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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 2d

Taylor Swift’s never been bigger—and her music’s never been less compelling

Taylor Swift: The Life of a Showgirl

Read Anna Gaca’s review of the album.

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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 5d

The standout track from The Life of a Showgirl is Swift’s most straightforward appraisal of her own power

Read our track review of “Father Figure”

Taylor Swift: “Father Figure”

Read Shaad D’Souza’s review of the track

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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 5d

Taylor Swift’s “Actually Romantic” is actually embarrassing.

Read our track review ⬇️

Taylor Swift: “Actually Romantic”

Read Walden Green’s review of the track

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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 5d

Read our 5 takeaways from Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl

5 Takeaways From Taylor Swift’s New Album The Life of a Showgirl

The 12th entry into the all-consuming Taylor Swift musical reality show cuts right to the chase: She’s head-over-heels in love, and she has some scores to settle.

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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 7d

It is a sweet time to be Oklou. Pitchfork caught up with her on one of the hottest days of the summer to sip neon citronnade, talk about her debut album and its upcoming deluxe edition, and bask in the softness of new motherhood

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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 8d

Presenting the 100 best rap albums of all time

The 100 Best Rap Albums of All Time

We rank the most essential and influential albums of this quintessentially American art form.

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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · Aug 11

No Joy's Bugland is named Best New Music 🏆

No Joy: Bugland

Read Sadie Sartini Garner’s review of the album.

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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · Aug 10

The Sunday Review ☀️ Toni Braxton's Secrets

Today, we revisit the R&B diva’s 1996 album, a blend of grown-up pop and sultry quiet storm that reconciled Braxton’s soul roots with a sexier, more youthful edge

Toni Braxton: Secrets

Read Clover Hope’s review of the album.

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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · Aug 10

The members of U2—Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr.—have each shared their own individual statements on Israel’s ongoing starvation of the Gaza Strip

U2 Release Statements on Israel and Gaza

We want our audience to know where we each stand,” Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr. wrote before sharing individual statements

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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · Aug 7

The kind of music you make when the future is uncertain and you want to keep the end at bay for as long as you can

The Black Keys: No Rain, No Flowers

Read Stephen Thomas Erlewine’s review of the album.

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Over at @pitchfork.com, I review No Rain, No Flowers, the album where the Black Keys recover from a tumultuous year by steering toward the middle of the road. pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

The Black Keys: No Rain, No Flowers

Read Stephen Thomas Erlewine’s review of the album.

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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · Aug 7

Perhaps the most interesting frictions in the Ethel Cain universe play out in the relationships between the character, her author, and their shared audience

Ethel Cain: Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You

Read Olivia Horn’s review of the album.

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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · Aug 6

Revisit our Sunday Review of a Perfect 10 international breakthrough

King Sunny Adé: Juju Music

Read Will Hermes’ review of the album.

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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · Aug 6

Here are 20 picks for Song of the Summer

20 Contenders for the 2025 Song of the Summer

Not sure if there’s really a Song of the Summer? Take a look at our favorites of the season, including “Whim Whamiee,” bops by Sabrina Carpenter and PinkPantheress, some egg-punk, and more.

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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · Aug 6

Sony Music Entertainment is suing Rhapsody International, the parent company of streaming service Napster

Sony Music Sues Napster Over Missed Royalty Payments

The company is claiming $9.2 million in unpaid royalties and a potential $36 million in damages from copyright infringement.

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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · Aug 6

It’s Never Over has no interest in painting Jeff Buckley as a doomed, tragic figure, but as an artist who somehow foresaw his brief life—and devoured the world, while he could

It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley Review: The Man, Not the Myth

With her new documentary, director and producer Amy Berg presents the late Jeff Buckley as a bottomless vessel for creativity—and rejects the idea that he was fated for a tragic end.

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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · Aug 6

Topshelf (@topshelfrecords.com) has launched a donation initiative to help aid efforts in Gaza

Topshelf Records Launches Donation Initiative for Aid in Gaza

The label behind Ratboys, Ekko Astral, and more will match donations to the Sameer Project for the next 10 months

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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · Aug 6

xaviersobased refines his singularly unrefined style on a short, slaphappy new EP featuring a standout song with OsamaSon

Xaviersobased: once more EP

Read Olivier Lafontant’s review of the EP.

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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · Aug 6

A talent-stacked double mixtape that’s like a crystallized memory of the club in the mid-2010s

Metro Boomin: Metro Boomin Presents: A Futuristic Summa (Hosted by DJ Spinz)

Read Matthew Ritchie’s review of the album.

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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · Aug 5

“Comafields” is one of the most affecting tracks he’s given us in a while—ambient trance as a weighted blanket for the soul

Our track review

Burial: “Comafields”

The producer re-emerges with a 12-minute mini-suite suggestive of revelation or near-death experience.

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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · Aug 5

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

Read more from our interview here ⬇️

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.

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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · Aug 5

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

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.

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