pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

Sorry I dissed Whiney upthread that guy is a force for good

don't really get the "no girls" bit when they've got more women contributing than ever

not say there couldn't be LESS straight indie boyage, just that i don't know how it's worse

I know how the free content business model "works" and how clicks are real important, but "news" like these still annoy me, especially the clickbait framing

http://pitchfork.com/news/56375-aphex-twin-reveals-amazing-syro-album-artwork-and-bio/

"Amazing SYRO Album Artwork"
"Here is the utterly amazing Aphex Twin bio that has been sent out in a press release"

David Lynch Nearly Directed the Video for Kanye West's "Blood on the Leaves"

Daft Punk almost went to Orange Leaf, but opted for TCBY instead

pfork also used my favorite metal pr verb ("unleashed") in their headline for the grimes video

this is pretty great: http://zzzzaaaacccchhh.tumblr.com/post/95392568578/the-200-best-pitchfork-articles-of-the-decade-so-far

grimes updates tumblr

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/19709-dj-mustard-10-summers/

“Everybody say it’s so easy to make my beats,” Mustard Tweeted a few days ago. “[ Well ] take a swing at it you should be rich [ in ] no time cause I am.” The tweet was punctuated by two emojis that are crying while laughing.

this is like when the new york times alludes to vulgarities it refuses to print because ~classy~

true he should also have referred to DJ Mustard as "Mr. Mustard" in that sentence

Col. Mustard

i actually put those corrections in there in my original draft because it's clear reading that tweet that the misspellings were just dumb phone typos, and i think they made the intent of the tweet a bit harder to parse

oh do you mean the emoji sentence?? pitchfork should post emoji

i do but clearly they cannot

this is pretty great: http://zzzzaaaacccchhh.tumblr.com/post/95392568578/the-200-best-pitchfork-articles-of-the-decade-so-far

― campreverb, Thursday, August 28, 2014 3:30 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

I clicked on this just so I could close the tab

someone didn't get the joke

Upon reclicking and not closing the tab immediately I see now that it was a joke

Good joke

One endearing moment of weirdness, however, is “Teach the Children,” a slowed down snippet of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young’s “Teach the Children Well.”

sigh

know they love you

idgi how could a sentence even be more innocuous

Me either. This happens a lot here to me. Maybe I'm dull, but often times I wait till more people chime so I can gather clues about what makes some excerpt or lyric bad or good in any given thread.

think the writer got the song title wrong, an error not exactly exclusive to pitchfork

why post the juan maclean review now when the release is in exactly two weeks

I have a $10 wager going with a friend: I say the new Interpol will score a 5.9 or lower, he says 7.0 or higher.

I'm on your side there.

gonna say it's in the elusive six point whatever stretch

a stretch as vast as Paul Banks' waistline.

I bet it gets 79.15.

- some kind of musing about "in the years since interpol formed they've been" and so on
- last two albums have been kinda whatever
- new album shows them coming back with renewed confidence, maybe some line about settling into their role as relative old pros in the indie rock world
- 7.4

Why are they attaching the "Windowlicker" to literally every single news story about the new Aphex Twin album?

OK not literally, all but two (the blimp story has "Come to Daddy" and the interview excerpts has no video) but:

http://pitchfork.com/news/56552-aphex-twins-syro-full-album-art-and-box-set-packaging-revealed/
http://pitchfork.com/news/56504-aphex-twin-announces-syro-listening-events-in-north-america-and-europe/
http://pitchfork.com/news/56457-aphex-twin-details-syro-says-it-wont-be-his-last-album/
http://pitchfork.com/news/56375-aphex-twin-reveals-amazing-syro-album-artwork-and-bio/
http://pitchfork.com/news/56341-aphex-twin-announces-new-album-syro-via-the-deep-web/

they've been doing that for awhile, must be an editorial requirement to have a video on every post, so it's "and here's the youtube video with the most hits from this person, which is otherwise unrelated."

I'm sure it's some kind of SEO baiting.

or maybe that Aphex Twin is not a household name for today's indie youth? ("oh yeah, that guy with the crazy video from way back")

hot chix in the video, duh

Time on site more than seo

I have a $10 wager going with a friend: I say the new Interpol will score a 5.9 or lower, he says 7.0 or higher.

― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Tuesday, September 2, 2014 11:24 AM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I win.

that's still about 3 points too high

opening a review with a 5.9 and then indulging in 5 paragraphs of COME LET ME TELL YOU A TALE OF A BAND THAT PEAKED A DECADE AGO before reaffirming the album's negligible status as their fourth-best out of five...and then starting your review.

like people who care about interpol don't already ask why they bother

shhh Branwell will hear!

I should have known there'd be a 9/11 mention in there. the ripple effect al qaeda had is still creating waves that lap at the shores of indie rock even today.

What will the next American tragedy mean for Interpol?

the number of p4k 9/11 references is absurd

this is the international police we are talking about here you guys

Not the guillemots

the number of p4k 9/11 references is absurd

― marcos, Monday, September 8, 2014 1:56 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

#neverforget

On June 1, 2009, Air France Flight 447 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. All 228 people aboard died. It's difficult to ignore that tragic fact now when reflecting on-- or, honestly, Googling-- an Air France record called No Way Down, and I know I can't possibly begin to feel the pain of those victims' families.

wait is that real?

J0rdan made the most hilarious string of posts in ILX history after that blurb

Wait, what happened on 9/11?

Jay Z released the Blueprint.