pitchfork

Matt LeMay, who still works for the site as a senior contributor, put up a picture of a cactus instead of his face

“[Our writers] genuinely care about music,” the pitch read, “unlike some of the big time playaz that’re just in the business for the bling bling.”

Nirvana, a three-man band out of Aberdeen, Washington

*sigh*

spill it, lamp

Groups like Sebadoh and The Mountain Goats began recording on cheap, low-fidelity equipment (think: a boombox)

think: abt it

i think more than 2000 ppl definitely used to care about it at one point at least, the first person i ever heard about pfork from was kevin barnes lol and he DEFINITELY cares about pfork and i can remember when i still worked at wuxtry this record store in town that the only thing that was guaranteed to move volume like a pfork rave was an npr feature, i can remember customers telling me they had pfork as their homepage (and me probably telling them 'you should read the wire' lol) and i can remember if i went to the computers in the uga library guaranteed if you looked at user history someone in the past hour had looked at either pitchfork or the jamband database and i definitely remember this pfork review or that pfork review being the subject of conversation. i'm sure this is more a reflection of me being older, etc (god knows) but that john maus interview was the first thing on pfork i can remember ppl irl talking about (beyond liking yr usual nabisco or tom ewing column on facebook) since the black kids review (which for pfork's demo is a generation ago), even here nobody pretends anyone actually reads the reviews (smart move by pfork keeping the score after the jump).

you're talking about reading it, i'm taking about "actually gives a dribbling shit about its inner workings and politics" which is reserved for mischpusha, hipinion, ilx and a few people in bands

if the movie to be made out of new republic gossip and a huge bestselling book (and apparently potential movie) to be made out of espn gossip i guarantee you there's a magazine feature to be made out of pfork gossip, esp since there's apparently mutliple thinkpieces and a potential mumblecore movie to be made out of 'what does pfork signify???'.

guh typos galore, going to bed

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let's not forget that scott's charming little freakout on here was reported in the daily swarm and a whole bunch of places, so i'm guessing richard beck just saw that and doesn't, like, regularly lurk here (although he might be reading right now, hi boo!)

So all you have to do is say "I want a PDF of the article" and one will magically appear in your inbox?

welcome to web 3.0

I want a magical pony and candy for the rest of my life. Via PDF.

FWD: MyLittlePony_Candy_Catalog.pdf

Always figured Ned was a secret Brony

What the hell is the movie about "New Republic gossip"?

shattered glass

could be a could template for Shattered Raff: The Nick Sylvester Story

Wow, I kept googling because i couldn't possibly think balls was stupid enough to equate a world-famous case of journalistic fraud "New Republic gossip."

man why you gotta break his...stride like that

Like the difference is that there literally hasn't been a story coming out of Pitchfork that's a modicum as interesting as Stephen Glass to make a movie about. I'm sure middle america would be riveted by the harrowing tale of how hipinion got a joanna newsom album three weeks early, and the other time Nasty Little Man got mad at them, and that day they had the word "rape gaze" on their site for five hours. Keep thinking the ppl that went to see Shattered Glass were all New Republic stans though with your hilarious graph that proves literally nothing, balls.

whiney one gets the sense that your conclusions here are rather more strongly rooted in personal antipathy than in sober analysis

i'm sure middle america would be riveted by the harrowing tale of how hipinion got a joanna newsom album three weeks early, and the other time Nasty Little Man got mad at them, and that day they had the word "rape gaze" on their site for five hours. Keep thinking the ppl that went to see Shattered Glass were all New Republic stans though with your hilarious graph that proves literally nothing, balls.

enh ppl like media gossip generally i mean i dont think any1 in 2011 cares abt pitchfork particularly but i bet a decent gossip-y 'oral history' style magazine feature abt tha fork wld get 'mad page views'

i'd say let this one play xp

spill it, lamp

the whole 'i could never spend ten bucks on a literary magazine, let me regurgitate out of context quotes for lols, refusal to engage w/ideas' thing is just p dispiriting

i mean i guess its a p dumm article w/e who cares just seemed sad atm

fully support n+1 btw

the whole 'i could never spend ten bucks on a literary magazine, let me regurgitate out of context quotes for lols, refusal to engage w/ideas' thing is just p dispiriting

because there's nothing really to engage with? nitsuh already said it. it's 5,000 words of recieved wisdom thats basically stuff that every person on this thread knows about already. Its like a book report.

but i bet a decent gossip-y 'oral history' style magazine feature abt tha fork wld get 'mad page views'

― Lamp, Wednesday, September 7, 2011 11:49 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

that is true

hee hee:

no genre’s fans are more vulnerable to music criticism than the educated, culturally anxious young people who pay close attention to indie rock.

if indie rock fans are so educated, how do you explain Foster The People

no-one in the world actually likes Foster the People

^^^^

also: zombies

if there was an apparently untapped market for a feature on the history of THE NATIONAL to be grantland's big coming out piece (and unless i'm mistaken still the only thing that's been on grantland that couldn't have appeared on page 2 or vulture)(besides the ongoing legitimization of carles) i promise you there's a market for a history/behind the scenes of pfork, esp since there is apparently a huge market for regular hack thinkpieces on 'pfork: what does it all mean?'.

It means we avoid the phrase "think pieces."

i'm not gonna dignify these things by pretending they're essays.

will compromise w/ 'things that make you go hmm'.

is the moon in Scorpio or some shit everybody seems megapissy on like every thread today

nb there's a 99% chance it's just me for not sleeping

you haven't seen the latest posts on the "are you a hipster?" thread yet, have you

is the moon in Scorpio

two months to go!

Paying close attention to "indie rock" is so 1992. I read Pitchfork as much as any music lover (once a week if I'm lucky) and I just don't know anyone who does this. With 9/11 and the U.S. involved in two wars I think people have different priorities.

9/11 made me prioritize grime

xpost -- Most people in general aren't paying attention to 9/11 (except now as an anniversary-related news item) or said two wars either.

Never forget.

No, but I'm sure 9/11 and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan altered people's news consumption habits greatly, and those habits sink in. Most people I know on Facebook, for example, spend more time with newspapers and opinion pieces.

It's not that I hate Pitchfork or find it dull, it's that I use it more as a consumer than as someone who consumes music opinion in and of itself.