Taylor Swift’s never been bigger—and her music’s never been less compelling
Taylor Swift: The Life of a Showgirl
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Read our 5 takeaways from Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl
5 Takeaways From Taylor Swift’s New Album The Life of a Showgirl
The 12th entry into the all-consuming Taylor Swift musical reality show cuts right to the chase: She’s head-over-heels in love, and she has some scores to settle.
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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...
Presenting the 100 best rap albums of all time
The 100 Best Rap Albums of All Time
We rank the most essential and influential albums of this quintessentially American art form.
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No Joy's Bugland is named Best New Music 🏆
No Joy: Bugland
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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
Toni Braxton: Secrets
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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
U2 Release Statements on Israel and Gaza
We want our audience to know where we each stand,” Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr. wrote before sharing individual statements
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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
The Black Keys: No Rain, No Flowers
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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...
The Black Keys: No Rain, No Flowers
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Perhaps the most interesting frictions in the Ethel Cain universe play out in the relationships between the character, her author, and their shared audience
Ethel Cain: Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You
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Revisit our Sunday Review of a Perfect 10 international breakthrough
King Sunny Adé: Juju Music
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Sony Music Entertainment is suing Rhapsody International, the parent company of streaming service Napster
Sony Music Sues Napster Over Missed Royalty Payments
The company is claiming $9.2 million in unpaid royalties and a potential $36 million in damages from copyright infringement.
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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
It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley Review: The Man, Not the Myth
With her new documentary, director and producer Amy Berg presents the late Jeff Buckley as a bottomless vessel for creativity—and rejects the idea that he was fated for a tragic end.
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Topshelf (@topshelfrecords.com) has launched a donation initiative to help aid efforts in Gaza
Topshelf Records Launches Donation Initiative for Aid in Gaza
The label behind Ratboys, Ekko Astral, and more will match donations to the Sameer Project for the next 10 months
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xaviersobased refines his singularly unrefined style on a short, slaphappy new EP featuring a standout song with OsamaSon
Xaviersobased: once more EP
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A talent-stacked double mixtape that’s like a crystallized memory of the club in the mid-2010s
Metro Boomin: Metro Boomin Presents: A Futuristic Summa (Hosted by DJ Spinz)
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“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
Burial: “Comafields”
The producer re-emerges with a 12-minute mini-suite suggestive of revelation or near-death experience.
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Heatmiser's Mic City Sons (30th Anniversary) is named Best New Reissue 🏆
Heatmiser: Mic City Sons (30th Anniversary)
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The Armed's sixth album faces down the apocalypse with some of its heaviest music yet: visceral, vital, and filled with desperate, righteous anger
The Armed: THE FUTURE IS HERE AND EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE DESTROYED
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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 ⬇️
Shudder to Think: Pony Express Record
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Robert Wilson, the pioneering avant-garde playwright and theater director who collaborated with Philip Glass, Tom Waits, Lady Gaga, and more, has died
Robert Wilson, Boundary-Pushing Playwright and Director Who Collaborated with Philip Glass, Tom Waits, and Lady Gaga, Dies at 83
Wilson, whose work was often characterized by distinct lighting and the expansion of time, worked with art world luminaries like Laurie Anderson, Jim Jarmusch, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Allen Ginsberg, and...
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Miimii's “Sé Miimii” is named Best New Track 🏆
Miimii: “Sé Miimii”
Miimii is a rising talent in the bouyon scene, one of the fastest-growing genres in the Caribbean.
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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"
Chappell Roan: “The Subway”
Channeling Cocteau Twins and the Cranberries, Chappell Roan puts her spin on plaintive 1980s dream pop.
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"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 ⬇️
On My Grandmother and Her Favorite Rap Song
Alphonse Pierre’s Off the Dome column covers songs, mixtapes, albums, scenes, snippets, movies, Meek Mill tweets, fashion trends—and anything else that catches his attention. This week, Alphonse remem...
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Cindy Lee has brought their entire catalog exclusively to Bandcamp, where it is now available to stream, download, and pre-order on vinyl
Cindy Lee Fully Leaves Spotify and Brings Catalog to Bandcamp: Listen
A comprehensive reissue campaign will also bring every Cindy Lee album, including rarity Cat o’ Nine Tails, to vinyl
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A shoegaze star born on TikTok scales up her sound with a full-length debut that’s beautiful on the surface but uninterested in challenging the genre’s priors
Wisp: If Not Winter
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Together’s cast and special effects department alone could make for a substantive horror classic, but the script is freighted with distracting cliches and errant plot developments
Together Review: Love the One You’re With
The body horror debut from writer-director Michael Shanks boasts delightfully gruesome practical SFX, but gets bogged down in horror cliches.
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On his debut album, the Detroit rapper wrestles with his home scene’s growing influence on mainstream rap. He offers a portrait of his city that’s both loving and critical, grounded in stories that couldn’t have come from anywhere else
Lelo: New Detroit
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