pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

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Pitchfork 2016:

omg, Bowie was, like, such an innovator, right? I can't even

I wonder if Khloe Kardashian has a verse on Swish, that shit would be off the hook

is 'racist idiots' just that they named their band viet cong or is there more to this

admittedly i haven't read it, but

http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/999-carlos-dengler-on-how-david-bowie-gave-him-the-freedom-to-quit-interpol-and-find-himself/

what the world needed this week was a good ol' comparison of the guy from interpol to david bowie, written by the guy from interpol

uh hello obvious the notable carlos d thread was a motivator

http://exclaim.ca/music/article/8203not_yours_to_play_with_why_viet_congs_name_offends-hooded_fangs_april_aliermo_on_community_racism_appropriation_of_neighbours_culture

In a Guardian piece, they explained that their name came from a moment when their bass player was holding his instrument like a weapon. One of them remarked, "All you need is a rice paddy hat and it would be so Viet Cong." The band have claimed "There are zero political connotations… we just honestly thought it sounded good and that it gives some imagery that matches our music in terms of it being explosive and dark." In an interview with Impose Magazine, the band talk about how, in old movies, the Viet Cong were so "bad ass."

"All you need is a rice paddy hat and it would be so Viet Cong."
"There are zero political connotations… "

does not compute

When I was a 10-year-old boy, surviving the cultural wilderness of inland Queens

cultural wilderness of large NYC borough

everyone should read the carlos d thing, it is full of gems

they should change their name to the Nazis next. and after that they could change it to the Khmer Rouge.

I’d done it again, only this would be the last time: I’d toyed with a fragile nervous system, dousing it with chemicals and warm bodies well past the hour when most mortals had already made it to the office somehow.

misread that as "full of germs" xxp

admittedly i haven't read it, but

http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/999-carlos-dengler-on-how-david-bowie-gave-him-the-freedom-to-quit-interpol-and-find-himself/

what the world needed this week was a good ol' comparison of the guy from interpol to david bowie, written by the guy from interpol

― Karl Malone, Thursday, January 14, 2016 12:04 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark

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haha thanks forks. that's a shame i half like the record i wish they weren't dumb

hey, back to that 80s list:

114) Talk Talk - “Life's What You Make It”

whaaaaa "RAINBOW" TOP 10 PLZ

the '80s list was 2015? seems like years ago.

The decadence of the '00s was at an end. It was a time of conservation, of the profit principle, of high anxiety, of major label betrayals, of group therapy and raised voices, of cold, stony pursed lips on poker faces disguising a contagious terror that trickled down from managers and executives quivering in their boots. Free downloads threatened to take away yachts. The end of art was nigh, I could feel it.

I didn't even make it that far

To top it off, I was sick of being in a band where my nickname was "Shamu."

I didn't even make it that far

― Οὖτις,

The end of art was nigh.

man, that guy is a total buffoon.

i think everyone kinda knew they were wrong about "GOOD Fridays is back" even though they kept writing those completely unconfirmed words so many times throughout the past week as if it they could just make it true by writing them over and over again.

it's music internet SOP now considering the ridiculous way people have acted about the Frank Ocean album

Kanye Didn't Release A Track Last Friday, And That's OK

Fucked up thing is I can no longer tell if that headline is for real or parody

Of course, there’s a long tradition of rock musicians using heroin to inspire their best music—think Lou Reed, Neil Young, Keith Richards—but Smith found no truth in such myths. “You can’t write music when you’re high,” he says plainly. “You can’t do much of anything productive.”

I suppose the generous reading here is that Neil Young used *the subject* of heroin but still wtf editors

could've substituted any number of less ambiguous figures (Cobain as already mentioned in the article, Sonic Boom etc)

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http://pitchfork.com/news/63150-arcade-fire-announce-first-shows-since-2014/

Wow, 2014? That was a little over a year ago! What have those dudes been up to?!

Putting together an airtight case for any funkiness that could occur on this tour

cannot believe a band waited a very normal (or what would even be the shorter end of normal) period of time btwn playing shows, what a world

lol shocked they are doing something w David Byrne too. next you will tell me they have a remix coming.

DJ Windows 98 plays a viral Drake song

Take note James Murphy - Pitchfork still covers you even if you don't announce a break as a breakup.

this might be my last one? i have no idea. anyway, out now. me and king soto and beta and matos as well.

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yeah, just got the latest issue, looks great -- andy beta's alice coltrane thing is nice, lisa jane persky's NYC 70s piece too! and of course matos is fantastic on Prince. it's a nice mag! $20 is a ridiculous price, but I don't know, they do a good job. hope you keep doing columns, scott!

Pitchfork: Some of your songs, like “Fireworks,” also contain surreal narratives—how has the idea of making a story, or having a point, been something that's become important to you?

did the interviewer just ask why having a point is something that is important

a week later but I'm seconding the new Review. I read it in one sitting.

On the front page of p4k.com there are summaries of the dailly record reviews - anyone know how to find summaries for older reviews?

http://i.imgur.com/LPCOwhf.png

Wayback Machine

kind of a weird request. if i were pitchfork i would be like "why are you so obsessed with me?"

I'd be like "hey good point we should probably include those summaries in the actual reviews as introductory paragraphs in boldface or smth like they do in the papers"

can't argue with that

waybackmachine works for finding them, was looking for the Rihanna/Anti blurb:

Anyone hoping that ANTI might be Rihanna’s opus, some grand declaration of intent, is likely to be underwhelmed. ANTI is a fun and conflicted pop record, at its most interesting when it’s at its smallest and most idiosyncratic. If the album has a narrative arc, it’s about disappointment: the ways in which the people you trust can still come up short in the end, and how lonesome that can feel.

they're usually just an amalgamation of sentences from the review?

but maybe the separate fragments of the summary could be highlighted in bold in the review? i dunno could be a fun time and not confusing

they contain clues about the content of the full reviews and should have Spoiler alerts

it's the abstract

that's the word, thanks