The Glasgow-based guitarist and multi-instrumentalist talks about downloads, library science, John Peel, Gregorian chants, and a music career that isn't really a career.
British psych-jazz legend on working with Brian Eno and Paul Weller, the long journey from Dionne Warwick to Johnny Cash, and how he considers himself a "sit-down comedian."
The second and final installment of Pitchfork's The Year in News hearkens back to that hazy, distant latter half of 2006.
We pay tribute to the troubled, enigmatic Pink Floyd co-founder and songwriter.
1. "Top Billin'", Audio Two
It is simply a beat and a voice, but it is an absolutely brilliant track ...
In our fourth annual Found Sound, Pitchfork writers select their favorite offbeat and/or underappreciated non-2004 discoveries of 2004-- everything from proto-freakfolk to Turkish pop to a German shepherd named Sebastian.
Considering the number of artists who cling desperately to musical and lyrical convention, the likelihood of a newly released record ...