what's up with that Brent D Beastie Boys review/farewell review?

is this a joke?

>> RETRACTION

Last Tuesday, June 15th, Pitchfork published a review of the Beastie Boys' To the 5 Boroughs by Brent DiCrescenzo, a frequent and trusted contributor. In his review, Brent detailed experiences with the Beastie Boys' public relations firm Nasty Little Man, and its president Steve Martin, over the course of several years. Pitchfork has since determined that a number of DiCrescenzo's assertions were false, based on corroborated statements from the two parties he claimed were participating in the chain of events referred to in the review. With apologies to Steve Martin and Nasty Little Man, we have retracted the original review in its entirety, and would like to make the following known publicly, to correct any and all falsities perpetrated by Brent's review:

1) Radiohead were never in Milan in June 1999.

2) Radiohead never moved a concert from Villa Reale in Milan to Monza in 1999, 2000 or otherwise.

3) Steve Martin never "forgot to tell" Brent that the concert was moved, as it was not.

4) Neither Steve Martin, nor anyone working for Nasty Little Man, ever confirmed a Radiohead interview with Brent DiCrescenzo or Pitchfork.

5) Brent DiCrescenzo's declaration that Steve Martin had not gotten back to him or Mean magazine about a possible Beastie Boys interview after six weeks is untrue: Martin was in constant contact with Mean publisher Kashy Khaledi and editor Andy Hunter throughout that period.

6) Mean magazine never "delayed their publication to accomodate [Martin's] procrastination." Kashy Khaledi did so of his own volition in order to keep the Beastie Boys cover story Martin had confirmed and saw through with him every step of the way.

7) Steve Martin has never, to Brent DiCrescenzo's knowledge, "dangled [his] major artists... like carrots to the media in an attempt to blackmail press for features" on less established artists or bands.

Sincerely,
Pitchfork

I think that the review was supposed to be taken at face value as true, especially since I remember around that time (actually more like a year later, circa Kid A, which is the one big error) Ryan Pitchfork talking up the fact that Brent was going to get to interview Radiohead.

I think my David Brent DiCrescenzo pun needs posting in two threads.

argh didn't knwo that was so big

"How To Bend Over 101" ?? dude i thought i signed up for "Intro to Stickin It to the Man"!!

I stumbled across this on a Metafilter thread: http://www.coreyandcorey.tv/
Brent D of fired-from-'fork-fame is starring in some kind of ironic 80s mockumentary about Coreys Haim and Feldman.
The bio uses the word "Welebrity" to describe this guy in citing his controversial Pitchfork reviews. I hope to never, ever hear the word "welebrity" again.

I hate you for even bringing it to my attention.

Too bad Brent can't supplement his income the way the Coreys can.

Oh GOD do I hate this fucker

i think "weblebrity" sounds better

I can't think up a single damn witty thing about this guy. I just HATE this fucker.

the trailer for the "movie" is very awful, i'm sad to report. really, really, really awful. like worse than the "comedy" movies my friends and i made in college.

Just reading the description made it sound beyond awful.

a friend of mine in high school made a two-minute short called "A Day In the Life of Corey Haim and Corey Feldman", which featured scenes of them drinking cough syrup and scrambling for change in the couch cushions and passing out in a pool of their own sick, set to "Back In Baby's Arms" by Patsy Cline. That was back in '92 or something, and even then my friend was saying how the joke was a little stale.

STALE IN '92, BRENT! and is this what he meant when he said:

I have more interesting stories to tell.

CEWEBRITY?

CEWEBWITY

WEBWEBWITY

pitchfork, the movie.