Jenn Pelly

With Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You, the legendary songwriter details her hard-won path to success and tells the stories behind some of her most beloved work.

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

Last month, The New York Times ran an interview with Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner that so damningly revealed sexist and racist prejudices in his thinking that he was swiftly removed from the board of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which he co-founded in 1983. In the interview, Wenner shared his opinion that Joni Mitchell was “not a philosopher of rock’n’roll,” hence her exclusion—and that of any women musicians or artists of color—from his new book of interviews with famous white men. The…

“The riff! The riff! The riff! The riff!” At a nondescript Irish pub on Avenue A, Marnie Stern is delineating her sonic priorities. A couple hours before, we met up on the Lower East Side for a stroll past the former location of beloved indie basement-bar-bakery Cake Shop, where Stern played some of her earliest shows. Ludlow Street is so unrecognizable, though, that we have to laugh at our collective inability to even find the former Cake Shop. Among the artisan ice cream shops and vape-marts t…

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 a 2007 album that permanently altered the pop-punk landscape and marked the arrival of the ambitious and brilliant Hayley Williams.

Grief clarifies the air in Sleater-Kinney’s taut 11th album, which processes loss and societal turmoil and finds strength in chosen family.

In their seemingly telepathic interplay, the London post-rock trio eschews typical song forms in favor of a kind of collective flickering; their music tracks the process of its creation.

Read Jenn Pelly’s review of the album.

Read Jenn Pelly’s review of the album.

Read Jenn Pelly’s review of the album.