When we relaunched Pitchfork earlier this year, one of the aspects of our new website that we were most excited about was the new framework’s potential for additional flexibility. We promised to continue to improve the user experience in the months ahead. We are making one such improvement today.

Since 1998, Pitchfork has published five album reviews every weekday. While this format allows for comprehensive coverage of a broad range of records across many different genres, it is a lot of material for even our most dedicated readers to fully absorb in a single day. Starting today, we have switched to a new schedule that redistributes the same number of album reviews throughout the week, while also introducing Saturdays into the mix.

This shift follows a recent change to the music industry’s release calendar: Most records now come out on Fridays rather than Tuesdays. Publishing reviews on Saturdays will allow us more timely coverage of those releases, while enabling us to highlight one additional album per week in the featured position.

We hope you enjoy this new development.