pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

he's married with a kid now (that piece is from 2014)

quick turnaround

that project really delivered after it reached its funding

sooner or later all music writers will end up at kickstarter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmXWkMlKFkI

it would be fucked that nabisco works at kickstarter if he weren't hired by another ilxor

this reminds me of Vote or Die. which didnt work

http://pitchfork.com/news/65898-introducing-the-pitchfork-music-festival-voter-engagement-and-mobilization-project/

Not a criticism of either, it just scares me.

nabisco left kickstarter and now is a story editor for the ny times magazine i think

has he been to any strip clubs lately?

I meant to share in this thread not Worst Music Writing.

Death Grips just tweeted a link to this art video http://ruinsmag.com/altered-states/the-caged-pillows/ which has snippets of old songs from Daft Punk, Death Grips, etc.

Pitchfork is F1RST with the news of nonexistent new track

http://i67.tinypic.com/24euirc.jpg

http://pitchfork.com/news/65915-death-grips-share-the-caged-pillows-video-watch/

first! peoples

hmm

http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1188-what-the-hell-is-simpsonwave/

I saved the frontpage with it on the Wayback Machine in case you ever want to gaze longingly back at the moment:
http://web.archive.org/web/20160614174547/http://pitchfork.com

Ugh, I just watched the two "explanation" videos contained within the Simpsonwave piece and I'm on irony overload. Do people actually live their lives like that? In that constant state of hyper-awareness and super smug jokiness?

i am pro simpsonwave btw. bought the blank banshee album after seeing this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTfa-9aCTYg

Site is desperately short on ideas at this point IMO.

http://pitchfork.com/news/66111-watch-pitchforktvs-brief-history-of-dad-rock/

idk if it is the redesign, quite possibly it is, but it seems like there has been a dramatic drop-off in quality across the site, it seems worthless to me now and i used to visit it everyday

I would say the Conde Nast acquisition has more to do with the direction of content on the site.

yea

is pitchfork changing? or ... are you?

good q

there's been a dramatic drop-off in quality in the stuff I've written but that is largely due to pulling my life in 500 different directions, 200 of which are outside the solar system and 250 of which are in hell

^^^^

also I think, for one thing, the pitch is much better than it used to be

FWIW, I haven't noticed a drop-off in the quality of the work of writers I already admire. The main qualm for me is probably less prominence on the homepage for track reviews. Tracks now only seem to appear as news items which I think makes it a little harder to keep up with newer stuff.

when will this place that just sold for millions of dollars learn how to run a company!

when will this place that just sold for millions of dollars learn how to run a company!

How much you can get someone to pay for something = always a mark of its quality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory

That dad rock cartoon is the single most smug and terrible thing they've ever done. It has nothing redeeming about it

I keep thinking the redesign is optimized for some specific platform or medium that I just don't use. Like, Oculus Rift or something.

i don't know how it works at pitchfork but if you see a video on a website that you don't like it's safe to assume that it was made by an entirely separate staff of people from the one that makes the website you enjoy reading

I keep thinking the redesign is optimized for some specific platform or medium that I just don't use. Like, Oculus Rift or something.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, June 16, 2016 11:59 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

do you use your cell phone?

Not for perusing websites, no. But I do use it to text, email and make phone calls!

is it really pronounced "Bone Eee-vere"? i just watched that dad rock video and that's how he says it. i always pronounced it "Bonn Eye-ver".

that dad rock video isn't that bad. pointless and not really worth watching but pretty accurate.

yeah i didn't find it terrible. kinda funny.

i looked at something yesterday on there and it was all about someone who may or may not have ripped some guy's song off for an apple ad and then it turned out that the guy who may have been ripped off had done apple ads and they had these pictures of apple billboards and videos of apple commercials and and all of a sudden i went heeeeeeeeyyyyyyy wait a minute did apple pay for this? it was a pretty non-news story that said the word Apple 5 million times.

is it really pronounced "Bone Eee-vere"? i just watched that dad rock video and that's how he says it. i always pronounced it "Bonn Eye-ver".

― scott seward, Thursday, June 16, 2016 12:44 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

bonny bear

idk if it is the redesign, quite possibly it is, but it seems like there has been a dramatic drop-off in quality across the site, it seems worthless to me now and i used to visit it everyday

― marcos, Wednesday, June 15, 2016 3:25 PM (Yesterday

same - i feel like they don't actually care if you read the reviews now and it feels like a bother to try

yeah i remember i never heard anyone pronounce Bon Iver until he was on The Grammys and everyone on twitter was like "who's Bonnie Bear?"

yeah i used to check it every day, even after i stopped writing for the site, but now it just feels like navigating a maze of shit i don't really care about to get to anything i might care about.

(also kind of weirded out to be posting in this thread 14 fucking years after i started it.)

pretty funny ... imagine the changes for, say, rolling stone between 1967 and 1981

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luei18753f1qdh92x.jpghttp://assets.rollingstone.com/assets/images/music/2004/galleries/1981-rolling-stone-covers/rs335-john-lennon-yoko-ono-369/22787_lg.jpg

i looked at something yesterday on there and it was all about someone who may or may not have ripped some guy's song off for an apple ad and then it turned out that the guy who may have been ripped off had done apple ads and they had these pictures of apple billboards and videos of apple commercials and and all of a sudden i went heeeeeeeeyyyyyyy wait a minute did apple pay for this? it was a pretty non-news story that said the word Apple 5 million times.

― scott seward, Thursday, June 16, 2016 12:49 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is a very uncharitable interpretation of a story (with actual reporting! it's sad that this is not common) that doesn't reflect well on apple. it mentions Shamir just as often -- did Shamir pay for the story too? your post mentions apple a lot -- did apple pay for that too?

as a general rule of thumb, major corporations do not sponsor stories that elucidate industry bullshit

i dunno, publicity is publicity these days. i read the whole thing and i just thought of appleappleapple.

i'm kinda dumb though.

How an Azealia Banks Soundalike Ended Up a Hit for Shamir, Who's Ostensible Soundalike Ended Up in Apple's New Commercial

Toward the close of 2014, Nick Jonas was thrusted pelvis-first back into the pop stratosphere.

jesus christ there's a grammatical error in the FIRST SENTENCE of the goddamn review

I barely look at pfork anymore it's so aggressively ugly and stupid but man that's sad