Dear 2026: You seem pretty rad, for a year so potentially in malaise. At least, that’s the way we feel every time we turn off the news and turn on the music that takes us away from all that. The best ...

From Drake to Slayyyter to HELP!(2), our editorial staff's favorite LPs from the first half of the year. One thing you have to say about 2026 through its first six months is that it’s seen its fair ...

With Secret Love, Dry Cleaning’s compelling combination of interior monologues and art-rock backdrops reaches a zenith. In the four years since their last outing, the quartet doesn’t succumb to ...

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Please please please … may we have another year-in-music in 2025 as strong as this one? In coming up with 10 best album lists, each of Variety‘s staff music writers felt 2024 brought an embarrassment ...

Of all the genres we cover at Pitchfork, rock might be the most elusive. What qualifies it, exactly? If it rips and shreds, surely it must rock. But what if it has trap beats and AutoTune, or if it ...

Musicians both established and up-and-coming stretched themselves in fresh ways over the last year, creating poignant moments of collaboration and challenge. By Hank Shteamer In 2024, jazz continued ...

A few weeks ago, we launched the Pitchfork 2020s So Far Readers’ Poll. Thousands of readers voted on the best songs and albums of the half-decade, and here are the results. (Thanks for voting!) ...

I might be old-fashioned, but I like listening to albums. Spotify seems to always be fighting me on this. I like experiencing a collection of songs all at once, played in the order chosen by the ...

In a year with thousands of new albums, these are the 25 best rock and metal albums of 2023. What is perhaps the most encouraging about the year of new releases is that relative newcomers are emerging ...

Rock 'n' roll has had more than its fair share of high points over the years — eras in which it seemed to be one smash album after the next, striking like lightning so that the charts could hardly ...