All we know about eagerly awaited records from Lorde, LCD Soundsystem, Chromatics, Dirty Projectors, Grizzly Bear, Vampire Weekend, St. Vincent, Kelela, and more

A gallery of backstage and onstage photos from this year's festival featuring LCD Soundsystem, A$AP Rocky, Deafheaven, Bat for Lashes, Deerhunter, Courtney Barnett, Ice Cube, and more.

A review of this year's California desert extravaganza, which featured grizzled vets like LCD Soundsystem and Guns N' Roses, rising upstarts such as Vince Staples and Kamasi Washington, and surprise guests including Rihanna and Kanye West.

From Tame Impala to Frank Ocean to the Caretaker to Beach House to Kurt Vile and lots more, our picks for the best albums of the last five years. 

From Drake to Beach House to Deafheaven to Sophie to Grimes to Cloud Nothings to, yes, Kanye—our picks for the best songs of the half-decade. 

The ups and downs, triumphs and tragedies, breakups and reunions, scandals and breakthroughs of 2011.

Pitchfork's annual roundup of our favorite music photography of the past 12 months includes live shots, animated GIFs, and portraits of Radiohead, Kanye West, Girls, and LCD Soundsystem, among others.

Our contributors pick one song per year-- from Tortoise to Black Star to Animal Collective-- and write about how it fit into their lives.

We mark the end of James Murphy's band with a song-by-song account of its remarkable run.

Our year in music coverage continues with our list of the best albums of 2010.

Our coverage of the Year in Music rolls on with our list of the Top 100 Tracks of 2010.

We present our 40 favorite music videos of the year.