Morrissey couldn’t be that serious when he sang, “Burn down the disco, hang the DJ…” in The Smiths’ 1986 hit single “Panic” — though, apparently, it was “because the music that they constantly play / ...
When I joined Pitchfork a couple months ago as its new editor, we got to work on what you’re reading now, the Best Songs of the 2020s So Far, our first big list of the year. On the surface ...