Pitchfork

Pitchfork Media, often called Pitchfork, is an online music magazine based in Chicago. It focuses on music journalism, delivering news, album reviews, and in-depth feature articles. Established in 1995 by Ryan Schreiber, who was then employed at a record store, Pitchfork initially gained recognition for its strong emphasis on independent music. Over the years, it has broadened its scope to include a mix of coverage on both indie and mainstream artists.

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Erika de Casier: Lifetime

1 day ago | pitchfork.com | Walden Green

By day, Erika de Casier deals out soft-spoken come-ons and kiss-offs via throwback R&B. By night, she’s an incognito hitmaker.
Kid Cudi Announces Summer Release of New Memoir

2 days ago | pitchfork.com | Matthew Strauss

Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi has announced his memoir. The new book, Cudi, will get released on Tuesday, August 5, via Simon & Schuster. According to the book’s description, Cudi is “a story of survival—through depression, addiction, isolation, and doubt.” In addition, the 41-year-old rapper, singer, and actor shared on social media, “Its filled w so much about my journey from my first memory to turning 40. Life lessons, the rager period of my life, and fighting my demons.
Nick Cave Has Stories of His Own About Being Mistaken for Nicolas Cage

2 days ago | pitchfork.com | Jazz Monroe

Nick Cave and Nicolas Cage are two of the most unmistakeable personalities in their fields. One is an artistic mastermind with striking vampiric looks who has used his intimate appreciation of avant-garde composers like Karlheinz Stockhausen to elevate a popular art form to the realm of greatness—and the other fronts a band called the Bad Seeds. Apparently, though, beyond the echo chambers of music blogs and Wicker Man memes, a wider world exists where people struggle to tell them apart.
Iggy Pop, Jack White, and Sex Pistols to Play New CBGB Festival

2 days ago | pitchfork.com | Walden Green

A new one-day music festival is scheduled for later this year in New York. CBGB Festival—not affiliated with the citywide CBGB Music and Film Festival of the early 2010s—will take place September 21 at Brooklyn’s Under the K Bridge Park. Iggy Pop, Sex Pistols, and Jack White are set to headline, with the Smiths’ Johnny Marr, Soul Glo, YHWH Nailgun, the Linda Lindas, Lip Critic, and Lambrini Girls also among the artists appearing on the bill. Check out the festival poster below.
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ Federal Sex Trafficking Trial Begins

2 days ago | pitchfork.com | Jazz Monroe

Sean “Diddy” Combs, the musician and rap mogul being sued by dozens of people for alleged sex crimes, begins his sex trafficking trial today (May 12) in Manhattan’s Federal District Court. Prosecutors will argue that Diddy abused his money and power to traffic, drug, and sexually assault women; the defense claims any encounters were consensual. Opening statements will commence today. If convicted, Diddy could face life in jail.
Mei Semones: Animaru

2 days ago | pitchfork.com | Claire Lobenfeld

“Dumb Feeling,” the opening track from Mei Semones’ debut album Animaru, is the only song I’ve ever heard about New York that is rooted, firmly, in ambivalence. “This is a special place/But how many days do I/Really feel/I think I’m special, too?” the 24-year-old Berklee College of Music grad sings without a whiff of pity-party.
Zukenee: SLAYTANIC

2 days ago | pitchfork.com | Olivier Lafontant

There’s a scene at the start of Game of Thrones that lingers in the back of my mind. Two knights are jousting for an audience of royals, aristocrats, and commonfolk. One of them, the brolic, seemingly unstoppable “The Mountain,” suffers a shocking loss to Ser Loras, the effeminate Knight of the Flowers. Embarrassed and incredibly pissed off, the Mountain decapitates his horse with a massive sword. Spectators can’t do anything but gasp.
SoundCloud Addresses Terms of Use Allowing AI Training on Uploaded Music

3 days ago | pitchfork.com | Walden Green

Earlier this week, an article published in the tech news outlet Futurism drew attention to a previously unidentified clause in SoundCloud’s terms of use, which allows content uploaded to the site to be used as training data for AI.
Kara-Lis Coverdale: From Where You Came

4 days ago | pitchfork.com | Sam Goldner

With Kara-Lis Coverdale, every timbre tells a story. To hear the Canadian sound artist discuss her instruments is to marvel at the way technology can channel both the cultural and the personal. The pipe organ she played growing up in church is more than just shorthand for the holy; it’s the original synthesizer, a tool for Coverdale to recreate voices both human and nonhuman, depending on which reed stop she uses.
Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s Chemistry Shines on the Grand National Tour: Live Review

4 days ago | pitchfork.com | Mano Sundaresan

Kendrick Lamar and SZA have some of the biggest songs in the world. Kendrick played the Super Bowl after icing out the other biggest rapper in the world. SZA is the co-star of a hit movie, to go with her musical success. Their joint Grand National Tour, which began on April 20, feels like the next logical step toward world domination. But stadium tours are different—like touring on God mode—and, after years of arena shows, it’s the first time they’ve each played the country’s biggest venues.