In 2011, I made up a rubric for assessing the output of musical artists. I called it The Five-Albums Test. Well, I didn’t exactly “make it up.” I took something that music fans were already doing ...

9:09 a.m. Oct. 9, 2024: An earlier version of this article referred incorrectly to Chris Baio as Vampire Weekend’s drummer. The band’s drummer is Chris Tomson. The members of Vampire Weekend are very ...

Whether you need music to push you through the door into fair spring weather, or you're the type to stay indoors as long as you can spinning a new soundtrack, this season is waiting for you. Spring ...

The first quarter of the year is a wrap, we just posted a list of 55 albums we’re anticipating this spring, and today we review some of those albums, plus a whole lot of other ones. With 13 reviews in ...

We preview some of the prospective albums by major artists who are due to release a new record in 2018. Charlie Puth looks set to dominate again Charlie Puth American songwriter and performer Charlie ...

With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming ...

Happy Birthday to Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig, who turned the big 4-0 on April 8, 2024. Koenig co-founded the band in 2006 while he and the group’s three other original members were attending ...

I was first introduced to the band Vampire Weekend through the song “Step,” off the band’s third album, in which the band’s frontman Ezra Koenig’s airy voice effortlessly riffs on a modern love story ...

We preview some of the prospective albums by major artists who are due to release a new record in 2018. American songwriter and performer Charlie Puth was one of the breakthrough sensations of 2016, ...