pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

it was so nice to have kevin $hields back, i welcomed him

ahaha

lol

“I Love My Dad” finds Kozelek possibly outing himself as a recovering alcoholic (“I’ll have an O’Doul’s and my friend here will have a Guinness”) and a victim of child abuse, but it's otherwise quotably hilarious, detailing a relationship with his father where valuable life lessons are imparted through both Iron Mike-style beatdowns and Edgar Winter records.

If this wasn't glib enough, there's also a YouTube link to the Tyson/Spain fight underneath "Iron Mike-style beatdowns" in case you felt like investigating Kozelek's abuse metaphor further.

skot otm

a solo strikes down out [of] nowhere like a cartoon lightning bolt

but nothing here feels as unhinged as the borealis chaos of at the end of "Northern Lights"

you missed the craziest part of the review which was the microwaved banana metaphor

i kind of liked that

"this album is an epic of of modest proportions"

who needs editors?

Of Modest is the name of my dog

see i can imagine what an "epic of of modest proportions" might be. sort of like chamber music.

can't wait for the next minor copyediting error to appear on the website so you can bump this thread again. it really is an endless giddy thrill

oh wait "of of" is the complaint? wow.

RIP journalism

"this album is an epic of of montreal proportions"

that wasn't the only minor copywriting error today, either, just the most adorable

"an epic of modest proportions"

less like the Siege of Troy than the Assault on Precinct 13

this album is an epic of modest mouse proportions

this daily spot-the-typo game is a nice warm-up to the ny times crossword puzzle. thanks pitchfork!

"and an example [of] what makes Elbow, at its least potent, so subtly unsubtle."

That's a horribly written review from start to finish

"an effortlessly leaden exhibition of glum triumphalism"

Why are you up so early

got excellent news yesterday afternoon and was too wired to sleep

Congratulations on being appointed as P4k's new copy editor :)

you missed the best one: "a discrete if uninentional reimagining of Blur’s 'Tender'"

that's a beauty!

if i copy-edited for them 龜 there'd never ever ever be a single mistake ever, i'm sure

I have no idea how this Jas0n HeIIer guy gets work. He is consistently terrible.

read other things by heller that seem okay. help your bros edit, pfork. you can do it

http://pitchfork.com/news/54930-pitchfork-launches-nightcap-series/

This June, Pitchfork is launching Nightcap, a series of late night shows across the United States.

It starts at 10 PM. Get it? It's a show, but it starts kinda late!! Isn't that really interesting??

don't they know about noise ordinances!

that's not even that late for a show

oohhh things are gonna get a little blue at that hour i bet

More like night crap.

I am seriously confused by this entire thing since a) as CAD said that is really not that late for a show b) what is the appeal of having a show start kind of late?

"starts at 10pm" means the headliner goes on at 1 am in my experience so that's pretty late
appeal to the venue would be they can rent out the space and make money
jim beam gets a ton of exposure
all the shows are in major cities where 1 am start is not ridic
seems pretty straightforward

does everyone that goes to these shows get commemorative caps?

everyone gets commemorative mustaches

So they'll film some shows? I don't see any reason to mock this. Yeah so it's not very late, what idiots gawd!

Though honestly they didn't really explain this very well. Is there a concept/gimmick to it beyond recording live performances?

Pitchfork presents: Youtube.

Oh wait they're throwing shows. So they're just booking bands?

we can mock it for its "water is wet" marketing approach

it's almost like Jim Beam came to them and said "we have X amount of dollars what could we do" and then they came up with this idea and now people in New York can see a Majical Cloudz show

Assuming it's not JUST them booking bands for random venues, I don't even know what it is at all before I can mock it.

its an advertising partnership. they're just booking shows, but jim beam pays for it

it sounds like it's just them booking bands at random venues

and it's called "nightcap" because it's sponsored by an alcoholic beverage company

it's not very interesting or imaginative but it could be worse -- there could be dumb fake mustaches or they could have spelled it "nightc@p" or started an aggressive hashtag branding campaign

why are we discussing this

i'm not trying to be snide, i'm just curious
is the presumption that the pitchfork name means it deserves scrutiny/ridicule?

Adam Bruneau otm