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-al, suddenly not so proud to be from Baltimore

But they are pretty fuckin' funny.

super proud to be from Baltimore!-

the hype master

when was the last time the "most read reviews" section was updated? as is, it seems like ricardo villalobos and jose gonazales have been dominating the review readers' interest for about a year or more...

there's gotta be some crazy ass google action goin' on with "senor smoke."

If you'll notice, it's anyone with diacritical marks in their name.

there's some really old, terrible reviews on that site. probably time to get rid of everything pre-99 or something.

I think this one kinda takes the biscuit

wrong/crap in just about every way imaginable

At least it's not 1,000 words?

i think that wisdom guy's responsible for the 'fantastic' zaireeka review

i have a soft spot for this one:

http://pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/22068-tiny-music

bad reviews that are short irritate me MORE, somehow, than bad reviews that at least go into some depth.

This one will always have a special place in my heart.

Well, duh. Sorry to go monosyllabic, but... well, duh

Guy just blathers on about how much of a prick he is for 700 words, then reviews the album for maybe 500. Prick.

that's the dude who gave 0 to zaireeka, actually

talk about an about face!!!!@@!!!

This thread is making me feel old. I feel like I'm thinking in dial-up.

His review of Dark Magus starts out thusly: "Good old Japan. We bomb them, so they horde this Miles Davis gem, out of print for ages in the U.S." wtf?

errr :x

wow

How on earth did nobody come to edit out the first ten-odd paragraphs of that Soft Bulletin review? When good men do nothing etc

Meanwhile, Idolator just posted a little story...

so much ugh

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/22716-split-personalities

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/22719-gay

Hey guys, did you hear Ryan wasn't a very good writer when he was 19?

meanwhile
http://idolator.com/tunes/more-songs-about-buildings-and-traffic/brooklyn-academy-of-music-to-new-york-city-no-sufjan-no-credibility-264802.php

Someone needs to give that High Strung guy a smack around the chops. Although I do like the idea of eschewing one's lips.

Hey guys, did you hear Ryan wasn't a very good writer when he was 19?

fixed

I'm looking forward to his eventual equivalent of Jann S. Wenner's Goddess In The Doorway review, though.

I thought that's what the 12 Rods review was.

293 Views

Yeah, maybe Idolator should hide evidence of the number of readers they're getting.

Paul Banks
Living In The Moment
(Interscope/Starbucks, 2029)
[9.6]

I think all Gawker sites do that. And if Idolator gets significantly less hits than the other ones, that at least reinforces whole "music is by far the lowest rung on the pop culture ladder" thesis they're always hammering home. (xpost)

Paul Banks
Living In The Moment
(Interscope/Starbucks, 2029)
[9.6]

by 2029 this will be the entirety of the review

"Well, don't want to sound like a dick or nothin', but, ah... it says on this website that this record's fucked up. Ah, he sings like a fag, and his shit's all retarded."

when was the last time the "most read reviews" section was updated? as is, it seems like ricardo villalobos and jose gonazales have been dominating the review readers' interest for about a year or more...

I've accidentally bought that Ricardo Villalobos album five times now because of this.

Pfork gets a lot of traffic off google searches for obscure foreign bands, like ~ (Portuguese grime), é (Geneva twee scene), č (Latvian punk underground), ö (Magyar trance), and ť (Czech psych).

ysi

(Magyar trance)

:-O

(hi dom! all our traffic stats are public, but thanks for your concern)

pwned

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/

am i the only getting a 404/nginx/0.5.17 message ?

Not surprised or anything, but gotta love how interviewer Brandon Stosuy = "Pitchfork."

That guy pretending he's taking bong hits makes an excellent point: people do sell goods and services for money

http://www.timeoutchicago.com/things-to-do/chicago-blog/16207951/pitchfork-starting-movie-website-pitchfilm-com

the "let's determine the name" meeting was on a friday at 4:58 apparently

it was neck and neck with moviesfork

So hey, from the American Society of Magazine Editors' Ellies awards:

https://twitter.com/ASME1963/status/330116705797955584

General Excellence, Digital Media goes to @PitchforkMedia!

https://twitter.com/garyvee/status/332324192483680257

What the shit, who is this guy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Vaynerchuk

i like him

and an author and public speaker on the subjects of social media, brand building and e-commerce

[insert canks thumbs up emoticon here]

Gary Vaynerchuk's 101 Wines: Guaranteed to Inspire, Delight, and Bring Thunder to Your World (2008)
Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion (2009)
The Thank You Economy (2011)
Jab, Jab, Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook (2013)

Pitchfork style:

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2013/06/26/at-pitchfork-office-style-goes-formal-only-one-day-a-year/tab/interactive/

https://twitter.com/ZombyMusic/status/351754780122693633

https://twitter.com/ZombyMusic

Michael Renaud needs to have words with whoever did the wallpapering ...

not exactly sure what he's ranting on about, but i definitely noticed the drukqs influence on his new record

he deleted hte tweets lol

why

if someone at pfm is reading this thread, can you get us an rss feed for "the pitch"?

wait, i think i figured it out based on yr other rss feeds

http://pitchfork.com/rss/thepitch/

jfuckinc, isn't there such a thing as too much content?

Probably so, but since I ignore a good half of what they have on offer, The Pitch seems like something they should've done and prioritized a long time ago.

lol, still no comments allowed?

I love that every time they make a point of bringing back the mailbag feature, they do about one column of answers (maybe two) and then it goes away until the next time it's launched.

No comments is always the correct decision

^^^

yup

always

ilx inclusive

no comment

“It’s a crowd that doesn’t care. I don’t mean they don’t care in they don’t take issues of sexual violence seriously,” Neal said. “But that’s not their relationship with R. Kelly, opposed to black audiences who are conflicted about him but who have also been following him for 20 years. Pitchfork’s audience is a bunch of hipsters who have no idea who Aaliyah is.”

http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/music/21360770-421/r-kelly-believes-he-can-fly.html

Pitchfork’s audience is a bunch of hipsters who have no idea who Aaliyah is.”

Them's fightin' words!

maybe younger kids but i was watching "are you that somebody" on mtv in 1998 or whenever that video was on.

i knew who she was before i knew what pitchfork was

same here

hipsters not knowing -- or caring -- who aaliyah was might have been true.... maybe 5 years ago

How about hipsters not knowing what Pitchfork is?

Why more then than now? Shouldn't it be opposite?

xp

DeRo is going nuts about this R. Kelly thing. Just check his blog, pretty much every recent entry is about it:

http://www.wbez.org/blogs/jim-derogatis

aaliyah is total hipster canon.

Pitchfork’s audience is a bunch of hipsters who have no idea who Aaliyah iscan't name any deep Brandy album cuts.

off the top of my head, the only brandy song period i can name is "that boy is mind," a song i also experienced via mtv

boy is mine obv

they played the shit out of that

Why more then than now? Shouldn't it be opposite?

If the majority of festival attendees in any given year are in their 20s (a reasonable assumption, I think), the 20-something Pitchfork hipsters of 2013 are likelier to have experienced Aaliyah as a childhood radio staple than the 20-something Pitchfork hipsters of 2008, the older ones of which may have already abandoned top-40 radio for less-mainstream fare by the time Aaliyah became popular. (Raises hand.)

Also, Aaliyah seems to be trendier than she was 5 years ago, with various strains of "hipster R&B" citing her as an influence and last year's Katy B/Jessie Ware song "Aaliyah" getting Pitchfork props. (Not to mention her music recently being coopted by mainstream artists such as Drake and Chris Brown in obvious bids for coolness.)

Yeah, XX all up in that.

Oh yeah.