On the occasion of New Yorker staff writer William Finnegan winning this year’s Pulitzer for autobiography for his memoir, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life, he schooled us on the myth of surf-rock and the sounds you hear when you're inside a wave.

Chance the Rapper is the arguably the biggest unsigned rapper in the world, keeping his homegrown hero status intact as he's navigated the mainstream. Here's how he does it, and here's why it matters.

In anticipation of Anohni’s upcoming live debut of her stunning new album HOPELESSNESS, we examined her performance history, starting with her avant-garde theater days. 

From Social Experiment members Peter Cottontale and Donnie Trumpet, to standout guests like Jamila Woods and BJ the Chicago Kid, here are the most crucial members of the musical brain trust forging Chance’s sonic universe.

Since co-founding Pampa with Marcus Fink in 2009, DJ Koze has tempered his wilder instincts, developing a unique sound for the label that weds oddball sound design with dewy-eyed deep house. Here are 10 highlights. 

From the ins and outs of behind-the-scenes roles like professional songwriters, music publishers, managers, and working-class touring musicians, to the legal problems that plague superstars rich enough to charter their own jets, “Nashville” should be considered the anti-“Vinyl.”

The Misfits’ comeback might only be for two nights before they part ways again, but it’s happening, and that’s worth getting excited about—so much so that a handful of Pitchfork staffers had remembrances from their own teenage Misfits fandom that they just needed to share.

It’s hard to find any pop eminence who's held this sway over the charts… well, at least since 2009, when Prince’s lifelong competitor Michael Jackson died under equally shocking, premature circumstances. The postmortem parallels between the two on the charts are indeed spooky.

Before Katy B's "On a Mission" introduced radio audiences to South London bass music, she was deeply entrenched in the city's underground club scene. Her success since has seen her playing—and partying at—clubs around the world. Naturally, she has some tips to share.

In the years preceding and following the turn of the century, Radiohead's left-field stances made them political guideposts for listeners on both sides of the Atlantic. Can the band fully inhabit that role again?

In recent weeks, Radiohead, Beyoncé, Drake, and James Blake have all made short-notice announcements of not just release dates for new albums, but specific times. The result is a tune-in listening experience that's comparable to the appointment viewing (and tweeting) that drives prestige TV. 

Looking back comes with the territory of a reunion tour, so we sat down with the members of Lush just before their recent London comeback gig to do just that. 

As the beloved eccentricity that is the annual Eurovision Song Contest kicks off this week, let's revisit 10 of the most wonderfully weird Eurovision performances over the years.

With the caveat that Radiohead albums usually take a while to get into, here are some things to consider as you listen to A Moon Shaped Pool. 

With a new Radiohead album coming this weekend, let's pregame with a look at Thom Yorke's distinctive vocal work on other people's records. 

Lavender Country, the first openly gay country band, recently announced a headlining performance at North Carolina's Hopscotch Festival—a radical kiss-off to the state's ongoing legislative push for a "bathroom bill" discriminating against transgender folks. Naturally, LC's Patrick Haggerty has a few things to say about all that.

In light of James Blake’s brand-new collaboration with Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, we look back at his most successful collaborations to date.

After being forced from its location in San Francisco's historic Fillmore District, the long-running Church of Coltrane must find a permanent home within a city that has seen the worst of gentrification.

Our interview series Icebreaker features artists talking about things—some strange, some amusing, some meaningful—that just might reveal their true selves. This time, Kevin Morby gets silly.

Leave it to Radiohead to turn the idyllic UK children's show "Trumpton" into commentary on political nativism.