pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

referring to a female senior editor as 'the intern' strikes me as less of an antifeminist dickmove than halfheartedly giving one of the greatest albums of the 21st century so far an 8.3 and a trite let's-make-loads-of-shitty-comparisons review when had it been made by a man, say mark kozelek, who is maybe 1/60 as interesting as weyes blood, the review would have been fucking oceans of existential rapture. idk though it's all subjective isn't it

― imago, Thursday, October 20, 2016 11:07 AM (twenty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nice bait and switch here by the big man

those places are full of actual mouthbreathing morons though so I don't post there

i can see why it was a problematic statement and i feel a bit bad for saying it but i really was just commenting on the ineptitude of the writing. i didn't even consider the gender of the writer. perhaps i should have. sorry.

intern lives matter

and fwiw i think that more music journalism should be by women, poc and other non-hegemonic identities, but that won't stop me from calling out shitty music journalism if it directly misconstrues the work of artists i like, no matter who wrote it

and fwiw i think that more music journalism should be by women, poc and other non-hegemonic identities, but that won't stop me from calling women "the intern"

― imago, Thursday, October 20, 2016 2:41 PM (forty-one seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you're a pest, whiney, a pest

from here to internity

guys this is the thread for complaining about Pfork not rehashing pointless beefs

lol

looks like this thread has taken a 'tern for the worse

so I heard weyes blood in a movie theater the other day

you know what's a cool film is Wise Blood

this part kinda puzzled me:

"Or look to the album’s cover. The scene—a river winding through a dystopian landscape..."

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2396628571_10.jpg

i don't know, whiney, this sounds made for you:

"On “Generation Why,” arguably the album’s centerpiece, she actually sings the letters “YOLO” with more thoughtful care than the phrase ever deserved."

haha totes trolling whiney

lol

it really is a *terrific* album, though

"Or look to the album’s cover. The scene—a river winding through a dystopian landscape..."

lol what a hellscape

Someone should get her out of there before the tide rises!

not to worry

she'll touch upon the california drought in her next record

Ha, guess what they are playing in Rough Trade right now

https://www.google.com/#safe=off&q=pitchfork.com+wizened

Did I miss the part where the accepted meaning of "wizened" changed due to constant misuse? Or are all these artists wrinklier than I imagined?

http://pitchfork.com/features/from-our-partners/9943-rip-it-to-shreds-a-history-of-punk-and-style/

gross

Produced by Pitchfork for Levi's®

where is chris ott has he talked about this yet

Rip It to Shreds: A History of Punk and Style
Punk is more than just a sound, it’s a whole way of being, and rock’s new rebels preferred lived-in T-shirts and Levi’s.

stuff like that is v important it foregrounds the bullshitness of taste

A Brief History of Goth Is Coming: Watch
All-black outfits. Being overly emotional on social media. Kanye. “Stranger Things.” What is goth? An in-depth exploration is coming soon. Watch the teaser.

http://i.imgur.com/Bz0bU9l.jpg

is Stranger Things really goth? can't wait to find out.

I assume it was the inclusion of the Clash and Moby that made it goth

goth is a bunch of stuff that isn't goth

I refuse to take their goth survey seriously if it does not cover
https://www.google.com/search?q=tech+goth&espv=2&biw=1536&bih=790&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwikg4rk7_vPAhUH5GMKHUj9A1YQ_AUIBigB#imgrc=wEVVjkt93FED5M%3A

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/3a/5e/7c/3a5e7c8a456bda0024f045258e29b995.jpg

I'm bad at the internet

https://vaughnroycroft.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/jordanes-origins-deeds-of-the-goths.jpg

l-r: peter murphy, budgie

Ever since the redesign (could be coincidence) they've been posting these weird stories occasionally that only exist because they involve, in whatever abstract way, someone with a connection to the music business but don't have much else to do with the actual music or the business.

― Evan, Tuesday, September 27, 2016 9:30 AM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Just any thin connection to music at all is enough to get those juicy celebrities/sports news/elections clicks? Silly

http://pitchfork.com/news/69610-bill-murray-and-the-chicago-cubs-sing-go-cubs-go-on-snl-watch/

http://pitchfork.com/news/69608-watch-alec-baldwin-and-kate-mckinnon-escape-snl-to-arcade-fires-wake-up/

ppl love tv and sports

more than music

can't believe pitchfork is using the ridiculous tactic of covering things people want to read about

better late than never.

Why start now

the ghost of frank crowninshield compels them!

http://rockcriticsarchives.com/features/circus/rockcritics_circus79a.jpg

http://static.spin.com/files/field/image/100428-pollard-rose-414x275.jpg

watch-bill-murray-arcade-fire-fred-armisszzzczxzxzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Just silly to me is all. It's like they're looking for loopholes around their own rule about what they can write about. Just change the rule!

I forgot that Pitchfork started with a set of rules that we all know and love

panda bear rules

I forgot that Pitchfork started with a set of rules that we all know and love

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, November 6, 2016 7:56 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't care about the rule. I'm saying they are the ones caring about the apparent rule.