In 2024, indie animation proved its power on YouTube, captivating viewers with its limitless creativity. Projects like The ...

Beth Gibbons, the perpetually forlorn voice of Portishead, returned with a gorgeously melancholy album reflecting on time, ...

This year, it felt like a page turned, the skies parted, the windows were flung open wide: Mainstream pop, a field dominated ...

One major theme that runs through Pitchfork’s best albums of 2024 is disbelief. There are pop albums that defy all expectations, indie rock records that shouldn’t work but do, rap tapes that are made ...

Exit is an enigma. They’re not in the limelight—even by indie standards—but their résumé suggests otherwise. Comprised of ...

“First Reformed” fans flocked to the sold-out denim hat featured in Paul Schrader's 2017 film about a pastor's descent into ...

For young queer pop fans, this year was a dream come true. For artists like Chappell Roan, Muna, and Reneé Rapp, it was more ...

pop, or folk. In a sense, it says as much about the people that are drawn to it as it does about the people that make it. While we’re at it, sign up for our newsletter to get the best new indie ...

Lu Feiyan & Wang Yi - also known as Florian and Enuat of the evocative indie rockers Shanghai Qiutian continue their monthly ...