pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

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

i dunno that's gotta be one of the more popular sites where the home page actually does get a good amount of the traffic

can u turn off indie musics if u don't like them?

Gonna turn off notifications for everything but jazz so I only have to click on the site once every eighteen months.

but Kamasi

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, Monday, March 14, 2016 1:44 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wait what this is something that happens?!

Sadly, it doesn't remember my choice to clear out all genres other than rock. Also, just scanned quickly through all reviews and they don't seem to be offering soundcloud or spotify links to tracks anymore.

lol the other two header stories have been updated but 'announcing new website' is still the big one

i mean ffs

in news the two stories i hid by setting it to filter out rock were 'scharpling and wurster appear on the simpsons' (ok i guuuuuuuess) and 'majical cloudz play final show'

home pages are still going to be the number one traffic page on most sites

isn't it totally normal for websites that redesign to have a little summary of the redesign near the top? i expect that'll be up there all day

lol yes of course, idk how you can fault a website for explaining what they've changed and why they've changed it for, like, the first several hours after relaunching

but there is important news about what someone said about someone else that should be at the top, especially if someone else said that something was wrong but someone else says that the someone is also wrong

for god's sake please insert the music news drip into my carotid artery, i need a steady feed of exclusive news

the real scandal is that they decided to rip off CNN with their HTML title: "The Most Trusted Voice in Music"

this looks weird to me too but i'm sure pitchfork has tons of data about where people actually scroll and click that led them to altering the site in this way so \(o_O)/