Chicago's Pitchfork Music Festival has grown from the tiny Intonation Festival to a 47-act, weekend-long affair. Today, the folks at P4k released the detailed lineup. We'll post our thoughts and predictions soon - and later, after we're all Pitchforked out, reviews, recaps and interviews with musicians. For now, here's the…

Jens Lekman, our favorite Swedish pop musician (sorry, members of ABBA), will release his new album on September 4. "I Know What Love Isn't" is the first full-length that the sweetest man alive has released in five long years.   "Some Dandruff On Your Shoulder" is the song title that's most  quintessentially…

Ray Bradbury, the legendary science fiction author best known for “Fahrenheit 451,” “The Illustrated Man,” and “The Martian Chronicles,” has died. He was 91. His death was first reported by the sci-fi blog i09, and later confirmed by Bradbury’s family and publisher. His exact cause of death is unknown; a statement…

  When DC Comics reset all of its titles to #1 last year as part of their "New 52 initiative," the reboot promised to make the company's sprawling 70-year history more accessible to new readers by modernizing DC’s superheroes and their origins. Superman wears jeans! Batgirl is no longer paralyzed! And, according…

Kanye West and Jay-Z's "Watch the Throne" was one of last year's most successful and deliriously fun albums. It stands as an example of what can happen when two insanely talented friends just start throwing things at the wall to see what sticks (“I’m planking on a million”) or throwing money…

As if we needed more proof that Twitter’s not just for complaining about how hungry you are on the bus, here comes Jennifer Egan with her latest project. Egan, author of “A Visit from the Goon Squad,” is releasing a story via tweets. For an hour each night for ten nights,…