Jenn Pelly

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 turned a master songwriter into a music legend.

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 the most consequential careers in pop history.

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

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

Reissues of the L.A. band’s mid-’90s albums capture how they brought girl-group yearning, three-part harmonies, and virtuoso violin lines to the era of Sassy mag and 120 Minutes.

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

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

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

A fixture of New York’s art and experimental music communities, Taja Cheek envisions a decidedly uncategorizable world of sound as L’Rain.

The outspoken Australian trio on moving towards hope, embracing Taylor Swift, and the twangy vulnerability of new album Running With the Hurricane.

The New Yorker writer talks about how breaking down the binaries of cool, Nirvana’s radical legacy, and Beach Boys’ heavenly harmonies informed his poignant new book.

Read Jenn Pelly’s review of the album.

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

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.