barely old enough to vote at the time—was crashing at Dennis...
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Articles: I Know You Got Soul: The Trouble With Billboard’s R&B/Hip-Hop Chart
by Chris MolanphyApril 14, 2014Here, for your consideration, is a Top 10 list published in Billboard magazine toward the end of last year, in the issue dated November 30, 2013: 1. Eminem: “The...
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Festival Report: Coachella 2014: Photos
Coachella 2014 Photo by: Chris Tuite Coachella 2014 went down over the weekend, featuring acts such as OutKast, Arcade Fire, the Knife, Beck, the Replacements, and many more. Photographer Chris Tuite...
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Festival Report: Coachella 2014
by Ian CohenApril 15, 2014 Photo by: Chris Tuite Check out a photo gallery of portraits and live shots from this year's Coachella by Chris Tuite as well as a review of the festival by Ian Cohen. To act...
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Festival Report: Coachella 2014: Playlist
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Cover Story: Station to Station: The Past, Present, and Future of Streaming...
I. Merging into the StreamOn-demand streaming music has been part of the collective imagination for more than a century. It can be traced back to the 1888 publication of Edward Bellamy’s...
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Articles: Do Not Sell At Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World's...
The following is an excerpt from Pitchfork contributor Amanda Petrusich's forthcoming book Do Not Sell at Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World's Rarest 78rpm Records, which is due out July...
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