Pitchfork writers and editors recapped the year in music.
Last night, Pitchfork readers, writers, and folks from across the music industry crammed into a AdHoc’s office loft space in Chinatown for Pitchfork’s first-ever Year in Music Mixtape, a series of conversations and games about all that went down in 2024.
Deputy Director Jeremy D. Larson hosted, and Pitchfork’s head of editorial content, Mano Sundaresan, interviewed Alphonse Pierre about the year in rap, Arielle Gordon about the year in Brat, and Jael Holzman talked about her band Ekko Astral and their lauded debut album, Pink Balloons.
The panelists also played games with the audience, such as “Is It Brat?” and “Is This a Real Mixtape Title?” Alphonse awarded the winners prizes from his personal stash of rap ephemera—the best might have been a DVD of Mr. 305: The Pitbull Story. And, to close things out, Jeremy gathered all of the panelists on stage for a game inspired by “101 Things That Happened in 2024, Ranked on the Pitchfork Scale.”
Special thanks to our sponsors Monopolio, Topo Chico, Visitor, and Good Spirits, and of course to our photographer Sam Wachs who was there to capture the magic.
