Woodstock 50 Is Canceled, Unless It’s Not—Here’s Why
― omar little, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 20:49 (five years ago) link
I thought you were writing a joke clickhole parody title based on something on the site but turns out it does say that exactly
― Evan, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 21:57 (five years ago) link
that's a good headline
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 30 April 2019 22:07 (five years ago) link
Woodstock 50 Is Canceled, Unless It’s Not—Here’s Why (or Why Not, and That's Okay)
fixed
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 22:09 (five years ago) link
Pitchfork is finally covering the law of excluded middle.
― jmm, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 22:15 (five years ago) link
The Libertines’ Peter Doherty Hospitalized After Being Injured by a Hedgehog^now, that’s a good headline!
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 11:50 (five years ago) link
Quite the news cycle for hedgehogs
― mourning joe (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 12:27 (five years ago) link
There's a pretty hilarious piece of sponcon up today:
The Glorious Past and Promising Future of the RVSPONSOR CONTENT GO RVING
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― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, 7 May 2019 13:10 (five years ago) link
This has probably already been done, but why are the Isley Brothers headlining the P4K festival?
― Position Position, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 17:09 (five years ago) link
gotta get those R. Kelly songs in there somehow
― dragged across concrète (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 8 May 2019 17:16 (five years ago) link
lol
the thing about pfork fest compared to other festivals is that it's remained pretty small and accessible (hasn't moved off it's small-ish site on the west side in years) & as such legitimately serves a local audience. you'd be surprised by the number of ppl who live in chicago and show up to pfork fest w/o knowing that there's a music review site of the same name, or with only the vaguest idea, or have heard of the site but don't ever read it. further -- and this is just a hypothesis based on having attended the festival a few times incl the year r kelly played -- is that part of the legacy of pfork booking r kelly is that it opened the festival to an audience of local black residents, esp older black ppl who, again, broadly speaking likely have no idea what pitchfork.com is all about. i think you can see this reflected in recent bookings incl isely bros, chaka kahn, raphael saddiq etc.
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 8 May 2019 17:45 (five years ago) link
cuz funktimism!
― maffew12, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 17:53 (five years ago) link
Whether they're lip-syncing at this point is irrelevant— the Isley Brothers will be a good party. That's what matters at these outdoor festivals.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Wednesday, 8 May 2019 21:30 (five years ago) link
Chaka Khan was fucking great last year. No signs of slack. The Sunday-in-the-park crowd loved it and even the white people were, holy shit.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 May 2019 21:43 (five years ago) link
cosign on Chaka Khan absolutely *destroying* the Oakland Pride crowd almost ten years ago. never seen a more diverse, happy crowd just feeling ecstatic.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Wednesday, 8 May 2019 21:48 (five years ago) link
Looks like the Fork got all Sonic Youthed out overnight. I still don't understand the point of dishing out 9.8s.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 9 May 2019 08:14 (five years ago) link
I skimmed the EJST&NS piece — it’s all “historical context,” and says very little about the music.
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Thursday, 9 May 2019 15:14 (five years ago) link
Writing about music is hard.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 9 May 2019 15:15 (five years ago) link
there are all manner of guitars doing things that seemingly only Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo knew how to make them do. Buzz Bin-worthy single “Bull in the Heather” and “Skink” are Kim Gordon at her Kim Gordon-est
Lee and Thurston were doing Lee and Thurston stuff. Kim was being Kim. What more do you want? A sentence about Steve Shelley?
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Thursday, 9 May 2019 15:19 (five years ago) link
uh I thought "Bull in the Heather" did make Buzz Bin
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 9 May 2019 15:21 (five years ago) link
"Lee and Thurston were doing Lee and Thurston stuff. Kim was being Kim. What more do you want? A sentence about Steve Shelley?"
Ha ha ha ha
― does it look like i'm here (jon123), Thursday, 9 May 2019 15:40 (five years ago) link
steve shelley pounded his drums in trademark Steve Shelley-style
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Thursday, 9 May 2019 15:47 (five years ago) link
Kinda weird to me that in the review of Washing Machine there’s no mention of the title track, while “Junkie’s Promise” and a song from Dirty each get heir own paragraph.
Also - The song is sung by bass player Kim Gordon, who actually really speaks more than sings
― JoeStork, Thursday, 9 May 2019 18:56 (five years ago) link
Washing Machine review is painful. The album’s middle section is hit and miss, though the same could likely be said for all alternative rock records made in the mid-’90s
...On the other hand, reading a review of a guitar album written in this tone of clueless faux-professorial unearned authority on pitchfork dot com in 2019 makes me kind of nostalgic tbh
― One Eye Open, Thursday, 9 May 2019 19:25 (five years ago) link
well i recognize some of the bylines from way back but how many of these reviewers are writing about records older than themselves
― j., Thursday, 9 May 2019 20:26 (five years ago) link
On the sequel to last year’s Eat My Pussy, the Chicago rapper’s songwriting is at times more brazen and at others more introspective.
this reads like satire
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 10 May 2019 14:31 (five years ago) link
lol straight outta Fear of a Black Hat
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 10 May 2019 14:33 (five years ago) link
The first thing I thought of when I saw that review was that "King PU$$Y Eater revolutionizes our perception of bodies and spaces with his hit single "Goop on Ya Grinch" [7.6]" tweet.
― triggercut, Friday, 10 May 2019 14:42 (five years ago) link
I still don't understand the point of dishing out 9.8s.
Mathematical precision obv. Need more significant digits, though.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Friday, 10 May 2019 15:25 (five years ago) link
There is something kind of admirable about sincerely believing that the different in quality between Sister and Daydream Nation can be rendered as '0.2'. (Tbf it should be the other way around.)
― pomenitul, Friday, 10 May 2019 15:27 (five years ago) link
*the difference
.23, surely
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 10 May 2019 15:27 (five years ago) link
Needs more π.
― pomenitul, Friday, 10 May 2019 15:29 (five years ago) link
If you take a test and get one question wrong you get a 98. It’s possible to be nearly perfect but not perfect.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 10 May 2019 16:03 (five years ago) link
Do you hear albums that way?
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Friday, 10 May 2019 16:07 (five years ago) link
X got one question wrong on ‘Los Angeles’ and they got a B- and a stern essay on their permanent record
― dragged across concrète (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 10 May 2019 16:07 (five years ago) link
Sister doesn't have Lee Ranaldo yelling "kick it!"
therefore, 9.8
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Friday, 10 May 2019 16:09 (five years ago) link
I don't know if it's a common thing but when I was an undergrad you couldn't get more than an A in the humanities at my university because they deemed it impossible to objectively determine how much an essay deserves past a certain point. I still think it makes sense.
― pomenitul, Friday, 10 May 2019 16:09 (five years ago) link
we really need an additional decimal point here
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 10 May 2019 16:12 (five years ago) link
They should really get someone who has never heard of Sonic Youth to blind review these things.
― jmm, Friday, 10 May 2019 16:15 (five years ago) link
the tricky part is finding someone who has never heard of Sonic Youth but is also qualified to write music reviews
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Friday, 10 May 2019 16:19 (five years ago) link
qualified? qualified!? hey buddy don't get all conde nast on us
― j., Friday, 10 May 2019 16:29 (five years ago) link
yeah... thanks...yeah, we're going to need employees who haven't obtained their SY qualification certificate to go ahead and move down into the basement by end of day, yeah, it's only temporary until the certificate program is completed and verified by HR, thanks...
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Friday, 10 May 2019 16:37 (five years ago) link
Like a young person who is very interested in audio sensations from sound waves. Wish there was a name for that
― Evan, Friday, 10 May 2019 16:46 (five years ago) link
"hipster"
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 10 May 2019 16:50 (five years ago) link
You could also hire a jazz/classical gatekeeper to do it. Chances are he (yes, he) has never knowingly heard Sonic Youth.
― pomenitul, Friday, 10 May 2019 16:52 (five years ago) link
Lol, Evan
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Friday, 10 May 2019 16:54 (five years ago) link
that's a pretty cool concept, but if i'm honest with myself, the historical/cultural context is most of the reason i read those reviews. and some reviewer coming into it blind isn't gonna be able to offer anything on that front.
― enochroot, Friday, 10 May 2019 20:09 (five years ago) link
"Sonic Youth? But these guys are old. Must be some of that 90's 'irony.'"
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 10 May 2019 20:28 (five years ago) link
Looks like there are a lot of SY reaction videos on YouTube. Whether they are good/qualified, idk.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Friday, 10 May 2019 20:33 (five years ago) link