Ryan Dombal

Body Talk Pt. 2 out September 6.

If the [so-wrong-it’s-right video](http://pitchfork.com/news/39694-video-grinderman-heathen-child-nsfw-and-totally-bonkers/) for [Grinderman](http://pitchfork.com/artists/5203-grinderman/)’s [ “Heathen Child”](http://pitchfork.com/news/39694-video-grinderman-heathen-child-nsfw-and-totally-bonkers/) wasn’t insane enough for you, you probably have serious issues. But maybe those issues can be cured by a remix of the tune called “Super Heathen Child”, which features a two-minute guitar solo from ar…

Dirty Beaches mastermind Alex Zhang Hungtai was born in Taiwan, but he doesn’t have a home. Moving from place to place throughout his life due to a fractured family, the 30-year-old singer-songwriter sometimes felt adrift. In a recent phone interview, he described a stint selling real estate in China during his mid-twenties as “a weird displacement upon displacement.” And that same feeling can be ascribed to his music, which layers coats of lo-fi grime over tracks that sound like relics from the…

*Photo by Jamie-James Medina* [The xx](http://pitchfork.com/artists/28060-the-xx/) don’t do loud. They whisper. They turn down. They make you come to them. They don’t do loud *places*, either; the last time I saw them at a big venue—Manhattan concrete thunderdome Terminal 5—their minimalism was swallowed up by chattering barflies trying to channel wallflower sensuality into a Tuesday night hookup. I left early.-=-=-=- On “Loud Places”, xx frontwoman Romy Madley-Croft is once again singing soft…

Nicolás Jaar: "The Three Sides of Audrey and Why She’s All Alone Now" Track Review - Pitchfork

Ethiopian artist Mikael Seifu makes hypnotic electronic music that merges the traditional sounds of his native country with skittering modern rhythms and production—creating a new homegrown sonic lineage in the process. By Ryan Dombal.

The 51-year-old rock realist talks about the songs, albums, and artists that have meant the most to him throughout his life—including Missy Elliott, Minutemen, and Amy Winehouse—five years at a time.

Including radical art movements, Joan Didion, an old friend’s wedding, Mick Jagger, memes, and more

The lead single from the Asheville singer-songwriter’s upcoming album, All of This Will End, hits like a flaming missile to the heart.

At this point, the list of unfuckwithable artists Blake Mills has played guitar with or produced is just absurd. At the very top has to be Bob Dylan, who enlisted Mills to work on what could be the best album ever by a hall-of-famer pushing 80, 2020’s Rough and Rowdy Ways. Mills has also been a fixture onstage during Joni Mitchell’s recent live gigs, backing up the legend as she continues her triumphant comeback following a brain aneurysm eight years ago. Along with such boomer bona fides, the 3…