location: Chicago

Chillwave connoisseur Chaz Bundick aka Toro Y Moi talks to Pitchfork TV behind the scenes of the Pitchfork Music Festival about the pros and cons of his quick rise to the top.

Playing off the overused and cheesy adage, “Dance like no-one’s watching,” Tavi Gevinson’s guest post for Portable celebrates the moments in television and film when her favorite heroines take that advice and partake in solitary “freedom dances”.

From Beyonce to Bob Dylan and back (via Neil Young and Feist), we offer you a brief guide to the art of the Jeff Tweedy cover song and collaborative process.

…so spoke my boyfriend, a 15-year veteran of The Scene That Celebrated Itself. While shoegaze is still very much a dead independent genre, there is a small scene alive today, comprised mostly of nerds in striped t-shirts and shaggy haircuts who will never lose that feeling.

How To Say I Love You With Video is a fictional, comedic short documentary of a bumbling filmmaker named Jack Lawrence Mayer who tries to make the perfect video to win back his ex-girlfriend.

Chicago chamber pop sextet Canasta feel the pain of breaking up in their new video Mexico City from their third album, The Fakeout, the Tease and the Breather.

With an onstage career whose length hasn’t even spanned a decade, Kanye West has well and truly made his mark on the music world. While his solo work still leaves many rap artists for dead, it’s really his collaborative work with other musical renegades that sets him apart.

After discussing all things Australian with Portable’s Emma Meres at Pitchfork Music Festival last month, four-piece Wild Nothing set up a makeshift performance space on the sidewalk of a quiet, Chicago street to shoot this live version of their track Our Composition Book with Yours Tru.ly’s video team.

So what was it that we really loved about Pitchfork Music Festival? Sure, TV on the Radio pleased the Sunday night crowd as the festival’s closing act, and Ariel Pink‘s…

With the festival season well and truly underway in the northern hemisphere, we sent our New York based (Australian bred) reporter Emma Meres to Chicago to the Pitchfork Music Festival.…