man it would warm my heart to click on a new pitchfork review and be faced with a short-story-as-review rather than introductory links and "it has been five years since blah blah..."
― da croupier, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 19:08 (nine years ago) link
Look at Pork records, a great little label from England that continues to plug away in obscurity while Moby's Play dominates the clubs and the charts. And how about Warp? It's like comparing primitive, neaderthal stone carvings to the Sistine Chapel.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 19:11 (nine years ago) link
4 out of the 5 review descriptions on the front page refer to how many years its been since...
― da croupier, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 19:14 (nine years ago) link
i mean i'm in no position to throw stones when it comes to pondering how many times the earth has circled the sun since a song dropped, but man change it up
― da croupier, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 19:16 (nine years ago) link
it seems like only yesterday that ______
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 19:16 (nine years ago) link
― da croupier, Tuesday, July 29, 2014 3:08 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
haha totally
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 19:31 (nine years ago) link
"it's not surprising, then..."
"'Three years after the release of their last EP, and two after an acrimonious split with original guitarist'...oh FUCK IT i'm going to pretend i'm the singer's psychologist and that we discussed his last album at our last session!"
― da croupier, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 19:36 (nine years ago) link
^^knowing how reactive p4k can be to this thread i expect to see Brent DiCrescenzo and Nick Sylvester back on staff by tomorrow
― een, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 19:51 (nine years ago) link
"Three years since the Austin-based band became Brooklyn-based"
― marcos, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 19:58 (nine years ago) link
nah Nick S. is on the good side of the coverage now
― festival culture (Jordan), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 20:03 (nine years ago) link
i heard you moved from austin to brooklyni heard you moved from brooklyn to austin
― mattresslessness, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 20:07 (nine years ago) link
any of you guys want to go see skrillex with me tonight
― maura, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 20:27 (nine years ago) link
Nearly thirteen months since our last meeting, Maura
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 20:28 (nine years ago) link
he goes on at 9:30
― maura, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 20:30 (nine years ago) link
I'm seeing Bright Eyes insteadhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7GJcKuVGm8
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 20:43 (nine years ago) link
forever whinei'm gonna beforever whine
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 21:30 (nine years ago) link
Not only are you exactly what you promised yourself you wouldn't be (old)
Champion-level projection here.
― Man, when I tell you she was cool, she was red hot, I mean she was (intheblanks), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 21:57 (nine years ago) link
if only there was some way to not get old, maybe continually investing my time and energy in youth cultures will work
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 22:00 (nine years ago) link
you post on a pop music message board
― dilligaf escape plan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 22:04 (nine years ago) link
it's a lot of kinds of music message board
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 22:06 (nine years ago) link
really enjoying Cold Worlds, thanks pitchfork.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 22:09 (nine years ago) link
i don't understand how wondering why YG didn't get an arbitrary designation (that generally means something tangible to those who receive it) from a website = earnestly engaging w/ the music of the National and the Hold Steady
― alpine static, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 22:37 (nine years ago) link
the right side of that equation is a much more worthwhile use of time
― een, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 22:40 (nine years ago) link
I half-agree with you
― alpine static, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 22:41 (nine years ago) link
the sold heady
― switching letters guy, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 22:42 (nine years ago) link
― da croupier
otm, this is the sort of human endeavour of which i approve
― ogmor, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 23:31 (nine years ago) link
Love that Whiney was making these posts with a DEP dn
― 龜, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 23:48 (nine years ago) link
Calculating Bnminity
― 龜, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 23:49 (nine years ago) link
I still can't get over this fucking Nightcap thing
http://pitchfork.com/news/54930-pitchfork-launches-nightcap-series/
― DERE is no DERE DERE (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 19:17 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41aCv9sSRAc
― da croupier, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 19:21 (nine years ago) link
hard to believe in two years jim beam has gone from daughtry and rolling stone to majgikal clowdzez and pitchfork
http://www.beamsuntory.com/news/press-releases/jim-beam-lms
― da croupier, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 19:25 (nine years ago) link
can you imagine, concerts late at night, what a novel concept
― some dude, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 19:34 (nine years ago) link
http://www.voicesofeastanglia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Jim-Bam-Adverts-704x400.jpg
― da croupier, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 19:42 (nine years ago) link
wonder if we can get one of these with bon iver and steve winwood
― da croupier, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 19:43 (nine years ago) link
oh wait bon iver reps bushmills forgot
https://twitter.com/JimBeam/status/473962644307578882
― da croupier, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 19:46 (nine years ago) link
https://twitter.com/JimBeam/status/490514526035378177
― da croupier, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 19:49 (nine years ago) link
It is smart marketing for both parties, dunno why we would be picking on this. Of all things they did wrong over the years.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 20:09 (nine years ago) link
i didn't realize i was being a bully, sorry
― da croupier, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 20:22 (nine years ago) link
i mean why WOULD one mock astute corporate synergies
― da croupier, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 20:26 (nine years ago) link
because they aren't rock n roll!!
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 20:33 (nine years ago) link
at this point i'd say they've been rock longer than they weren't
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zcBBFyzgkI
― da croupier, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 20:35 (nine years ago) link
nonetheless, i still find variations on "COOL brought to you buy BOOZE" funny
― da croupier, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 20:40 (nine years ago) link
cool is usually brought to you buy booze iirc
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 21:10 (nine years ago) link
*by
but a VERY interesting slip there.
pitching the baffler as we speak
― balls, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 21:13 (nine years ago) link
dammit i was wondering when someone would figure out the advertorial logic to my typos
― da croupier, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 21:13 (nine years ago) link
I thought late shows were kind of universally frustrating to all concert goers and there seems to be literally NOTHING marketable about this, and you are taking a half-baked unwanted thing and trying to spin it in a positive way but all of it seems completely ridiculous and unnecessary
― DERE is no DERE DERE (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 21:31 (nine years ago) link