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• Holiday Gift Guide 2013

  Pitchfork Staff; November 26, 2013

  We've got anything and everything for the music obsessive on your list including: Ramones-branded pasta sauce, an idiot-proof synthesizer, Morrissey prayer candles, Drake socks, the year's ultimate box set, must-have cassettes, and more.

• Abandoned Efforts Toward Grounding

  Dave Tompkins; November 25, 2013

  Taken from the forward to Joe Mansfield's coffee-table book Beat Box: A Drum Machine Obsession, writer Dave Tompkins offers a personal history of his experiences with robotic rhythm, from Revenge of the Nerds, to 808s, to Schoolly D.

• A Window That Isn't There: The Elusive Art of Bill Callahan

  Mark Richardson; November 13, 2013

  Mark Richardson sits down with the 47-year-old journeyman singer-songwriter for a career-spanning interview about his personal history, his music, and the connection between the two.

• Atlanta to Atlantis: An OutKast Retrospective

  Pitchfork Staff; November 5, 2013

  Ten years removed from their last major album, a host of Pitchfork writers trace Big Boi and Andre 3000's path from Southern vanguards to the most universally beloved rappers in the world.

• Keep the Things You Forgot: An Elliott Smith Oral History

  Jayson Greene; October 21, 2013

  On the 10th anniversary of Elliott Smith's death, nearly 20 people who knew him talk to Jayson Greene about the singer/songwriter's remarkable musical legacy, album by album.

• Between Friends: How Sincerely Yours Created Their Own Weird Space Online

  Marc Hogan; October 9, 2013

  Marc Hogan on the history of Swedish label Sincerely Yours and why it became a meaningful entity within a world of online intangibility.

• Oneohtrix Point Never: Right Brain

  Mike Powell; September 26, 2013

  Mike Powell visits electronic innovator Daniel Lopatin in upstate New York's spaceship-like Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center as he works on an ambitious new audio/visual show that aims to be smart—but not too smart.

• Danny Brown: Top Underdog

  Carrie Battan; September 23, 2013

  After breaking through largely thanks to his madcap persona, the 32-year-old Detroit rapper is dialing the party down on new album Old-- but he's still not afraid to shit on his hip-hop competition. By Carrie Battan; photo by Josh Wehle.

• Not What They Had Planned: The Unlikely Endurance of the Wrens

  Jonathan Garrett; September 18, 2013

  As the Wrens' classic album The Meadowlands turns 10, Jonathan Garrett chronicles the Jersey band's entire history-- from alternative-era also-rans to indie-rock saviors.

• Radio-Friendly Unit Shifters

  Chris Molanphy; September 9, 2013

  Chris Molanphy breaks down the first quarter century of Billboard's Modern Rock chart-- from the Cure, to Nirvana, to Marcy Playground, to Linkin Park, to Incubus, to Phoenix-- finding an ever-shifting definition of what "alternative" means.

   

• Secret Music

  Jenn Pelly and Liz Pelly; September 7, 2013

  On the occasion of Cassette Store Day, Jenn Pelly and Liz Pelly explore nine underground tape labels, talking to their owners about why underground and DIY imprints choose tapes and the deeper implications of cassette culture. 

• The Return of the Replacements

  Stuart Berman; August 26, 2013

  Last night, the Replacements played their first show in 22 years at Riot Fest in Toronto. Stuart Berman surveys the set and finds out if the band's shambolic charm holds up after all this time.

• Underground Out of Poland

  Jenn Pelly; August 22, 2013

  Jenn Pelly travels to Poland for this year's OFF Festival and examines the country's current under-the-radar music scene-- from lo-fi punk and metal to neo-folk and synth pop-- through interviews with bands and organizers. 

• Lollapalooza 2013

  Paul Thompson; August 5, 2013

  With most of the headliners-- including the Cure, Nine Inch Nails, and the Postal Service-- peddling some sort of nostalgia, the most exciting acts at this year's Lolla were either up-and-comers or wub-friendly DJs, as Paul Thompson reports.

• That One Part

  Pitchfork Staff; July 18, 2013

  Our writers tell stories about how they can't shake that one part in that one song, and how it affected their lives. Includes tales of how a misinterpreted Hole lyric led to high school damnation, instant ecstasy via the Flaming Lips, and more.