pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

i was impressed by the grizzled guy in his 50's who was looking for CDs yesterday who came up and said "Do you have any Flo Rida, Toto, or Survivor...?"

i do like surprises.

― scott seward, Monday, February 13, 2017 1:40 AM (nine hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'd be disappointed if you didnt give this man a big hug.

BONKERS! B-O-N-K-E-R-S!

http://pitchfork.com/news/71539-animal-collectives-new-song-is-kinda-bonkers-listen/

possibly the most irritating band on the planet

Because of their music, because of the critical discourse that surrounds it or both?

everything

the visual design too

maybe even especially

but is there anything inherently good in nickelback's sound

ahahah i didn't even make the connection when I heard the new song, the AC is appealing directly to p4k now...

These five words in my head
Ain't learned another chord yet

Nickelbonkers!

Misread that as 'Nice bonkers!'

Just popping in to say that the pic on this Grammy piece is fucking amazing

http://cdn3.pitchfork.com/blog/1441/1d3abc80.jpg

the trophy might as well be one of those cartoon time-bombs with the words WHITE PRIVILEGE emblazoned on it.

is it true The Pitchfork Review is over?

Chad Ubovich is already a proven guitar hero, having played in Fuzz and with Mikal Cronin

really stretching the definition of "guitar hero" here, guys

Love that classic Ubovich tone

i mean, he does rip and he's played in several good bands

http://pitchfork.com/tv/61-the-short-list/1935-five-essential-songs-featuring-vocoder/

Boreds of Canada and Cities of Foam but no Mantronix, no Grandmaster Flash & The Curious Five, no Project Future, what a lame list

Furious even

hey man it's essential songs--you can't live without Cities of Foam, can you?

how to wreck a nice pitch

"i want to be your man" ainec

I hate to be a pitchfork pedant, but it's not THE five MOST essential songs, it's just five essential songs

I wish they included a couple talkbox songs so people could explain a talkbox isn't a vocoder

and then they could include something from Frampton Comes Alive, and secretly have it loop infinitely

Really don't like that with the redesign from some time ago that they got rid of the daily track reviews. Lame.

Tracks reviews are still running it seems, but they are buried away on this page:

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/

Yeah just noticed that - what a weird UX decision.

wow wtf, I visit them regularly and I had no idea about 9/10 of that #content

i was confused about where to find track reviews for a minute, but then i thought "hey i wonder what's the latest?" and instantly knew i should click "the latest", and then i found the link to the tracks there. the latest tracks, that's what i'm looking for, makes sense

kind of like when i visit NYT and i'm looking for videos but i can't find them off the front page, but then i think "i want to see some videos that make me go whoooaaa", which prompts me to click the "whoooaaa" link, which of course leads to a link to the videos

some of you may remember that this form of free association leading to repositories of content categories was a staple of early search engines. instead of searching for "how to clean red wine stain" you'd go for something like "an evening in the balance" and just hope you'd land on the right area which would then lead to the wine cleaning tips

I think the problem here is that there was a section for tracks on the homepage for years, and with that gone and the section not easily findable, it's not unreasonable to assume they're just not there anymore. Plus, if you click on "reviews" in the menu, where you might expect to find them, they're not there, and there is no link to tracks from there.

It's also mad difficult to find the escort classifieds

I think the problem here is the four people on ILX that still visit homepages in 2017

MailChimp has a new marketing campaign where, in a series of websites and videos, they offer “experiences” that rhyme with the company’s name. As it turns out, VeilHymn—the new duo of Dev Hynes (Blood Orange) and Bryndon Cook (Starchild & The New Romantic)—is part of that campaign. (Cook is a former Pitchfork intern.) A MailChimp press release names VeilHymn alongside “MailShrimp,” “KaleLimp,” “WhaleSynth,” and more as “strategically created executions targeting digital subculture.” The duo were prompted by the company to give the project a name that rhymed with MailChimp. A representative for Hynes confirms that their single “Hymn” was created exclusively for the company. The song’s interactive video on VeilHymn.com redirects to other websites created for the MailChimp campaign.

http://pitchfork.com/news/71815-dev-hynes-new-band-veilhymn-chose-name-wrote-single-as-part-of-mailchimp-promotion

thanks to p4k for confirming the meaning behind those stupid billboards and the reveal of these "strategically created executions targeting digital subculture". '

they should cut out the middle man and just start unedited posting press releases in full.

VeilHymn and the other experiences were launched, a MailChimp press release says, “with the intention that people may organically come across one or two parts of the campaign, piquing their interest enough that they would want to dig deeper.” When the song surfaced last month, the “Hymn” SoundCloud bio and premiere post did not address the project’s affiliation with MailChimp. The song’s YouTube description and a press release for the “Hymn” video, sent to Pitchfork on February 8, didn’t mention the company. “With all of the alter egos, we wanted to play it cool at first and let them each create intrigue and interest on their own,” Mark DiCristina, the senior director of brand marketing at MailChimp, told Pitchfork via email.

good to know they didn't want to draw attention to this viral campaign i am reading about on the world's leading music news website

I think the problem here is the four people on ILX that still visit homepages in 2017

Yeah, because there's really an abundance of people lining up to read music journalism in 2017.

HOMEPAGES ARE GOOD

THEY ARE WHERE YOU ARE WELCOME

A rare metal album getting Best New Music that isn't Pallbearer, Baroness or Deafheaven.

especially weird given that it's a straight up 80s revival thrash record

it's weird how The Pitch is gone, and more broadly how that whole era of content has passed. things happen so fast now

This Pitch is gone?
http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/

oh weird lol

i guess i just see less of the '14 era Pitch-style takes floating around

if you want to get to the pitch from the home page, just remember what you're ultimately looking for. the latest. the latest information about music. luckily there's a link called The Latest and it leads directly to another link to the pitch

oof, maybe not the greatest idea to have a dude write the column about whether it's OK for a female musician who's been sexually harassed to punch her harasser. also pretty gross to frame the journalistic recounting of the incident in the teaser as "Last week, Princess Nokia hit a man in the crowd who asked to see her tits." Just because that's the language the guy allegedly used doesn't mean you have to retell it exactly that way.

A rare metal album getting Best New Music that isn't Pallbearer, Baroness or Deafheaven.

Yeah this was cool and unexpected, I was expecting it maybe for Pissed Jeans but not this

I don't get why this got BNM why Vektor didn't? Are they more known or something?

I mean, I listened to it and it seemed good, but Vektor seemed a lot more p4k-y.

I suspect that the Power Trip album will be more accessible to folks who aren't really conversant with the current state of the genre. Terminal Redux is a massive art-prog opus, but engagement with it requires time, strong ears, and a willingness to deal with music that defines its own terms. Nightmare Logic, OTOH, sounds and functions "like metal" (circa 1985, anyway). Catchy chugging, shout-along choruses, perfect for getting drunk and making hair animals.