Stuart Berman
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Iggy Pop: Every Loser Album Review
Working with pop architect Andrew Watt, the agelessly incendiary rocker unfurls a parade of timeless archetypes: profane punk, seedy crooner, lovable curmudgeon. It’s Iggy Pop as jukebox musical. → Read More
Cheap Trick: Live at The Whisky 1977 Album Review
This four-disc set recorded just before Cheap Trick’s ascent to stardom captures the power-pop icons at their most manic and muscular, sounding more like hungry punks than arena-ready heartthrobs. → Read More
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard: Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava / Laminated Denim / Changes Album Review
The Gizzard’s abundant crop of fall albums spans custom incidental music, nerdy compositional experiments, and one of the best front-to-back records in their catalog. → Read More
The Afghan Whigs: How Do You Burn? Album Review
Greg Dulli and co. return with an eclectic, haunted set that feels untethered to their past work. They seem less interested in living up to expectations than upending them. → Read More
Kiwi Jr.: Chopper Album Review
Produced by Wolf Parade’s Dan Boeckner, the latest from the Toronto band accompanies manic, referential lyrics with neon-tinted, futurist power-pop. → Read More
Deliluh: Fault Lines Album Review
Known for its restless ambition and DIY spirit, the post-punk group evolves with unnerving ambience, spoken-word recitations, and industrial noise. → Read More
Yves Jarvis: The Zug Album Review
Made up of acoustic instrumentation and primitive electronics, the Montreal-based psych-folk auteur’s latest navigates a world of discord with wide-eyed optimism and withering wit. → Read More
The Black Keys: Dropout Boogie Album Review
Even with the help of outside songwriters and ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons, the blues-rock duo can’t help reverting to the same old same old. → Read More
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard: Omnium Gatherum Album Review
Dusting off practice-room staples and writing more new songs to go with them, the hyper-prolific Aussie rockers scrap their conceptual inclinations in favor of shredding for the sheer pleasure of it. → Read More
King Hannah: I’m Not Sorry, I Was Just Being Me Album Review
On its debut album, the UK duo spins deadpan tales about the mundanities of existence over a desolate, desert backdrop recalling PJ Harvey and Nick Cave. → Read More
Remembering Mark Lanegan With 8 Essential Tracks
The Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age singer, who passed away yesterday at age 57, was known for his corroded growl and collaborative spirit. → Read More
Sea Power: Everything Was Forever Album Review
More than two decades into its career, the band formerly known as British Sea Power sounds newly energized, eagerly plotting new routes to familiar emotional peaks. → Read More
Trupa Trupa: B Flat A Album Review
The Polish band’s latest shows that they don’t make protest music so much as process music, indulging the ugliest aspects of post-punk and post-hardcore as a means to protect what’s good and beautiful in this world. → Read More
Animal Collective: Time Skiffs Album Review
After a prolific period of experimentation, Animal Collective return with an album that achieves a peaceful equilibrium between their immersive 3D soundscaping and innate melodic charms. → Read More
Seafoam Walls: XVI Album Review
On its Thurston Moore-boosted debut, the Miami quartet offers an enchanting swirl of indie rock, dream pop, and acid-funk odysseys whose relaxed mood belies a restless philosophical spirit. → Read More
IDLES: Crawler Album Review
Exploring personal subject matter and wider musical terrain, the Bristol band’s fourth album plays like the dark origin story for how Idles became the preeminent life coaches of modern post-punk. → Read More
Feist's 'Metals' Came Out 10 Years Ago Today
There are hit songs, and then there are songs that seem to permeate every fibre of popular culture, like cigarette smoke on a denim jacket. Feist’s “1234” was such a song. The numbers don’t lie: a Top 10 single in the US, Canada, and the UK, “1234” propelled sales of the Canadian singer’s 2007 album, The Reminder, past the 2 million mark. But such metrics don’t tell the full story of the song’s… → Read More
The Gun Club: Fire of Love Album Review
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 the incendiary, hell-bent debut from the Los Angeles punk band who used blues and rockabilly to paint a depraved portrait of a young artist in their purest state. → Read More
The Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin Companion Album Review
Originally released in 1999 as a promotional CD-R, this collection of alternate mixes and non-album tracks bridges the gap between the band’s experimental hijinks and pop instincts. → Read More
Quivers: Golden Doubt Album Review
The Melbourne jangle-pop quartet hits all the right ‘80s pleasure points with an understated sense of humor and anthemic songcraft. → Read More