The magnetic bond between Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, partners in life and in music, has always been central to their songs. On their latest album, the "we" becomes existential.

For years, the elusive singer-songwriter has been working, at home, on an album with a strikingly raw and percussive sound. But is she prepared to release it into the world?

Fiona Apple’s fifth record is unbound, a wild symphony of the everyday, an unyielding masterpiece. No music has ever sounded quite like it.

Last year, the frontman of a promising young indie rock band made a confusing statement about being accused of sexual coercion. Now, a search for answers about what happened and what it means.

The unlikely story of how two childhood schoolmates changed each other’s lives.

Experts and artists including Santigold, Jeff Tweedy, and Denzel Curry trace a web of pressing issues while imagining the paths forward.

How the unlikely star became a phenomenon hidden in pop-cultural plain sight, influencing a generation of groundbreaking artists.

An in-depth interview with the singer-songwriter about everything Fetch the Bolt Cutters, recording with Bob Dylan, scrolling Tumblr, and so much more

Rare is a debut so fully formed and overflowing with music and emotion. Tidal grapples eloquently with loneliness, retribution, and the oceanic ups and downs of being young and being a woman.

Read Jenn Pelly’s review of the album.

Read Jenn Pelly’s review of the album.

Jenn Pelly speaks with Bikini Kill’s Tobi Vail and revels in the first of their reunion shows, held last night in L.A.

The core elements of Sonic Youth were still scattered all over their 1986 album, but its dark and sordid sound brilliantly captured the essence of an “underground” band coming to life.

There is no precedent for the Grammy-winning, chart-busting, Hot Topic-surviving Williams, who didn't offer permission so much as show a generation of emo girls they did not have to ask for it.

Condé Nast’s gutting of the esteemed alternative publication and its staff is the latest example of media conglomerates prioritising capital over culture

The promotion of XO on a mini european tour. This live appearance is from an old french television show. Featuring Janet Weiss on drums.

She’s the art-rock legend who made Sonic Youth punk – and now, at 66, she has made her first solo record. She drives our writer through LA to talk Donald Trump, existential angst and her anthem...

Read Jenn Pelly’s review of the album.

After a turbulent childhood and two decades of brilliantly vulnerable songs, the L.A. idol has finally arrived at something like happiness.

Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we revisit Björk’s second album, the foundation for one of...

In a new memoir and an album of songs they wrote as teenagers, the feminist pop stars look back at their traumas, triumphs and life as identical twins.

Her new album features duets with famous friends like Keith Richards and Maren Morris, but Crow's brilliant career hasn't always been given its due.

A reflection on DIY in the age of Facebook.

Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we revisit Carole King’s Tapestry, the second act that...

Laurie Anderson’s collaboration with the San Francisco-based string quartet presents a powerful, elegiac cycle of songs that show how human memory can be stronger than catastrophe.

This excerpt from a new 33 1/3 book on the feminist punk band’s self-titled 1979 LP details the squat-dwelling lifestyle that led to its creation.

The pop polymath guides us through his latest resourceful art project: selling live CDs of his opening sets for Harry Styles’ New York City arena residency.

The singer-songwriter delves deep into the hard-won life lessons that fueled her most epic music to date.

It’s the third episode of his Beats 1 show in 2019

Compact discs don’t have the romance of vinyl – but as a generation of tastemakers reconnect with their youth, that could be about to change

In her first interview since Bikini Kill reunited, the feminist punk hero revisits the past, revels in the joy of the present, and ponders the possibility of future music.

“Sleep to Dream” is the first track on Fiona Apple's 1996 triple-platinum debut, Tidal, which turns 20 this weekend. It is also a fight song like no other—a demand to be taken seriously, by an artist...

At her first headlining concert in more than two decades, the incomparable singer-songwriter led a star-studded affair, burnishing her legend.

From Emily’s Sassy Lime and Miranda July, to Casual Dots and Spider and the Webs, the riot grrrl galaxy runs deep.

From 1983 to 1985, Stuart Swezey organized a series of guerrilla punk shows in Southern California. His new film, “Desolation Center,” tells their story.

The Paramore leader opens up about moving beyond trauma, shame, and depression to reclaim her sense of self.

Three decades into her career, the art-pop musician is still embracing new sounds, carrying stories from the past and interrogating all kinds of power.

On "Good Souls Better Angels," singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams is unsparing, whether she's excoriating the president or detailing her own domestic abuse and depression.

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