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For today's Sunday Review, we're looking back at Billy Idol's first band, a combustible 1978 record with a punk sound and pop politics pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…

On SOUR, Olivia Rodrigo shows there’s a certain magic to be found in embracing your own mess pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…

Music for when you're seven Negronis deep, listening to Édith Piaf, and indulging in a piece of chocolate cake pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…

Still the best White Stripes album See where White Blood Cells falls on our list of the top 200 albums of the 2000s: pitchfork.visitlink.me/VXstG6

“Fables of Faubus” took aim America’s legacy of oppression and set the stage for political jazz as a cultural force in the 1960s pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks…

Taking over aux on the Artemis II pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…

A behemoth, a leviathan, a statement of purpose worthy of the late-career self-titling gamble pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…

Last weekend, Pitchfork swung down to Knoxville for @BigEarsFestival, where bluesman Bloodshot Bill shared with us a Perfect 10 that gets him in the mood to shoot some pool

When Arthur Russell died in 1992, he left behind a vast archive of unreleased music. On the 34th anniversary of the groundbreaking artist's passing, revisit our interview with the archivist who has made rescuing Russell’s songs his life’s work pitchfork.com/thepitch/arthu…

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This 1959 Charles Mingus song forecasted the future of music pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks…

Sunn O)))'s new album feels like their biggest and most forbidding work yet pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…

For today's Saturday Track, we're looking at a post-bop Civil Rights anthem pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks…

The drone-metal titans explore the minutiae of microtonal vibrations on an album that sprawls like land art pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…

Moshpit rap, with MCs you can tell apart by their textures pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…

ARIRANG’s messages repeatedly ring hollow, like birthday emails from a mega corporation pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…

There's something irresistible about a bearded dude from small-town Wisconsin retreating, heartbroken, to a cabin to write some songs pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…

An album that more than merits the singer the same consideration as Addison Rae, Zara Larsson, and PinkPantheress pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…

U2’s daring 1993 album is a staggeringly weird and strangely intimate political pop experience pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…

James Gadson, whose work behind the drum kit can be heard on hit records by Bill Withers, Diana Ross, and the Jackson 5, has died pitchfork.com/news/james-gad…