Amid Vedic chants that slowly build, creating a meditative atmosphere, a beat pulses beneath the sacred verses. Then the ...

Today:Early fog in the far southwest clears quickly. Most areas stay dry with sunshine and variable cloud, though northern and northeastern regions may see isolated showers. Light winds overall, ...

Year-end season is normally all about positivity—publications pick their favorite albums and songs from the previous 12 months, and then we all argue over placements and omissions. “Where’s __?” is an ...

The best albums of 2025 spanned seismic rage rap, intricate guitar music, protest folk, spacey dream pop, and laptop twee. A virtuoso of experimental electronic music re-emerged, a Brooklyn band ...

The dancefloor's 100 most essential tracks. The term “dance music” may conjure visions of heaving clubs, packed festival tents and partying with abandon, and certainly these concepts are a substantial ...

When I joined Pitchfork a couple months ago as its new editor, we got to work on what you’re reading now, the Best Songs of the 2020s So Far, our first big list of the year. On the surface, there’s ...

For many of us, few bands from the last 30 years have assembled a more consistent catalog than Spoon. The Austin heroes, who first broke ground with Telephono in 1996, have doubled down on their ...

Recording a track with vocals is a bold choice to make for a game. Videogame songs inevitably become synonymous with the game itself, a marker of tone and, at times, a signifier of its cultural impact ...

The grainy video, shot in the Eighties, captures the younger years of rising RTE star Gerry Ryan. In what can now only be viewed through the lens of tragic irony, the star can be seeing rapping ...