pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

tbh i think its stupid as hell that this thread keeps getting bumped, like can't we just stick all this stuff on worst new music thread if its really that bad/worth complaining about

its not bad writing its bad thinking

i mean its also bad writing but thats sort of a given

Yeah but try being a musician now. I'm just resigned to doing this shit after my 9 to 5

The functional purpose of music writing at this point is to create places on the internet where an artist's name appears, and then trick people into clicking on it

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, May 29, 2015 4:42 PM (42 minutes ago)

I said something like this almost verbatim to a student a couple weeks ago but I remembered all those times Details ran cover stories on Stephen Dorff and Skeet Ulrich, i.e. it was ever thus except the paychecks are smaller.

so you're saying we should rename that other thread the 'bad thinking' thread? a lot of ilx would end up posted there

the dorff years were bleak. the sobieski plague another low point. thanks a lot, Interview Magazine.

aw, man, now i miss Movieline.

i used to make tape recordings of me reading Movieline interviews back in the 90's. i would play both parts. interviews with jason priestly and people like that. it was fun.

remember when skeet ulrich was on the law & order los angeles reboot

God 2015 sucks

...from the perspective of someone who doesn't write music reviews, i mean, and (evidently) doesn't write well in general. i guess now it's kind of expected to just acknowledge that it's easier and faster for people to just listen to a song and form their own opinion rather than read several paragraphs describing a song. to be annoyed by that is annoying to others. but i hate the direction that music journalism is going. 30 years ago had got g. marcus suggesting cool shit for you to listen to, now you get a link to a bandcamp and hopefully a few farting suggestions as to what it might sound like. however, i recognize that i also hate the direction that humanity is going and i'm totally ready to just move to the mountains and make moonshine and be even more irrelevant. *barf on self, barf on world, barf*

i used to make tape recordings of me reading Movieline interviews back in the 90's. i would play both parts. interviews with jason priestly and people like that. it was fun.

― scott seward, Saturday, 30 May 2015 01:26 (3 hours ago) Permalink

Lol

30 years ago G. Marcus could kick a ball in the street

you need to upload those tapes scott

my embarrassing "living in the middle of nowhere so what're you gonna do for the next three hours" hobby was using a pin to outline photographs in tv guide and then shining a light through the back to ILLUMINATE THE STARS

At last this thread is where it should be.

best mime rock review ever!

https://scontent-atl1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xft1/v/l/t1.0-9/11402682_10153981051017137_2468195060696685329_n.jpg?oh=4350c48b5d706ab9fd2daf0c7bb78d4b&oe=55EE9ABA

https://scontent-atl1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xat1/v/t1.0-9/11230653_10153981051177137_900644611352412645_n.jpg?oh=914c21a0ba98aff5d13d4a977c8576d2&oe=55F040C4

you just KNOW this person wanted to hate this place but they ended up liking it and got to hear a great captain beefheart song they'd never heard so they end up having to make fun of doritos.

http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/820-i-went-to-james-murphys-new-wine-bar-and-all-i-got-was-more-confused-about-the-state-of-the-music-industry/

also, that live LCD video freaked me out cuz i'd never seen that guy in area rock mode and the song is so weird! arena pomp city. i was trying to think of what it reminded me of and i drew a blank. like U2 mixed with some madchester band. plus, the video is totally shot like a commercial.

that article is poorly written

that article is poorly written

I think Hopper has been too busy with book tour and interviews to do any actual editing of Pitch submissions. Either that or she's a really bad editor.

Sweet jesus, someone put the Pitch out of its misery. Did the writer and/or editor just forget that the article started with the same (terrible) gag it finishes on?

i was trying to think of what it reminded me of and i drew a blank. like U2 mixed with some madchester band.

Ha, I love "All My Friends", but it does how a very strong "Where The Streets Have No Name" vibe, doesn't it?

does *have

all my friends and that music video gross me out so much

also this made me lol

As music fans, we've become inured to corporate sponsorship—most of all at festivals, as captive audiences, and on the web. It’s hard not to see the benefits when you see what Red Bull makes possible, like DFA’s recent 12th anniversary party.

let us all celebrate what red bull makes possible: dfa's 12th anniversary party

thank you red bull

no names, folks, this ain’t TMZ

sure it ain't

The New Yorker review of the restaurant also had a lede based around "All My Friends," which is really the hackiest thing to do in this context.

Losing my edge? The food here was so bad I was losing my lunch.

the sound of silverware

like a fine wine, james murphy is aging and kinda cool and hairy

I was there when James Murphy opened a wine bar etc etc

Maybe Daft Punk will play there tee hee

lol

that article is poorly written

I think Hopper has been too busy with book tour and interviews to do any actual editing of Pitch submissions. Either that or she's a really bad editor.

I'm actually curious why the editing at The Pitch is so lax, particularly since I admire Hopper's writing so much. I'm not the first one to mention it, but even the pieces that have good ideas in them give off an incredibly strong "young writer's first draft" vibe.

What's the point of a round table when the consensus is suffocating?

http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/827-a-rihanna-bitch-better-have-my-money-video-roundtable/

it doesn't really seem like a round table discussion though, more like a singles jukebox style "everyone does a blurb" and you get whatever consensus or disagreement rolls in

they're all otm anyway

fuck everything having to be turned around within 24 hours though, sometimes i feel like that's the worst aspect of music writing 2k15. even the best pieces i've read this year (about new albums, songs, videos etc), i know they'd have been so much better even a week later

The Avalanches' Darren Seltmann Has Left the Group
They're now a two piece
By Jeremy Gordon on June 29, 2015 at 1:41 p.m. EDT

Back in February 2014, Seltmann's wife, singer-songwriter Sally Seltmann, told Melbourne's Herald Sun that he'd left the Avalanches. The news was confirmed by the band's label, Modular, who said: "Yep, Darren hasn't been in the band for a while

nb: said confirmation is also from February 2014

What's the point of a round table when the consensus is suffocating?

The point is to establish the suffocating consensus.

^ a+

no idea what internet you are on where the consensus about this video is "suffocating"

he didn't say the internet, he said a specific roundtable piece and provided a link.

the piece may be a corrective to various thinkpieces that went unnamed in the roundtable, and "suffocating" is a bit much, but it is fairly monotone in terms of opinion for a "roundtable" of 8 writers

7, rather

in general there seems to be a problem now where writers proudly, and with swagger, refute anti-[whatever] "thinkpieces" that don't actually exist, or exist so far on the margins of discussion that orienting discussion around them is very limiting, and, imo, draining

takes on takes on takes

creating strawpeople is not a new thing. but it's not even that I don't think the thinkpieces exist (they might!), i just want names! though i guess i also get annoyed when people accuse the "internet" of something and then cite five rando-rubes on twitter.