8 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Billie Eilish, Crumb, Shellac, and More

Crumb at Pitchfork Music Festival 2024

Crumb venture further into their psychedelic pop wonderland on Amama, the follow-up to 2021’s Ice Melt. Produced alongside Johnscott Sanford and Jonathan Rado, the album broaches a cosmos of daydreamy sound collage, insistent beats, and […]

8 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Yaya Bey, Amen Dunes, and More

Amen Dunes at Pitchfork Music Festival 2024

Damon McMahon plotted a sharp left turn for his seventh album as Amen Dunes, Death Jokes, learning piano and immersing himself in electronic composition and collage. The result is a meld of experimental pop, indie-rock, […]

Can Albums Ranked from Best to Worst: See the Full List

Can Albums Ranked from Best to Worst: See the Full List

Consequence’s Dissected takes a holistic look at an artist or band’s discography, a director’s catalog, or some other critical pop-culture collection. It’s exact science by way of a few beers. This time, we’re revisiting krautrock […]

10 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Jessica Pratt, Mdou Moctar, Kamasi Washington, and More

Jessica Pratt Here in the Pitch

With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming services. […]

Joni Mitchell Revisits The Vault, Unveils Next Chapter of Archive Series ‘The Asylum Albums (1976-1980)’

Joni Mitchell Revisits The Vault, Unveils Next Chapter of Archive Series 'The Asylum Albums (1976-1980)'

Photo Credit: Nina Westervelt In 1976, Joni Mitchell extended her talents on the road, delivering her The Hissing Of Summer Lawns tour to support her album released under the same name one year prior. Upon completing […]

8 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Taylor Swift, Bbymutha, Pearl Jam, and More

Lord Spikeheart The Adept

Washington, D.C., punk band Ekko Astral make their debut with Pink Balloons. As written by Nina Corcoran in her review, “Ekko Astral sound brash and impulsive,” and “Pink Balloons’ noise-punk barrage hits like a stray […]

National Recording Registry Adds Green Day, Notorious B.I.G. Albums

National Recording Registry Adds Green Day, Notorious B.I.G. Albums

The Library of Congress has announced this year’s selection of 25 “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” pieces of recorded music to archive into the National Recording Registry, led by albums from Green Day, The Notorious […]

9 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Future & Metro Boomin, Maggie Rogers, and More

Future  Metro Boomin We Still Dont Trust You

With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming services. […]