pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

The fact that Jazz is a genre filter on the site, and that Seth Colter-Walls is a contributor, is encouraging.

Kamasi ime is more jam band with funk elements than jazz but ymmv

― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Tuesday, September 20, 2016 10:20 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol what

Kamasi ime is more jam band with funk elements than jazz but ymmv

― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Tuesday, September 20, 2016 10:20 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol what

Yeah, I tried typing a response to that last night but my eyes kept rolling back in my skull.

Kamasi Washington's next album is a covers album of String Cheese Incident songs with Graham Central Station as his backing band

Bitches Bonabroo

it also feels like there's more reviews and articles on experimental music. The site is obviously moving away from indie rock, and it feels like they're filling some of that gap with increasing coverage of "avant-garde" stuff, particularly electronic stuff.

― intheblanks, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 01:52 (nineteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

almost excelsiored this tbrr

does anyone read the wire anymore btw

they do if they're in it that month

heyooooooo

braggin' 2016

seriously though pitchfork do not give one shit about avant-garde music

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22158-four-meditations-sound-geometries/

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21535-3-compositions-eemhm-2011trillium-j-the-non-unconfessionables-no-380quintet-tristano-2014/

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22345-arvo-part-the-deers-cry/

...comparatively speaking, and they definitely don't give a shit about new experimental artists

Those are all decades-confirmed masters

But, they just BNMed Sunergy (for example)

and Anna Meredith

well, they should give more of a shit, cf that clipping review mentioned upthread where they 5.3 hip-hop history

how much of a shit any publication gives about areas of music is usually borne out by their eoy lists rather than their intermittent concessions

anyway whatever i fight this erry day and yall bored

isn't covering clipping at all the definition of "giving a shit"

yeah fine

still think they only really cover shit if it's fashionable and they infinitesimally rarely let an underdog at the throne. kanye has a 100000x bigger chance of a 9.something than any bandcamp mc regardless of the respective quality of their outputs (not saying kanye is bad, even)

they only really cover shit if it's fashionable

this is a tautology or something i think /dumb_person

or maybe a misunderstanding of how entertainment media works

i remember the days when pitchfork would fearlessly drop 9+ on a clearlake album

they literally did that

oh i see

just forget i posted

me too

Louis is about five posts away from calling them "cuckfork"

did you literally compare me to a MRA redditor

goddamn i'm easy to rile

lol what
Yeah, I tried typing a response to that last night but my eyes kept rolling back in my skull.

does anyone read the wire anymore btw

― jason waterfalls (gbx), Wednesday, September 21, 2016 4:18 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they do if they're in it that month

― Dominique, Wednesday, September 21, 2016 4:20 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

heyooooooo

― jason waterfalls (gbx), Wednesday, September 21, 2016 4:21 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ouch

I read it every month, but I write for it, so.

At this point, I skim it in the bookstores, but feel guilty about that. Used to buy it almost monthly, but can't justify doing so given that I have subscriptions to several magazines that I never get around to finishing.

if the stuff that eg Phillip Sherburne and Andy Beta are reviewing is trendy then I must be particularly out of the loop these days

anyway it comes back to the actual writing - they might not award a BNM or even a top-of-page review to experimental stuff but if I read it and I think "hey this sounds like its for me and that 7.7 or whatever suggests it isn't awful then maybe I'll give it some time of my own and see if I form a better opinion of it"

I stopped my Wire subscription last year (for mainly financial reasons) and I feel a weird kind of guilt about it but not sure how much I actually miss it.

lol what
Yeah, I tried typing a response to that last night but my eyes kept rolling back in my skull.

i was surprised when i saw him live! dunno what to tell you!
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Wednesday, September 21, 2016 7:05 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I saw him live too and unless you're in some kind of Wynton Marsalis bop utopia where fusion and the whole 70s and 80s never happened....I dunt know how you can call it not jazz that's just lj level ludicrous

does anyone read the wire anymore btw

― jason waterfalls (gbx), Wednesday, September 21, 2016 4:18 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they do if they're in it that month

― Dominique, Wednesday, September 21, 2016 4:20 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

heyooooooo

― jason waterfalls (gbx), Wednesday, September 21, 2016 4:21 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ouch

proud + ashamed to say this applies to me!

What's your point? I hide pictures of myself with my phone number in all sorts of magazines.

I dunt know how you can call it not jazz that's just lj level ludicrous

https://www.quackergiftshop.com/eCart/catalog/(249)jazz%20rubber%20duck%20white%20headband.jpg

Funky duck

It's spiritual hat jazz

always good to judge a band by its audience

(deej otm tho)

I guess fusion jazz or whatever got pretty far from what noobs (like me) think of as /jazz/, especially live the drums were so beefy and playing like, banging hip hop beats; The other concert that Kamasi live most reminded me of was The Roots

everyone plays beats in jazz these days, we've had so many generations raised on beats that it feels like the natural and honest approach for young jazz musicians, whereas making the choice to swing feels very particular and antiquated.

i agree that this can feel jam band-y at times. a lot of bands are good at avoiding jam band pitfalls, but it's tricky.