pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

LOL at this - I don't think Marissa'a PR company could have licked her colon cleaner:

Hells Yeah, New Marissa Nadler Album!
Blonde Redhead, Beachwood Sparks members guest

Sub-zero temperatures, snow quietly cascading onto barren branches, and Marissa Nadler playing on the stereo; some things were just made for each other. Hopefully snow will still be falling on some parts of the world come March 3, as that's when Ms. Nadler's due to drop her fourth full-length, Little Hells.

The follow-up to 2007 breakthrough Songs III: Bird on the Water and likely little bit o' heaven, Little Hells collects 10 new tracks and features production from Chris Coady (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV on the Radio, !!!) and contributions from Blonde Redhead's Simone Pace, Beachwood Sparks' "Farmer" Dave Scher, and Black Hole Infinity's Myles Baer. Kemado will have the pleasure of releasing it.

And just in time for this chilly season, relatively new Kemado offshoot Mexican Summer (named after a Marissa Nadler jam, no less) issued Marissa's debut album, Ballads of Living and Dying, on vinyl this week. Swap out "stereo" for "creaky turntable" in the scenario above, and you really have some things that were made for each other.

In other Marissa rumblings, the lady has a new original track due on a forthcoming compilation to benefit the Save Darfur campaign and the World Food Programme, and a cover of Judee Sill's "The Kiss" is set to appear on another upcoming comp. Nadler notes that the Sill cover will be credited to Marissa Nadler & Black Hole Infinity and marks her first "attempt at electronic drum beats." Nice.

I can't wait until this album comes out so I can forget all about killing myself.

Also LOL at 'attempt at electronic drum beats' garnering a 'nice' from Pitchfork - if Rivers Cuomo or Ryan Adams said that shit they'd open up a can of nerd whoop-ass to beat the (Beta) band.

Oh, hilarious, increasingly ridiculous Pitchfork.

tbf, given the way they used to gather their news, Marissa Nadler probably wrote that item.

Oh, hilarious, increasingly ridiculous Pitchfork

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For those of you nostalgic for odd tangents in a review lede, I recommend checking out today's Cat Power review. The critic's sister just had a baby!

That's not at all irrelevant to the review, though.

dude it was a pretty lame review

is it really that hard to just write "this Cat Power record, like all Cat Power records, was boring"

no, but they won't pay you for a review less than 20 words long unless there's an accompanying dog or monkey-related visual.

what about a picture of chan marshall's bush

or a lolcat power

"I can haz cumpleet silenz wile I restarts song fiev times?"

That "Blind" song they named song of the year is a piece of shit.

blind is awesome imo

HOMOPHOBE!!!

haha. anyone who hates hercules and love affair= homophobe. i think we established that over on the NME best of poll.

yeah I saw them on Sunday and all of a sudden regret not hanging out in the VIP all day in case Nomi came out for a cocktail

though Erlend Oye did come out and dance with me during H&LA

Three years passed between the Austrian electronicist's landmark Endless Summer and 2004's relatively underwhelming Venice.

Nuh Uh.

Venice was pretty good.

I'd say it's roughly on the same level as Endless Summer. Granted Endless Summer came out 3 years earlier.

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/download/148213-pitchforktv-usa-for-affluence-ft-tim-harrington-moby-andrew-wk-will-sheff-fred-armisen-carl-newman-and-many-more-beardo-episode-5-cash-for-christmas-video-mp3

I had the misfortune of watching this. It doesn't work as a song. It doesn't work as an ironic anti-song. The level of wealth, complacency and self-satisfaction evident in that video is not as far from what you would get if you put a random selection of Chase employees in a room (a few wealthy ones like Moby, a few middle-management types like the relatively successful of that bunch, and a few mailroom types like the "struggling" of the musicians) as what the people in the video would have you believe. I think the movie The Distinguished Gentleman has a deeper political critique than this song. And that movie was actually funny.

NB I haven't eaten in the last 48 hours.

Ugh,that was excruciating. I've seen a lot of funny stuff about the recession and this is not it. Although, it probably is the best song Excepter's ever made.

^that didn't need a comma.

Someone explain this sentence pls:

One of the most dynamic singers ever to put his stamp on the pop charts, Redding consistently emphasized song over performance, which means each take is singular and unrepeatable.

Tried. Only way I could decode it was if the writer was making an error. If he emphasized performance over song, then each take would be singular and unrepeatable. If he emphasized song over performance, though, presumably each take would be exactly alike because he'd be executing the same platonic ideal of a song (and not paying attention to the particular moment/performance the song was occurring in). Of course, assuming it's not a mistake... it makes no sense.

Each take is always singular and unrepeatable no matter what. (A repetition is obviously a new take.) So the consequent of the proposition

(consistently emphasized song over performance) => (each take is singular and unrepeatable)

is true, and the basic theory of logic tells us that the entire proposition is then true whether the antecedent is true or not. QED.

gotta ask what the point of this is http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/download/149449-video-gucci-mane-stoopid

granted im kind of protective of gucci and concerned w/ how he is portrayed on the internet but it's the first time pfork has ever mentioned the dude and we get some condescending nonsense like

"Bolstered by snare taps and synth stabs, Mane declares the stoopid-ity of his chain. Then he runs for mayor, repping East Atlanta. "I'm not very articulate," Mane says"

what is this ''adding to the conversation''? the post is written like pfork readers have an intimate working knowledge of gucci's music, and by not explaining at all why anyone should care about gucci or what makes him great all this serves is to get pfork readers to laugh at this "dumb" rapper. well, i guess it says gucci's not stupid. that's something!!

gucci mane is stoopid (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

complaining about pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

Drake sold you ringtone boys out.

i know right

autojudas

anyway stephen it's not dumb to complain about pfork, nor do i think it's dumb to demand that if they are going to cover things that they don't 'need' to cover that they do it well and not condescendingly or lazily

i wish there was a way of subscribing to the finney/ewing pfork pieces but NONE OF THE REST OF IT* - as it is i just end up missing their stuff b/c i refuse to take the chance of accidentally encountering bullsh like that :(

*dunno who else is writing for it these days. deej is, you say? ok his too

it would be nice to have author-specific rss feeds or something

it would be nice if their search function was as decent as it used to be

it would be nice if most of their authors were as good writers as tim and tom and david q. drake esq

"authors"

critics

i dont know how the forkcast blog works but there are actual rap writers working for the site who could've written this. if marc hogan proposed this i wonder why nothing was said about the song beyond that it has synths and drums and isn't a stupid song

it would be nice if their search function was as decent as it used to be

― go to club ban with me pls (some dude), Tuesday, March 3, 2009 1:09 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^this

i dont know how the forkcast blog works but there are actual rap writers working for the site who could've written this. if marc hogan proposed this i wonder why nothing was said about the song beyond that it has synths and drums and isn't a stupid song

― Funky House, M.D. (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, March 3, 2009 6:10 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

dude it's a little blurb the accompany the video... i wouldnt get so worked up

granted im kind of protective of gucci and concerned w/ how he is portrayed on the internet

jordan have you heard 'shopaholic'? i love it so much

i suspect that you : gucci :: me : nicki minaj though

haha yeah - and "shopaholic" is great

kudos to nicki for the benzezez/yenzezez/lenzezez/sensitive/tentative rhymes (though possibly someone should...tell her that china isn't where they have yen) on that, also bobby v's plaintive vox even as he hands over his credit card

it would be nice if I could load their site without overloading my laptop's puny cpu

granted im kind of protective of gucci and concerned w/ how he is portrayed on the internet

― Funky House, M.D. (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, March 3, 2009 6:15 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

is he your baby brother or something?

twin, actually