#old #stevereich #basho
― tylerw, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 15:05 (seven years ago) link
i figured it was under the pitch section, but the pitch section is nowhere to be found on the page. if you cmd+f "the pitch", the only hit is the link at the bottom of the page for the pitchfork review.
the pitch seems to be a subsection of the latest so it's two pages away when i feel like it used to be a main front page thing. no wonder i couldn't find it.
also i searched for "archive" and "archive.org" initially figuring it would search the body text. also search "elliott smith" seeing as i knew that was one of the concerts highlighted, so figured it would probably be tagged. is their search shit then too?
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 15:10 (seven years ago) link
Actually "elliott smith" is an artist in this story but not a tag, which are only "bootleg" and "Invisible Hits", I guess that's a further subcategory within The Pitch within The Latest within Pitchfork. Obviously.
I think Pitchfork is probably churning out too much and too varied formats to be very well organised yet, and probably are way less concerned with their archive than their front page. A pity though.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 15:14 (seven years ago) link
I think Pitchfork is probably churning out too much and too varied formats to be very well organised yet
Everything is driven by social media these days, so their lack of "organization" is, in fact, a good organizing principle for having a successful, well-trafficked website
― queen elseq of ærendelle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 15:31 (seven years ago) link
whiney o.t.m. weingarten
― maura, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 15:48 (seven years ago) link
their lack of "organization" is, in fact, a good organizing principle for having a successful, well-trafficked website
I'm not sure I get what you mean?
Either way, I think I should probably have said "well archived" rather than "well organized".
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Thursday, 23 June 2016 05:42 (seven years ago) link
Secret Pitchfork Features, Use These Seven Tricks to Find Them!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 23 June 2016 13:53 (seven years ago) link
Do you idiots not use google
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 23 June 2016 16:29 (seven years ago) link
fuck google
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 23 June 2016 16:34 (seven years ago) link
South London musician Benjy Keating is signed to the acclaimed independent dancehall label Mixpak, where he makes a strange and subdued DIY bedroom-pop version of dancehall.
― de l'asshole (flopson), Tuesday, 21 June 2016 01:20 Bookmark
i still dunno why lucas dipasquale isnt signed to ovo. actually too real i guess
― r|t|c, Thursday, 23 June 2016 16:37 (seven years ago) link
If I'm on a site that has a search function I don't expect to have to use google to find something on said site, no.
― Position Position, Thursday, 23 June 2016 17:09 (seven years ago) link
I would say that searching for something on a specific site using google works better than using a site's search function approximately 99% of the time
― silverfish, Thursday, 23 June 2016 20:22 (seven years ago) link
it's true
― maura, Thursday, 23 June 2016 21:01 (seven years ago) link
for instance site:ilxor.com pitchfork
this is basic digital literacy, or should be
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Thursday, 23 June 2016 21:12 (seven years ago) link
That's dumb. The workaround should never be the solution.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 23 June 2016 21:13 (seven years ago) link
as CCR taught us: keep on googlin'
― tylerw, Thursday, 23 June 2016 21:15 (seven years ago) link
yeah site: is an ill way of searching for stuff on the internet 2 thumbs up
― Steve Gunn Mann-Dude (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 23 June 2016 21:25 (seven years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, June 23, 2016 5:13 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol
― de l'asshole (flopson), Thursday, 23 June 2016 21:26 (seven years ago) link
every site should have an in-house search engine as good as the best search engine in the world
― de l'asshole (flopson), Thursday, 23 June 2016 21:27 (seven years ago) link
or they could just label their posts
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Friday, 24 June 2016 06:36 (seven years ago) link
https://media.giphy.com/media/NbHxEgD4H6jZK/giphy.gif
― queen elseq of ærendelle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 24 June 2016 15:14 (seven years ago) link
Shit's gettin mad boolean up in here
― Steve Gunn Mann-Dude (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 24 June 2016 15:20 (seven years ago) link
Showing 0 results for “"More like Pitchdork, amirite?"”
― scott seward, Friday, 24 June 2016 15:30 (seven years ago) link
http://giving.yale.edu/sites/default/files/imce/BoolaTakesManhattanSmall.JPG
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Friday, 24 June 2016 15:31 (seven years ago) link
bickin' back, bein boolean
― de l'asshole (flopson), Friday, 24 June 2016 15:48 (seven years ago) link
every site should have an in-house search engine as good as the best search engine in the world― de l'asshole (flopson), Thursday, June 23, 2016 5:27 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― de l'asshole (flopson), Thursday, June 23, 2016 5:27 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yes, they should. You can add a google search box to a website. There is no reason to have a crappy search function.
― Position Position, Friday, 24 June 2016 15:52 (seven years ago) link
Bad search is v retro and #vaporwave digging the aesthetics
― Steve Gunn Mann-Dude (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 24 June 2016 21:45 (seven years ago) link
They've got videos set on autoplay, and since the news loads in a constant stream, as you scroll down the news page, it starts every single video until they're all playing on top of each other. very "altered zones"
― Immediate Follower (NA), Monday, 27 June 2016 14:13 (seven years ago) link
i think those are bet's embed settings but idk
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Monday, 27 June 2016 14:20 (seven years ago) link
I think you're right.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Monday, 27 June 2016 14:40 (seven years ago) link
took 2 bylined reporters to team up for this investigative piece
http://pitchfork.com/news/66462-metallica-star-in-hilarious-luxury-menswear-campaign/
― Steve Gunn Mann-Dude (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 29 June 2016 16:01 (seven years ago) link
damn, that truly is... hilarious
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Wednesday, 29 June 2016 16:10 (seven years ago) link
they look fine. man, that bass player has the face of ages. like an ancient rock or tree or something.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 16:18 (seven years ago) link
he produced & funded that new jaco pastorius doc that's on netflix, seems like a nice guy
― Steve Gunn Mann-Dude (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 29 June 2016 16:23 (seven years ago) link
i've seen plenty of hilarious luxury menswear campaigns in my time and that was the most hilarious-est
― tylerw, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 16:25 (seven years ago) link
Apparently, they've been doing "classic" album reviews on Sundays. While I'm not opposed to the albums they've covered thus far, I still find the idea of "in retrospect" commentary from a source as notoriously fickle as Pitchfork to be an extremely slippery slope.
http://pitchfork.com/news/66495-pitchforks-next-sunday-review-pulps-different-class/
And the "announcement" of the upcoming review among the site's own news feed strikes me as being in bad taste.
― Austin, Friday, 1 July 2016 02:43 (seven years ago) link
a slope to what?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 1 July 2016 02:44 (seven years ago) link
idk but it sure is slippery
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 1 July 2016 03:19 (seven years ago) link
Last couple of weeks: '12 staffers pick an old song they discovered', '8 staffers share their favourite concerts', '17 staffers name their fav summer song'. Arbitrarily numbered listicles are lame, they sure as hell got told to do more listicles.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 1 July 2016 07:03 (seven years ago) link
I do miss the regular features they used to run. No room for those in Buzzfork, I guess.
― Position Position, Friday, 1 July 2016 12:59 (seven years ago) link
I mean, every venue is gonna have to balance out this type of shit with more substantive stuff, everyone has to do it. You see MTV News which is trying to do good stuff find that balance, you see even formerly "prestige" outlets like the Atlantic and Salon do it...Forbes that's basically all they do. You literally HAVE to because that's the type of shit that gets shared that's the type of stuff that gets a lot of comments, traction on Facebook etc. It's pretty easy to be haughty about it like omg every site should be the Quietus and do 2000 word interviews dude from the Associates or oral histories of the African desert blues tape trading scene of the 1980s but people click on this stuff.
so the good venues are gonna try to do the stuff that pays the bills, do the stuff they care about and then hope that at least some of the good work goes "viral"
― Steve Gunn Mann-Dude (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 1 July 2016 14:07 (seven years ago) link
and also think about what you SAY you actually read on the internet and what you ACTUALLY read vs what you see a title of on Twitter that looks good and has been retweeted by someone you know so you just retweet it cuz you get the gist of it from the title and don't even read it
― Steve Gunn Mann-Dude (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 1 July 2016 14:10 (seven years ago) link
"It's pretty easy to be haughty about it like omg every site should be the Quietus and do 2000 word interviews dude from the Associates or oral histories of the African desert blues tape trading scene of the 1980s but people click on this stuff."
You could simply give these kinds things clickbaity titles! I wonder if that would work.
― Evan, Friday, 1 July 2016 14:23 (seven years ago) link
These 11 Oral Histories of the African Desert Blues Tape Trading Scene of the 1980s Will Absolutely Destroy You, and Here's Why
― marcos, Friday, 1 July 2016 14:27 (seven years ago) link
kind of think that's what Dangerous Minds does -- clickbait for the captain beefheart crowd.
― tylerw, Friday, 1 July 2016 14:29 (seven years ago) link
haha that's the best description of dangerous minds
― Steve Gunn Mann-Dude (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 1 July 2016 14:44 (seven years ago) link
and also think about what you SAY you actually read on the internet and what you ACTUALLY read vs what you see a title of on Twitter that looks good and has been retweeted by someone you know so you just retweet it cuz you get the gist of it from the title and don't even read it― Steve Gunn Mann-Dude (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, July 1, 2016 10:10 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Steve Gunn Mann-Dude (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, July 1, 2016 10:10 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I'm not on Twitter.
― Position Position, Friday, 1 July 2016 19:02 (seven years ago) link
ok
― Steve Gunn Mann-Dude (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 1 July 2016 19:12 (seven years ago) link
my larger point is that when you're on the other side and looking at hits and traffic and clickthrough and all that the numbers tell a different story than what ppl say
also listicles with the right editorial shape and direction can be awesome, see most of rs's listicles from the past two years
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 1 July 2016 20:28 (seven years ago) link