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Some Kind of Wonderful: Algernon Cadwallader on Their Reunion and New Album Members of the emo revival icons spoke with Pitchfork about their comeback album, how the genre’s landscape has changed since their 2012 breakup, and more.

"We’ve always been punk kids and always viewed Algernon as a punk band"

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Some Kind of Wonderful: Algernon Cadwallader on Their Reunion and New Album Members of the emo revival icons spoke with Pitchfork about their comeback album, how the genre’s landscape has changed since their 2012 breakup, and more.

Members of the emo revival icons spoke with @iancohen.bsky.social about their comeback album, how the genre’s landscape has changed since their 2012 breakup, and more

Algernon Cadwallader Announce Tour and First Album in 14 Years, Share Video for New Song Trying Not to Have a Thought, the influential emo band’s third LP, comes out next month on Saddle Creek

Algernon Cadwallader is back 🥲

Heatmiser: Mic City Sons (30th Anniversary) Read Jayson Greene’s review of the album.

Heatmiser's Mic City Sons (30th Anniversary) is named Best New Reissue 🏆

The Armed: THE FUTURE IS HERE AND EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE DESTROYED Read Alex Robert Ross’ review of the album.

The Armed's sixth album faces down the apocalypse with some of its heaviest music yet: visceral, vital, and filled with desperate, righteous anger

Shudder to Think: Pony Express Record Read Philip Sherburne’s review of the album.

We're revisiting one of the strangest, most exhilarating products of the post-Nevermind alternative rock boom, the 1994 record by D.C. hardcore alchemists Shudder to Think

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Robert Wilson, Boundary-Pushing Playwright and Director Who Collaborated with Philip Glass, Tom Waits, and Lady Gaga, Dies at 83 Wilson, whose work was often characterized by distinct lighting and the expansion of time, worked with art world luminaries like Laurie Anderson, Jim Jarmusch, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Allen Ginsberg, and...

Robert Wilson, the pioneering avant-garde playwright and theater director who collaborated with Philip Glass, Tom Waits, Lady Gaga, and more, has died

Miimii: “Sé Miimii” Miimii is a rising talent in the bouyon scene, one of the fastest-growing genres in the Caribbean.

Miimii's “Sé Miimii” is named Best New Track 🏆

Chappell Roan: “The Subway” Channeling Cocteau Twins and the Cranberries, Chappell Roan puts her spin on plaintive 1980s dream pop.

Chappell Roan treats an open wound with the sounds of the Cocteau Twins, the Sundays, and the Cranberries

Read our track review of "The Subway"

On My Grandmother and Her Favorite Rap Song Alphonse Pierre’s Off the Dome column covers songs, mixtapes, albums, scenes, snippets, movies, Meek Mill tweets, fashion trends—and anything else that catches his attention. This week, Alphonse remem...

"It was the only time in my life I saw her care about anything happening on a television. Sometimes, I even caught her humming the beat to herself while she fried johnnycakes on the stove"

Alphonse remembers his grandmother and her obsession with Fat Joe and Terror Squad’s biggest hit. Read more ⬇️

Cindy Lee Fully Leaves Spotify and Brings Catalog to Bandcamp: Listen A comprehensive reissue campaign will also bring every Cindy Lee album, including rarity Cat o’ Nine Tails, to vinyl

Cindy Lee has brought their entire catalog exclusively to Bandcamp, where it is now available to stream, download, and pre-order on vinyl

Wisp: If Not Winter Read Kieran Press-Reynolds’ review of the album.

A shoegaze star born on TikTok scales up her sound with a full-length debut that’s beautiful on the surface but uninterested in challenging the genre’s priors

Together Review: Love the One You’re With The body horror debut from writer-director Michael Shanks boasts delightfully gruesome practical SFX, but gets bogged down in horror cliches.

Together’s cast and special effects department alone could make for a substantive horror classic, but the script is freighted with distracting cliches and errant plot developments

Lelo: New Detroit Read Alphonse Pierre’s review of the album.

On his debut album, the Detroit rapper wrestles with his home scene’s growing influence on mainstream rap. He offers a portrait of his city that’s both loving and critical, grounded in stories that couldn’t have come from anywhere else

Brian Eno Announces Together for Palestine Benefit Concert in London Eno is executive producing “a night of music, reflection and hope” at Wembley Arena, with a lineup to be announced

Brian Eno has announced Together for Palestine, a concert at London’s Wembley Arena raising funds for families in Gaza

YoungBoy Never Broke Again: MASA Read Matthew Ritchie’s review of the album.

The Baton Rouge rapper’s first release since his legal pardon is a hyper-emotive data dump that churns through hunger, bitterness, boasts, and torment at breakneck speeds

Foo Fighters and Nine Inch Nails Swap Drummers, Switching Josh Freese for Ilan Rubin Freese, the former Nine Inch Nails drummer who replaced the late Taylor Hawkins, is back with Trent Reznor’s crew, while Rubin joins Dave Grohl and company

Rock music's great drummer reshuffle continues

How to Dig for Music Without Spotify Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius from shitpassé lameness. This week’s column...

Here are some methods for scraping good music from the data wasteland

Freddie Gibbs / The Alchemist: Alfredo 2 Read Paul A. Thompson’s review of the album.

On the followup to the pair’s 2020 collaboration, Gibbs sounds unusually animated. The album is an effective demonstration of the rapper’s formalist technique—and prickly personality

Ingénue by k.d. lang cover with 9.0 score

Revisit our Sunday Review of a landmark album: pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Homeboy Sandman / Sonnyjim: Soli Deo Gloria Read Dean Van Nguyen’s review of the album.

The Queens-born rapper is deep in his comfort zone on his latest project, sounding philosophical, charismatic, and imaginative as ever—if occasionally a little too cozy

Listen to Idles’ New Song for Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing Movie The British band recorded “Rabbit Run” and three other tracks for the new film starring Austin Butler, Bad Bunny, Zoë Kravitz, Action Bronson, and others

Idles have shared “Rabbit Run,” a new song that they made for Darren Aronofsky’s upcoming crime caper Caught Stealing

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Sleep tight, grim rite, we have 200 albums from the 2000s you can revisit here: pitchfork.com/features/lis...

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The Antlers Announce New Album Blight, Share New Song Murder ballad “Carnage” leads the indie-rock band’s first full-length in four years

The Antlers have announced their first new album in four years. Listen to the lead single

Stephen O’Malley, Oren Ambarchi, and More Help Make New Virtual Guitar Several leading avant-garde guitarists, also including David Torn and Bill Horist, collaborated with Randall Dunn to design sounds for the new “Ruins” software instrument from Slate + Ash

Sound design studio Slate + Ash has released a new virtual guitar based on sounds designed by avant-garde guitarists

Kurt Vile: Classic Love (ep) Read Stephen M. Deusner’s review of the EP.

On a new EP recorded with Nashville songwriter Luke Roberts, the guitarist picks up a bittersweet love song, revisits Constant Hitmaker, and covers Beach House

Madonna: Veronica Electronica Read Owen Myers’ review of the album.

The long-rumored collection of Ray of Light remixes was a thrilling prospect. The reality is slight and ill-considered, neither an authoritative survey nor a dynamic reinvention

Nick Cave, No Longer So Angry About AI, Shares New “Tupelo” Video Starring an AI Elvis On the Bad Seeds classic’s 40th anniversary, the director Andrew Dominik has persuaded his longtime collaborator that not all artificial intelligence is “a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human”

Nick Cave found that AI-animated photographs of Presley “had an uncanny quality, as if he had been raised from the dead, and the crucifixion-resurrection images at the end were both shocking and deeply affecting.”

Animal Collective Share New Song “Buddies on the Blackboard” The B-side to “Love on the Big Screen”

Listen to a new single from Animal Collective

Cory Hanson: I Love People Read Ryan Meehan’s review of the album.

Pairing Laurel Canyon splendor with a surreal perspective, the Wand frontman’s latest solo album offers wry portraits of the strange characters and bleak situations that populate modern life