pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

the thing i'm most annoyed by is that the design and illustration work around this decade-end package is just horrible

yeah what's the deal? it's supposed to look like iphone icons?

that's so this decade tho

go let them know
https://www.facebook.com/events/504028790391409/

None of these scenarios would have been thinkable for indie rock bands of previous generations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-ADAr9-Aqs

Shhh, don't talk about things that happened before Pitchfork existed. It upsets them.

I did a whole listicle about this in 2011 with 37 items on it

https://www.spin.com/2011/11/fear-slack-planet-hip-hops-indie-rock-crush/

lol perfect

would have appreciated including Kool G Rap's sampling of Feist but I am like that

nonE oF theSe scenArIoS WOuLD HAvE BEEn tHInKabLE FOr indIE RocK BANDS OF PrEViOUs GENerAtiOns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCBYPwT912M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDTSUwIZdMk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XhYEqz2Hu8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnMN4zawNEw

this is what i'm here for.

it's easier for me to now whenever a millennial or younger makes some big statement about music or movies online I just add "....since 2005" to the statement

the quality of contemporary music has been on a steady decline since 2005.

....since 2005

i think of 2005 as a nadir of all culture actually

it was pretty rough. indie had yet to get all wohhhhhh'd out. but man it was in the mail.

2005 was a very good year for me but that's mostly when i stopped listening to indie so

it helped me branching out more. thank you 2005!

Gang Starr’s First New Album in 16 Years Announced, New Song Shared: Listen

?

it's a hologram

but what kind of IPA does Mr. Starr prefer

the hip hoppiest one out there, of course

show of hands, who thinks Pitchfork would've reviewed the new Muffs album if it came out 3 weeks ago?

They reviewed the 2014 album and, for a similar example, Veruca Salt's Ghost Notes. Those are both from 4+ years ago, of course.

Surprised they reviewed the 2014 album. (I should've checked.) Maybe I'm wrong! Fair enough.

show of hands, who thinks Pitchfork would've reviewed the new Muffs album if it came out 3 weeks ago?

Had the same thought briefly flash through my head, but then I saw they also reviewed the new Third Eye Blind so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, October 18, 2019 11:36 PM (yesterday)

Premier began work on the album in late 2017 while an urn with Guru’s ashes sat atop his production console.

Hard to Urn

i reviewed that dog too

Hard to Urn

― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, October 18, 2019 12:58 PM (twenty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

omg

he's a rapper like Puffy or Dr. Dre, also I'm assuming a big change in the perception is changes in who is ghostwriting for him

He's much better than those 2. I'm basing this solely on his freestyle in that Ice T doc film.

lol @ Hard To Urn

surprised to not see something here about me being dumb (when reviewing my edit, I reviewed the final version from the google doc and not the CMS, because I was on mobile and have the app; the version in the google doc was fine, but the CMS version introduced a very obvious error that upset the artist, and that I feel awful about)

if it makes you feel better we could jeer at you a bit

I don't even know if the artist was actually upset

she certainly invited her fans to pile on

she didn't

sure

k

if she invited her fans to pile on they did a shitty job of that, that's not why I feel awful, I feel awful about its existence, that I could have prevented, had I done something differently

(by "a shitty job" I mean they didn't; I only found out about it late in the afternoon)

just a typo, right?

These things happen, k, especially to overworked writers

more of a mix-up, I assume, to be clear where I am at fault is not in introducing the error but failing to see it before it was too late

You’re not at fault at all, I understand how you feel with it being under your byline, but I see the editor took responsibility / apologized, seems like it’s all good

who was mad?

actually, I take that back, I don't think the artist tweeted about it at all (or else deleted it), people had just atted them in

wait, no, she did

it is irksome to be misnamed in print, but on the other hand it's a small understandable mistake of the sort that happens all the time and it was fixed immediately, so only an egomaniacal monster would care more than a minute. there aren't any egomaniacal monsters out there on music industry twitter are there??!?

K-Rock flipped formats in 2005. Not a coincidence.

Was struck by the contrast btw this observation in today’s Go-Gos review:

As the Los Angeles punk scene emerged in the late 1970s, it was inclusive, diverse, and pioneered by marginalized voices.

The song is a reminder, in a culture that rhapsodizes the early days of punk, exactly how limited its considerations of the most marginalized people were, how narrow its stage once was and how vast it is becoming.

good catch