pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

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

Can't wait to masturbate using this

would totally read this tbh

went to the pitchfork review site and also saw they have an except from a new book about the birth of delicious vinyl and LA hip hop! i'm kinda excited about this actually

never forget
http://www.abebooks.com/Thesaurus-Musicarum-Pitchfork-Year-Music-2003/4054820856/bd

i did, in fact, forget about that, but someone just reminded me of it

I've got one on my shelf... is it collectible yet???

"5 Used from US $ 9.00"
sooooo.... yes it is collectible

I tried to find my copy but gave up after 30 seconds. It's around somewhere, evidence of my lost innocence.

I read they are asking everyone who buys it to wear costumes or formal dress.

Wax your handlebar mustaches boys! We're gonna buy a pitchfork magazine.

Please wear your best old western saloon keeper's outfit to checkout

"the pitchfork review" sounds like what it would be called in a new yorker cartoon or something

They should publish a print version of Pitchfork Reviews Reviews called the Pitchfork Reviews Reviews Review.

hey dawg we heard you liked

pretty sure that was the zine

otm

Maybe 3 years ago I looked at ILM every day when I woke up and I used to say to myself that any day when this thread was not bumped + I did not have blood in my urine was a good day.

the entire thread would read differently if the subject line was just changed to "pitchfork wisdom (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)"

yes, and I would probably live about four months longer

It begins with Push the Sky Away’s hazy-headed pocket history of modern civilization, “Higgs Boson Blues”, whose Miley Cyrus name-drops elicit audible giggles from the studio attendees. Its appearance here underscores just how perfectly Cave predicted her year, with the line “Hannah Montana/ Does the African Savannah” standing as an almost biblical prophecy of twerk-gate.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm nah

almost biblical, you say

the twerking is like the twerking of Miley the daughter of Billy; for she twerketh furiously

People who miss the point on this cover by designer Jonathan Barnbrook are likely reading into it too much. If slapping a boring square on the iconic Heroes cover seems lazy, think about our age of appropriation on Tumblr as well as where every image came from first. Then think about how many cultural icons are left that have been able to make meaningful art in both of those eras.

our age of appropriation : where every image came from = 2013 : the 70s

So Pitchfork is having their Reader's Choice Poll, and once again they have it that when you start typing in letters it'll give you suggestions for albums/tracks that were covered by Pitchfork within the past year.

Except for the "Best New Artist" category which seems to list every single band reviewed by the site in its history, regardless of the artist being new to 2013.

So of course I voted for Paul McCartney on that one.

i mean...it's just an autocomplete suggestion thing, it's not like they actually put Paul McCartney in the "best new artist" category. but hey, WHAT A GAFFE!

That should show them for not optimizing your experience when voting in the PITCHFORK READERS POLL

I just found the auto complete for that section amusing. Plus I was actually hoping that it would only have 2013 artists, then it would make choosing less difficult. And it also annoyed me a bit that there was no auto complete for best music video cause my mind was drawing blanks for that.

Also I like terrible puns.

I hate filling out the second part with all the personal info. I just realized I'm an alcoholic who never leaves the house.

auto-complete for Best New Artist should draw from artists created in our database since Nov. 2012 (which won't be perfect since some older artists were created since then).

not just spit, but "hooker spit," which should give you a window into the tension, claustrophobia, and foulness that infect Morelli's music.

Jamie Stewart is angry https://twitter.com/XiuXiuforLife/status/410659620605001728

daffy cunt prob my favorite disney character, but there really are so many

jfc daffy duck is not even disney, i should go to sleep

I like the idea of a pissed-off tweet by Jamie Stewart about a review leading you down a Daffy Duck Wikipedia hole.

he would find ways to circumvent twitter's limitations and find modes of expression to suit his tweet, no doubt

The Lucksmiths -- Cartography for Beginners: A Best of the Lucksmiths

...wry lyrics about various shades of emotional ache, featuring the kind of wordplay that tends to come from people who can both define "zeugma" and provide an example

Yes! Spot on. I love it.

("I can't see the florist for the flowers/ And I can't see the point in hanging 'round.")

What? No, terrible example. You've ruined it. Totally ruined. Now this is some motherfucking zeugma:

Though you kept me guessing and your distance
Were it not for my persistence
We would never have been lovers
You kept your distance and me guessing
Finally acquiescing only after I’d discovered
You kept the things I sent you
The lengths I went to