pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

who cares he sucks

i don’t have a strong opinion on him either way

God bless em, they still have RSS feeds. Getting back on that!

Have Pitchfork discontinued their "new tracks" page? No updates on it at all since December 1.

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/

A shame if they have, I found some great tunes via that page.

Sorry, December 4 not December 1. Anyway the point stands.

Watch Ezra Koenig, Haim Members Cover “Little Drummer Boy”

i think both of the lsat few posts can be summed up with "it's december"

They should get back to their genre-specific 2018 album lists — they petered out after Rock, Rap, and Metal.

what other genres are there

they experimental & electronic lists

they had*

I wish they'd do a list like this one for every year: https://pitchfork.com/features/the-out-door/9323-genres-of-one/?page=1

But since The Out Door fizzled in 2015…

"i think both of the lsat few posts can be summed up with "it's december""

okay, but to post pretty much nothing for the entire month seems a bit extreme. I'd understand if they went silent for a week or so either side of christmas.

They used to suspend album reviews after the ROY list until Jan, but have published one or two a day in that period the past few years

EOY that is

i'd been down to see a Roy list, list of the best Roys

I really miss both The Out Door and Resonant Frequency columns. Two of Pfork's best ever.

agreed

I was checking for a review of the last Drive-By Truckers album (2016) and I see that there wasn't one. It makes sense that over time Pitchfork is going to give up on bands they used to review habitually (studio, live, solo albums, comps, etc.) Are there other cases like this--where a band that used to score 8s (or higher) loses relevance and gets left behind?

sometimes it's less a conspiracy theory and more that a band is championed by one staff writer and/or freelancer who, for whatever reason, doesn't pitch the latest album

What happens when a band loses a publicist to narrate the record, which Lost Highway did so well.

or, like, the writer gets the flu and by the time they no longer have the flu it's too late to pitch

not everything is an epic smoking gun

imo too many albums

I'm not looking for Cancer Man in the Pitchfork offices or anything, but it seems almost natural that once some bands hit a certain age they no longer seem a burning topic of interest.

they skipped some kristin hersh albums.

yeah that is an actual example of what I am talking about, I did not pitch a review of the album because I was in task hell when it came out

Ok, this The-Dream review...

On other occasions, his words are clearly meant as commands to his partner. “I’ma send a picture of your pussy to my ex’s DM/And you gon’ send a picture of my pussy to your ex’s DM,” he sings on “Yours and Mine,” granting him a measure of control over all involved.

incisive analysis to be sure but is that an accurate quote?

Schreiber has quit? Shit, cat.

Yup. Here's the tweet.

I have some personal news to share today. Check out my statement below. pic.twitter.com/ooi0Dt5prN

— Ryan Schreiber (@ryanpitchfork) January 8, 2019

good riddance and eat shit

he can reduce the scores on my album reviews in hell

his mom is gonna be so irritated that he's living in her basement again, best of luck to him in his job search, might have to suck it up and get a haircut and go corporate

is he actually bad?

yes

4.6

— 😩 (@coralcola) January 8, 2019

i’ve imagined that pitchfork old heads in senior positions were the thing keeping CN execs from turning it into bustle.com for music or wtv and insisting on publishing 5 pieces of longform music criticism every day

Did you hear they were trying? Because it doesn't seem like they've been too successful (except for the review part).

nah just my imagination

kinda funny that schrieb still rides for hell hath no fury https://pitchfork.com/features/5-10-15-20/pitchfork-founder-ryan-schreiber-on-the-music-of-his-life/

it's not like you just stop being a hack

they should republish that john coltrane review in his honor

brutal

I moved to New York a few years before I turned 35, and by then I was fully embedded in the scene—it was the peak of NYC DIY culture. It was such a wildly special time for me. [DIY venues] 285 Kent, Death by Audio, Glasslands were all on the same block. There was always a show happening every single night. It was the height of the chillwave era.

I had managed to get myself on the mailing list for, like, every record label in existence. That was a big part of my motivation early on. Once I found out that they could send me free music I was like, “Game over, this is what I’m doing.

Hmm

tt

So why is he so bad & hated?

So why is he so bad & hated?

Because he founded Pitchfork.

boring

I've met him four times and it's like I'm meeting him for the first time.

maybe he will return to ilx now that he is retired from p4k

hmmmm why would a board full of lifer freelance music critics who all had music blogs/sites in the late 90s/early 2000s hate the one guy who got lucky and had his music site blow up into the defacto authority on indie music hmmmmmm i wonder