pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

the walt mink thing (which i agree w/dan they had peaked by that album anyway) is a little more explainable given he was in mpls at that time and if you saw them live in a club they could really tear your head off...in no small part to having one of probably the best rock drummers in the world in a setting where he could really go off (as opposed to his stints with beck, REM, and elliot smith)...so i could see being a little more hyped on them than ppl from the outside would be

yeah they purged stuff earlier than 1999

xp

the purge was especially annoying when that "The People's List" pool of nominations/suggestions was drawn from albums reviewed in their archive and the 90s selections were ridiculously thin compared to the 2000s stuff

I just remember jjj playing Miss Happiness for me and me sitting there slack-jawed going "uh HOLY SHIT this is great" and him replying "you should see them live, it will DESTROY you"

I tried really hard to make Walt Mink into a thing during college but no one who wasn't from MN seemed to care ;_;

i never got to see them at the old 400 Bar before the took the wall out and made it twice as big, i guess those shows were supposed to be pretty nuts

the first time I saw them was... two years ago at T.T. the Bear's ;_; but they were still awesome ^_^

!!!

http://www.factmag.com/2013/11/21/pitchfork-to-launch-print-magazine-the-pitchfork-review/

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Single copies will be available for $19.96, in a nod to Pitchfork’s founding year

Single copies will be available for $19.96, in a nod to Pitchfork’s founding yearSingle copies will be available for $19.96, in a nod to Pitchfork’s founding yearSingle copies will be available for $19.96, in a nod to Pitchfork’s founding yearSingle copies will be available for $19.96, in a nod to Pitchfork’s founding yearSingle copies will be available for $19.96, in a nod to Pitchfork’s founding yearSingle copies will be available for $19.96, in a nod to Pitchfork’s founding yearSingle copies will be available for $19.96, in a nod to Pitchfork’s founding yearSingle copies will be available for $19.96, in a nod to Pitchfork’s founding yearSingle copies will be available for $19.96, in a nod to Pitchfork’s founding yearSingle copies will be available for $19.96, in a nod to Pitchfork’s founding yearSingle copies will be available for $19.96, in a nod to Pitchfork’s founding yearSingle copies will be available for $19.96, in a nod to Pitchfork’s founding yearSingle copies will be available for $19.96, in a nod to Pitchfork’s founding yearSingle copies will be available for $19.96, in a nod to Pitchfork’s founding yearSingle copies will be available for $19.96, in a nod to Pitchfork’s founding yearSingle copies will be available for $19.96, in a nod to Pitchfork’s founding yearSingle copies will be available for $19.96, in a nod to Pitchfork’s founding yearSingle copies will be available for $19.96, in a nod to Pitchfork’s founding year

http://i.imgur.com/D8If35u.png

A very depressing picture to look at

the face of indie music

For an internet forum populated by pitchfork writers, ilx sure hates pitchfork

The first issue includes pieces about Van Morrison, Otis Redding, a career-spanning piece on Glenn Danzig, and a feature on the history of the jukebox. There is also a retrospective on the glory days of the U.K. weekly music press by veteran English critic Simon Reynolds.

haha ahhh uh?

ilx hates a lot of things

How many pitchfork writers post here

well let's see, there's l0u1s jagg3r

https://www.google.com/search?q=lj+picthfork&oq=lj+picthfork&aqs=chrome..69i57.3402j0j7&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=122&ie=UTF-8

Huh

Tbh a magazine about Glenn Danzig and Van Morrison sounds pretty awesome

I like P4k's logic which is "Man lots of people are buying vinyl these days let's publish something that isn't vinyl and cash in on those vinyl sales"

sounds like mojo tbh

yeah was going to say, they've obviously noticed that the only magazines still selling are Mojo/Classic Rock/etc

You can let silly facts get in the way of seeing Direct Hits as one of the most hotly anticipated records of the past 10 years.

maybe they should put out a vinyl record of their writers reading an article and include a free download of a magazine

Even more damning is that most of the songs on Direct Hits stopped becoming hits.

I think it could work, as long as they have reasonable expectations for circulation.

The price is a bit weird...

They can probably do a lot of "added value" bundling of site and mag ads too

Taking a look at the webpage for Monocle I don't see much content overlap

But I could see somebody who buys wallpaper or n+1 buying a p4k magazine

Tbf they'd probably take the $19.96 and buy the Arcade Fire on vinyl instead

wondering if this might be similar in execution to that longform 'journal' thing Loops from a few years back, which cost roughly the same (£13 in the UK iirc), also had SR writing stuff for it, and sold about five copies

Man that jukebox article that I could read on the preview is weak

Loops was wicked! Admittedly I only ever bought the issues when they were slashed to £3 in HMV etc but loads of great writing in 'em

this has to be someone's labor of love

probably Converse's sales team

j/k it looks very pretty!

lol u so catty

i don't really see this magazine thing working out in the long run

I see this magazine lasting as long as Altered Zones.

yeah, like isn't the thing with pitchfork that everybody reads it but nobody cops to reading it? how's that gonna square up with like, having it on your coffee table or reading it on the subway?

i like nice, printed magazines like the new arthur and yeti and the los angeles review of books ... i'm sure this will have some cool things in it. still, $20 is pretty pricey.

too pricey to take on the subway that's for sure

20$/y or 20$ per ish?

Single copies will be available for $19.96, in a nod to Pitchfork’s founding year

yea that's steep

but it's special paper!

You'll have to store it like you would a porn mag, essentially.

This seems more about "brand management" than about making money. Plus $1.996 would be too cheap.

Solidifying Pitchfork as "serious music journalism" basically.

so let's cut to the chase here, is it cool to pay 45/yr for a subscription to pfmag, like does it make you cool to do that.

If you want to be cool, I recommend constantly referring to "brand management" in scare quotes.

i do want to be cool particularly because it's important to my personal brand, which is why i have to carefully negotiate the value of brands before deciding to affix my brand to their brand