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Photo Galleries
Photo Galleries: Pitchfork SXSW Showcase
Pitchfork; March 17, 2014
Tonje Thilesen captures portraits and live shots of Real Estate, Mark Kozelek, EMA, and more from our show at Austin's Central Presbyterian Church.
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Articles
Articles: Real Estate: Suburban Dreams
Larry Fitzmaurice; February 27, 2014
After spending years waxing nostalgic, Real Estate move into the present with crisp focus on their third album, Atlas. But can they hold onto their carefree vibe while taking on ...
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Staff Lists
Staff Lists: The 40 Most Anticipated Releases of 2014
Pitchfork Staff; January 16, 2014
The records we're looking forward to most this year including: Grimes, Cloud Nothings, Beck, Joanna Newsom, Mac DeMarco, Nicki Minaj, Solange, Real Estate, Rustie, St. Vincent, Swans, and more.
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Articles
Articles: Record Stories
Pitchfork; April 19, 2013
In celebration of Record Store Day, artists including Danny Brown, How to Dress Well, the National, Jim James, Bat for Lashes, A.C. Newman, Madlib, Sharon Van Etten, and others ...
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Staff Lists
Staff Lists: Guest List: Best of 2012
Various Artists; December 31, 2012
Year-end lists from some of our favorite artists including: Chairlift's Top Brain-Melt Moments, Titus Andronicus' Record Company Fails, The Top 10 Partiest Things Andrew W.K. Visualized This Year ...
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Articles
Articles: Pitchfork Music Festival 2012
Pitchfork; July 16, 2012
Full coverage and photos from every set, including Vampire Weekend, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Beach House, Grimes, A$AP Rocky, and lots more.
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Inbox
Inbox: The Curious Case of Lil B
Pitchfork; March 22, 2012
In the latest edition of our mailbag feature, we field questions about web-rap enigma Lil B, Real Estate's (possibly offensive) pleasantness, the availability of a certain neon-orange energy drink ...
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Guest Lists
Guest Lists: Guest List: Best of 2011
Pitchfork; December 21, 2011
Artists submit their 2011 Best Ofs-- from albums and songs lists to Favorite Chinatowns and Things Not to Do on Tour.
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Staff Lists
Staff Lists: The Top 50 Albums of 2011
Pitchfork; December 15, 2011
Our annual list of the LPs that had us coming back time and time again throughout the year, including records by Bon Iver, Liturgy, Real Estate, and Frank Ocean, to ...
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Staff Lists
Staff Lists: The Top 100 Tracks of 2011
Pitchfork; December 12, 2011
Our favorite songs from the last 12 months, including tracks from Wild Flag, Fucked Up, M83, Danny Brown, Kurt Vile, James Blake, Jay and Kanye, and many more.
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Staff Lists
Staff Lists: The Top Music Videos of 2011
Pitchfork; December 7, 2011
From Kreayshawn's Minnie Mouse headband to Mastodon's psychotic puppets to Tyler, the Creator's appetite for insects, here are our favorite videos of the year.
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Why We Fight
Why We Fight: How Do You Like Your Noise?
Nitsuh Abebe; November 5, 2010
Blissed out or cathartic, indie rock's favorite approaches to noise range from happy dream to ugly nightmare.
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Articles
Articles: Photos: Pitchfork Music Festival 2010
Pitchfork; July 20, 2010
A compilation of photography from the Pitchfork Music Festival, including artist portraits by Sanchez and Kitahara.
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Articles
Articles: Pitchfork Music Festival 2010
Pitchfork; July 19, 2010
Photos and interviews after three days of music in Chicago's Union Park-- LCD Soundsystem, Neon Indian, Robyn, Liars, Panda Bear, many more.
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Staff Lists
Staff Lists: The Top 50 Albums of 2009
Pitchfork Staff; December 17, 2009
We closed out 2009 with our annual review of the year's 50 best albums.
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Staff Lists
Staff Lists: The Top 100 Tracks of 2009
Pitchfork Staff; December 14, 2009
Our favorite songs of the year.
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Resonant Frequency
Resonant Frequency: In My Room (The Best Coast Song): Nine Fragments on Lo-fi's Attraction to the Natural World
Mark Richardson; November 13, 2009
The summer of chillwave and songs about summer for guys in front of their computers.
News
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Watch Real Estate Cover Neil Young's "Only Love Can Break Your Heart"
Photo by Shawn Brackbill
In support of their great new album Atlas, Real Estate played the Fonda Theater in L.A. on March 11. Kevin ...
March 21, 2014 at 03:26 p.m.
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Watch Real Estate's Behind-the-Scenes Video on the Making of Atlas
Real Estate's excellent new record Atlas is out this week. Today, their label Domino has shared a behind-the-scenes video exploring the making of the ...
March 3, 2014 at 11:42 a.m.
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Watch Real Estate Perform New Album Atlas in Full
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Real Estate's new album Atlas arrives next week Domino. You might have already heard it via iTunes Radio; now you ...
February 28, 2014 at 09:48 a.m.
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Stream Real Estate's New Album Atlas
Next week, Real Estate will release their much-anticipated Days followup, Atlas. They've already let two songs go—the excellent "Talking Backwards" and "Crime"—and ...
February 25, 2014 at 11:57 a.m.
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Watch Real Estate's "Crime" Guitar Tab Tutorial Video
Real Estate's new album Atlas arrives on March 4 in the U.S. and March 3 in the UK via Domino. You may have ...
February 20, 2014 at 08:52 a.m.
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Listen: Real Estate Play "Talking Backwards", "The Bend", and "April's Song" on WNYC Soundcheck
Photo by Shawn Brackbill
Real Estate recently shared a great new track, "Talking Backwards", from their upcoming album, Atlas, out through Domino on March 4 ...
January 30, 2014 at 03:56 p.m.
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Real Estate Announce North American Tour
Photo by Shawn Brackbill
New Jersey chillers Real Estate just announced their next LP, Atlas, the follow-up to 2011's excellent Days. It's out ...
January 14, 2014 at 11:46 a.m.
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Real Estate Announce New Album Atlas, Share "Talking Backwards"
Front page photo by Erez Avissar
At last, after months of teasing a new record, Real Estate have announced a new LP to follow their ...
January 13, 2014 at 11:04 p.m.
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Watch: Real Estate Tease Upcoming Album With In-Studio Footage
Real Estate have already confirmed that they've been at work on their follow-up to 2011's excellent LP Days (apparently aiming for an early ...
September 10, 2013 at 10:00 p.m.
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Real Estate Announce Fall West Coast Tour
Photo by Erez Avissar
It's been a very quiet 2013 for Real Estate. While the band's guitarist Matt Mondanile released a new LP ...
July 17, 2013 at 01:16 p.m.
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Watch: Yo La Tengo Perform With Andrew Bird, the Feelies, More During Hanukkah Residency
Photo by Carlie Armstrong
Nearly every year, Yo La Tengo celebrate Hanukkah with special guests at Maxwell's in Hoboken. Here's footage from ...
December 16, 2012 at 08:25 p.m.
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Photos: Occupy Sandy Benefit With Vampire Weekend, Dirty Projectors, Walkmen, Real Estate
Above: Dirty Projectors by Ebru Yeldiz
Occupy Sandy held a benefit concert at Brooklyn's St. Ann's & the Holy Trinity Church on Saturday, to ...
November 19, 2012 at 11:45 a.m.
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Report: Occupy Sandy Benefit With Dirty Projectors, Vampire Weekend, the Walkmen, Real Estate, More
Photos by Ebru Yildiz
Occupy Sandy currently counts around 500,000 among their charitable ranks across the country, and yesterday, at Brooklyn Heights' St. Ann ...
November 18, 2012 at 12:35 p.m.
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Vampire Weekend, Dirty Projectors, Real Estate, Walkmen, More Set for Occupy Sandy Benefit
Recent weeks here in New York City have found Occupy Sandy-- the branch of Occupy Wall Street dedicated to grassroots Hurricane Sandy recovery-- at times ...
November 14, 2012 at 12:23 p.m.
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Ducktails Announce New Album, Share Track
Photo by Shawn Brackbill
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Ducktails, Real Estate guitarist Matthew Mondanile's other band, have announced their new album. The Flower Lane ...
October 10, 2012 at 09:15 a.m.
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Watch: Real Estate Perform Epic New Song
Photo by Leigh Ann Hines
Last night, Real Estate performed a new, as-of-yet untitled song at New York's Webster Hall-- the first they've ...
August 12, 2012 at 09:30 p.m.
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News in Brief: Portishead, Van Dyke Parks ft. Robin Pecknold and Daniel Rossen, Real Estate, Summerfest
-- Portishead have curated two concerts in Barcelona from June 22-23 at Poble Espanyol and Razzmatazz. In addition to two headlining Portishead performances, the lineup features ...
June 12, 2012 at 11:20 p.m.
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Coachella Sunday Photos: The Weeknd, At the Drive-In, Dre and Snoop, Girl Talk, Real Estate, More
Photos by Natalie Kardos and Chris Tuite; above: The Weeknd by Natalie Kardos
The first weekend of Coachella 2012 wrapped up on Sunday, with performances ...
April 16, 2012 at 08:59 a.m.
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Watch Real Estate's Coachella Set
Photo by Natalie Kardos
Real Estate played Coachella yesterday afternoon, with the New Jersey band performing every song from their 2011 album Days (bar "Three ...
April 16, 2012 at 08:10 a.m.
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Real Estate Expand Tour
Photo by Erez Avissar
Real Estate's spring tour in support of the last year's Days just got longer. The band has announced a ...
April 9, 2012 at 02:42 p.m.
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Dirty Projectors, Real Estate, Cass McCombs, John Maus on Domino Record Store Day Zine/Flexi Discs
Domino and Ribbon Music have announced one of the more awesome Record Store Day offerings in recent memory: a literary and art zine created by ...
February 24, 2012 at 10:05 a.m.
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Listen: Real Estate Cover "The Kids in the Hall" Theme Song, Do New Song "Exactly Nothing" Live
Real Estate will release their next Days single, "Easy", on March 5 in the UK and April 10 in the U.S. It comes via ...
February 23, 2012 at 12:02 p.m.
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Real Estate Announce Spring Tour
Photo by Erez Avissar
Real Estate have added a bunch more dates to their tour supporting the excellent 2011 LP Days. The new schedule includes ...
February 2, 2012 at 10:34 a.m.
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Photos: Real Estate / Black Dice / The Babies / OPN at K&K; Super Buffet
Real Estate, Black Dice, and the Babies performed at the K&K Super Buffet, a "new venue"/giant Chinese buffet in Ridgewood, Queens, this weekend ...
January 30, 2012 at 10:30 a.m.
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Photos: Girls / Real Estate / King Krule
Girls, Real Estate, and King Krule played New York's Terminal 5 this weekend, and our photographer Erez Avissar was around to catch some intimate ...
January 16, 2012 at 01:05 p.m.
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Hear Real Estate Play a New Song Live
Photo by Erez Avissar
Real Estate performed eight songs today on WXPN's "World Cafe Live". The entire set is now available to stream on ...
January 13, 2012 at 01:50 p.m.
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Real Estate Announce New Single
On March 5, Domino will release Real Estate's next Days single, "Easy", backed by the non-album cut "Exactly Nothing". It will be available digitally ...
January 11, 2012 at 12:48 p.m.
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Video: Real Estate: "Easy"
Real Estate has released a comedic new video for "Easy", the lead-off track from Days, one of our top ten records of 2011. Directed by ...
January 10, 2012 at 08:37 a.m.
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Watch La Blogothèque's Documentary on Pitchfork Music Festival Paris
Today, Pitchfork.tv premieres a documentary by La Blogothèque that chronicles Pitchfork Music Festival Paris. The 35-minute film features performance clips, interviews, and behind-the-scenes ...
November 30, 2011 at 06:02 p.m.
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Real Estate Expand Tour
Real Estate have added several more dates to the tour in support of their excellent new album Days. The band will play several European and ...
November 29, 2011 at 09:08 a.m.
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Photos: Real Estate in Los Angeles
Real Estate played Los Angeles' Echoplex this weekend, along with openers Big Troubles and James Ferraro. Our photographer Erez Avissar was on the scene.
Check ...
November 14, 2011 at 12:50 p.m.
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Video: Real Estate: "It's Real"
Real Estate bassist Alex Bleeker, in bed with a dog. T.G.I.F.!
Below, watch the vintage-looking, canine-worshipping, Weird Days-directed video for Real ...
November 4, 2011 at 09:50 a.m.
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Photos: Pitchfork Music Festival Paris [Friday]
Photos by Tom Spray and Charlotte Zoller. Above: Aphex Twin by Charlotte Zoller
The first night of Pitchfork Music Festival Paris included sets by Aphex ...
October 29, 2011 at 09:20 a.m.
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Listen to the New Real Estate Album
Days, the new album from Real Estate, is out October 18 in North America and October 17 in Europe on Domino. Album cuts "It's ...
October 10, 2011 at 01:22 p.m.
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Watch Real Estate Perform New Songs
In advance of the October 18 release of their new LP Days on Domino, Real Estate played some new cuts at an issue release party ...
October 7, 2011 at 12:44 p.m.
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Photos: Woodsist Festival Big Sur 2011
Woods, Real Estate, the Fresh & Onlys, Sic Alps, Thee Oh Sees, Sun Araw, and White Fence played the Woodsist Festival at Big Sur, at Henry ...
August 2, 2011 at 01:25 p.m.
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Real Estate Announce New Album
Last month, we reported that New Jersey suburban rockers Real Estate had signed to Domino. On October 18 in North America and October 17 in ...
July 12, 2011 at 09:25 a.m.
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Real Estate Sign to Domino
The self-titled 2009 debut from the evocative, lo-fi New Jersey band Real Estate scored a BNM from us and snuck into our year-end top ...
June 8, 2011 at 10:10 a.m.
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Photos: WBAR-B-Q
WBAR, the radio station of Barnard College in New York City, hosted their annual WBAR-B-Q on Friday, with appearances by Real Estate, Julianna Barwick, Blondes ...
April 18, 2011 at 04:45 p.m.
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Panda Bear Guests on New Ducktails Song
Real Estate guitarist Matthew Mondanile also records as Ducktails, and he'll release his new album Ducktails III: Arcade Dynamics January 10 on Woodsist. The ...
November 29, 2010 at 12:40 p.m.
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Bradford Cox and Real Estate Cover John Lennon
Last Saturday night at San Francisco club Slim's, Deerhunter leader Bradford Cox dropped in on opener Real Estate's set to take the lead ...
November 4, 2010 at 02:35 p.m.
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Photos: Deerhunter / Real Estate
Deerhunter, Real Estate, and Casino Versus Japan played New York's Webster Hall this weekend, and photographer Loren Wohl was on the scene.
October 19, 2010 at 11:30 a.m.
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New Real Estate: "Out of Tune"
Real Estate: "Out of Tune":
Those purveyors of lackadaisical suburban blues known as Real Estate are back with a new single on True Panther. It ...
August 19, 2010 at 01:50 p.m.
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Photos: Deerhunter / Real Estate
Deerhunter and Real Estate played Hudson River Park's RiverRocks festival last night, while Ducktails and the Big Sleep played an aftershow at Glasslands Gallery ...
August 13, 2010 at 11:55 a.m.
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Photos: Pitchfork Music Festival 2010
Photos by Francis Chung, Jeremy Farmer, Leigh Ann Hines, Joseph Mohan, Marty Perez, and Nolan Wells
The 2010 Pitchfork Music Festival kicked off with an ...
July 19, 2010 at 04:45 p.m.
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Video: Real Estate: "Suburban Dogs"
Lackadaisical New Jersey indie rockers Real Estate are more suburban New Jersey than you. Sorry. If their wistfully twanging, Best New Music'd debut album ...
March 10, 2010 at 02:45 p.m.
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Photos: Real Estate / Family Portrait / Alex Bleeker and the Freaks
Underwater Peoples-associated acts Real Estate, Family Portrait and Alex Bleeker and the Freaks (featuring members of Real Estate) played a secret show in Brooklyn ...
March 9, 2010 at 12:45 p.m.
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While We Were Out: NIN, Feist/Tweedy, Animal Collective, T.I., Lil Wayne
Photo via I Can Has Cheezburger?
Happy New Year! After a two week break, Pitchfork News is back in full swing for 2010. Of course ...
January 4, 2010 at 03:00 a.m.
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Hear Real Estate's Alex Bleeker Cover an Unreleased Girls Song
When Girls and Real Estate played together in Chicago last month, Girls frontman Christopher Owens played tambourine onstage throughout Real Estate's set, and members ...
December 15, 2009 at 04:00 p.m.
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Real Estate Release Radio 12"
Real Estate keep on barreling full steam ahead. Their debut album is only a month old, they've got a new EP out this week ...
December 15, 2009 at 01:20 p.m.