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Pitchfork's Year in News feature is a whirlwind tour through the past twelve months of our section. From Jay Reatard's death in January through the Gorillaz iPad album release on Christmas Day, 2010 was full of ups and downs, twists and turns, reunions and breakups, triumphs and disappointments, NSFW and OMG moments. There were crazy melting face masks and bodily fluids, earthquakes and volcanic ...

So the music website Pitchfork unloaded its top 500 songs from the last ten years, and it was a mix of mainstream mediocrity, desperate hipsterism, and legitimate inspiration. For every great choice they made (say, Goldfrapp), they immediately canceled it out with some horrible wrist-slitting trash (Britney, Justin, more Britney). But, rather than rag on Pitchfork (I picture their contributors looking like homelier versions of Michael Cera), which is an otherwise pretty good site despite its eas

R.I.P. Ted Kennedy (not quite related, but the man at least deserves a mention) Karen O premiered her latest stunning single “All Is Love” as part of the soundtrack for the upcoming full length motion picture “Where The Wild Things Are.” Them Crooked Vultures played two new incredibly heavy tracks. Noel Gallagher quits Oasis . The 12 greatest female guitarists . MJ’s death ruled homicide . Pitchfork’s study of mp3 history . A great list by indiescreet of lesser known ban

We kick off our look at the year's best albums with 20 also-rans that, for a variety of reasons, threaten to slip through the collective cracks. read more

From Fleet Foxes to Lil Wayne to Vampire Weekend, here's what was blaring out of tour bus stereos in 2008. read more