pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

can someone explain to this print dinosaur if there is some internet economy / click-based / revenue-driven reason for Advance to NOT have a pause button? it's maddening. ok that might be overstating it a bit.

I wonder if labels insist?

this interview with dude from surfer blood about his domestic battery arrest is not very good

oh you didn't hit her? oh ok. you want to talk more about what did happen? no? oh ok. so maybe we should talk to the other person involved instead of just relying on your perspective? no? ok.

like maybe they just couldn't get the full story, which is fine, but then you don't have to run the story instead of just publishing this mild, vague, spineless thing

I kinda feel like the interview gives the guy enough rope (although it could stand to link back to the previous PF news item with the police report that disturbingly details what he did that was not 'hitting'). A q&a with an individual, even a controversial one, need not be held to the standards of a reported piece with multiple sources.

wow yeah, I just read that. I was wondering why he was being so precise about saying "I never hit anybody" multiple times.

i don't really see what was wrong with it? except surfer blood is a horrible band regardless of the singer's record.

ha otm

i guess some dude is right but the thing just felt pointless and perspectiveless and like there was a big hole in the middle with missing questions and answers

Surfer Blood getting desperate for "hits"

can someone explain to this print dinosaur if there is some internet economy / click-based / revenue-driven reason for Advance to NOT have a pause button? it's maddening. ok that might be overstating it a bit.

I wonder if labels insist?

either that or it's something to do with streaming royalty rates. it's more expensive to have a completely on-demand service and less expensive to have "Internet radio" where the listener has more limited control over what's playing.

although since it's obviously set up in collaboration with the record companies I don't know if they pay royalties on that or what.

i don't really see what was wrong with it? except surfer blood is a horrible band regardless of the singer's record.

― call all destroyer, Friday, May 10, 2013 4:04 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark

i think the problem with that piece is that even though it tries to stay neutral, by design it works really hard only to engender sympathy for someone who doesn't really need or deserve it (i.e. "did this case make it harder to concentrate on your music?")

i doubt his victim would want to talk about this so that seems like a pipe dream to me and i admire PF's willingness to wade into the fire here because surfer blood is a band everyone could ignore with no consequences but i think it wasn't pushy enough in places and just... sort of a lose-lose proposition

Holy shit, I forgot that Surfer Blood was even a band, let alone this happened. I assumed they were touring in bizarro world with Tapes n Tapes and Clap Your Hands and some other oh-yeah bands.

Surfer Blood recently played a cafe here, so I don't know that you're far off

Blood Surfer would have been a much better name

yet another mistake for surfer blood

I never thought I'd see a Remy Shand song show up in the Tracks section on Pitchfork, and yet here we are.
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/15535-where-are-we-going/

Not that there's anything wrong with it, it's just weird.

nice "angle" you dicks (band and p4k) http://pitchfork.com/features/update/9129-surfer-blood/

You only have to scroll up literally 2 posts to see a lengthy discussion of that article fyi

sorry, was posting from a phone and didn't check previous posts.

thought Paul Thompson wrote a pretty excellent review of the new Surfer Blood, touching on that stuff in the right way:
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18123-surfer-blood-pythons/

by "that stuff" I mean an accusation of domestic abuse

wow he goes hard in that review

paul's a great writer

Haha "Gil Norton (Doolittle, Del Amitri)"

yeah i did a double-take at that

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18186-action-bronson-saab-stories/

constant misspelling of "saaab stories" as "saab stories," including in the URL. spellcheck's a bitch.

Looks like they've fixed it.

the dissolve (new film site) launches tmrw

Shouldn't discussions on The Dissolve be reserved for this topic.

"It should surprise exactly no-one that Honey Locust Honky Tonk is a good record: Even at his most unedited and undigested, Pollard’s music still displays a joy in its own resourcefulness, a contentment in its own faith in the power of rock and roll to define a life. In other words, every release is worth spinning at least once. But it should surprise everyone that Honey Locust Honky Tonk is a very good record, his best and most focused in quite some time"

me:" wow, it will probably get a score of at lease 8 point something"

but no, it's 7.4..

THANKS GUYS FOR THE ARTILE ABOUT BIRRTIOS
http://pitchfork.com/news/51489-you-probably-wont-hear-radiohead-playing-in-chipotle/

Radiohead fans might just have to seek refuge in Au Bon Pain.

I think that's kind of interesting.

Like it's neat that there's someone whose job it is to figure out what music will sound good in the acoustic environment of a particular restaurant.

Prep cooks usually get precedence over wait staff iirc

i was in a giant chipoltes downtown last week and they were playing the slits cover of 'heard it through the grapevine' which i thought was really funny because this dirtbag coffee shop/bar place that my friend works at, the owner asked her to take the slits off her work playlist because it alienated the customers

That sounds like best chipoltles ever

heard todd terje - inspector norse in a chipotle once and couldn't believe it

the chipotle in manhattan on 23rd and park plays better music than what i've heard at 80% of parties in my lifetime

What's up with Chipotle playing crazy good music? It seems at least somewhat consistent. I eat at Chipotle a lot and go to various locations around Los Angeles. They play from decent to really good music--of course, it's subjective, but I'm still pretty surprised. Who is selecting their music?

I almost made a thread on this but didn't. Don't know why.

you may want to read the article that literally everyone else posting on this thread right now is talking about

not me

That sounds like best chipoltles ever

― waterface, Friday, July 12, 2013 10:48 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I love it when people add an "s" to this name. I have a friend who insists on calling it "Chi-POLE-tees", as though it were the restaurant of a proprietor named Chipoltee -- no irony, he's just really bad at pronouncing things.

you may want to read the article that literally everyone else posting on this thread right now is talking about

― congratulations (n/a), Friday, July 12, 2013 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Argh! Thank you. Totally missed it. I have my CSS for this site off, so it reverts to the classic one, which I find difficult to parse various types of info on.

Christopher Golub, to answer my own question. Heehee! XD

Jesus. World's shortest 'article'.

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