Starting next week, Pitchfork will celebrate the music of 1998—a pivotal year in how music was made, listened to, and spoken about. As the decade came to a close, the rise of MP3s and the internet were just around the corner as old standards like CDs, mixtapes, and major label dominance stood on their last legs. In 1998, communities of listeners were finding new ways to interact (like the ones who read Pitchfork, a webzine that got its start two years earlier), and acts like Massive Attack, Air, Neutral Milk Hotel, OutKast, and more were making their most timeless, important work.

Our retrospective will also include looks at the best videos of the year, overlooked music, and the way we listened to music then. Join us on next week as we share our thoughts on how 1998 sounds 20 years later.