pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

pitchfork is dumb

now i have to remember to check a tumblr

Pitchfork finally ends their coverage of underground/independent nobodies to realize their true calling: Covering the most popular pop, rap and R&B albums on the planet.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, March 1, 2016 4:14 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

wish they stopped covering metal entirely so i could just hate them without reserve

― Laertiades (imago), Tuesday, March 1, 2016 11:25 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is in the mail, too, I bet.

curious to hear the reason for this

rhymes with "blondie blast"

idk all good features die eventually. nabisco and tom ewing used to have weekly columns. 6 years seems like a good run for this kinda thing, and marc will still write for the site.

i miss my column for the pitchfork magazine. i never got to write about my favorite randyandy album!

https://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/r/randyandy~~_randyandy_101b.jpg

The People Livin' In The USA!

http://noisey.vice.com/blog/is-the-album-review-dead

yes that one is bad

Trash

“Anybody could put their thoughts on a record out there. I think the world of reviews and opinions is now very much a meritocracy.” - anthony fantano

For a recent example of how maddeningly insular the black hole of music journalism has gotten, take the story of the Brooklyn band Wet. Pitchfork ran a review of Wet’s major label debut, Don’t You, this year. The review was unkind, slapping it with a mere 4.0 rating, and poking fun at the notion that the band is an industry plant, propped up with live showcases, BBC1 playlists, and clips on Khloe Kardashian’s Instagram account. Shortly after it was published, two editors at the site Genius ran a review of Pitchfork’s review of the album in the form of annotations, taking the original review’s points to task and arguing on behalf of Wet, not doing much to dispel the conspiracy that Wet is in fact an industry plant. Hang on, not done yet. Then, after the review of the review ran, and music writers began arguing on Twitter as is their livelihood, Jezebel ran a blog post recapping the drama the situation had wreaked. It's hard to believe a casual music listener who simply wants to learn about a new band would follow the conversation that far down the content hole, especially once it strayed from what the album actually sounded like. But wait! Before we come back through all the layers of this online journalism inception, it should be mentioned that the whole story is being recapped in this article you’re reading about music criticism right now. And maybe someone will write a response article to this as well. The circle of content life.

But wait! I saw that quote, and now I'm reacting to it...on ILX, a completely separate website. On the internet!

i got to "hang on, not done yet." shouldn't have left that in, it was like a trap door for me.

yeah a bummer, my favorite thing, too -- kind of surprising, really, seems like it covered a good niche that pfork wouldn't want to entirely abandon, even if it wasn't going to be a huge source of clicks

What other sites are good for the same kind of stuff? I used to love Foxy Digitalis, which evolved into http://www.secretdecoder.net/ Anything else?

hmm, http://adhoc.fm/ kinda skews in that direction?
just was digging through this site as well: http://the-hum.com/

xp the argument about metacritic is severely undercut by the fact that the number of releases over ALL years that are in the red is extremely slim. (not that even this matters -- basically all websites that try to slap numbers onto an aggregate of critical reviews/year-end lists etc. need to be thrown in the garbage.)

Just get a Wire sub

^^^^

ha, yeah, true

Tape Op rules, lots of cool anecdotes come out in those interviews because the producers are in such a different headspace, talking with a colleague....like jack douglas confirmed that "Walk This Way" by aerosmith was composed aftertaking the band to "cool off" to a showing of Young Frankenstein and Tyler and Perry couldn't stop riffing on that gag from the movie

their krautrock issue was fucking amazing, best magazine i've read in years

lol that is amazing xpost

yeah i love tape op, even when it gets all technical and beyond my understanding. and it's free!

I cherish every tape op

http://pitchfork.com/news/64116-introducing-pitchforks-new-website/

Interesting. The old pf [used backbone](http://backbonejs.org/#examples-pitchfork) (which made sense in 2011), the new one uses React, pretty common story these days.

The red underline to indicate hyperlink is making it look like they spelled everything incorrectly.

Reviews below the fold for the first time in 20 years :O

yay whitespace

actually really ugly imo

hate it

Reviews below the fold for the first time in 20 years :O

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, March 13, 2016 9:07 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

awful

that's the first thing i looked for tbh, for a second i thought they'd just stopped having them

'new site design: we know you fuckers don't read anymore'

i don't understand the prioritisation here tbh. on loading the site i am presented with two news stories -- one which is telling me the website has changed, which no duh!, and the other just a share of something from a band's myspace or something, and one feature, an oral history which seems like it (probably) required more work than either news story and is actually exclusive content but is in the least prominent position

btw it seems like the big innovation is the ability to turn off coverage of non-indie musics if you don't like them

that innovation is def gonna please all the 4chan "cuckfork" ppl who think they're giving rap and R&B unjustly high scores because of "white guilt"

that shit's had to have sucked ballllz for whatever intern had to go back to 11 year old reviews and try to remember what Ninja High School sounded like

btw it seems like the big innovation is the ability to turn off coverage of non-indie musics if you don't like them

― carly rae jetson (thomp), Sunday, March 13, 2016 6:41 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that innovation is def gonna please all the 4chan "cuckfork" ppl who think they're giving rap and R&B unjustly high scores because of "white guilt"

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, March 13, 2016 6:44 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yay whitespace

srsly though, like the resident advisor redesign, it does make more sense on mobile

it actually makes a lot of sense when you look at it in 1-column vertical format

Looks like The Pitch has gone.

lol u read pitchfork

I swear I'd probably seen the word "cuckhold" like 20 times in my entire life then in the last couple years it's all over

it was a simpler time

don't get the sense in having only three news items at the top of the page instead of many more + the reviews this seems terrible in nearly every way

The Pitch is still there, as a category under "Latest." Though maybe it is effectively dead, who knows.

btw it seems like the big innovation is the ability to turn off coverage of non-indie musics if you don't like them

― carly rae jetson (thomp), Sunday, March 13, 2016 6:41 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wait holy shit, this isn't a joke

No one reads home pages