Anticipate Pitchfork.tv

within a year it'll all be indie reality shows. "america's next scarf," with colin meloy and wes anderson.

please be kidding

LOL. "Pimp My Latte" hosted by The Shins and "Your Loud Voice Is Oppressive; Please Stop Oppressing Me," hosted by Sufjan Stevens.

Nooooooooooooo...

i think this seems pretty cool tbh. i mean, if you don't like the music pitchfork covers and/or the site in general is it really any skin off your back? it makes tons of sense that they would start doing this instead of linking away from their site to other people that do. def. looking forward to it.

will there be a day in the life of the clipse one where the p4k news team learns to cook crack?

Yeah. I was kidding above. I think it could be good. Look, they'll feature concert films, music DVDs, and videos from independent artists, who don't get enough exposure from a good, central platform, despite the many different means of distributing their video work. I want to see it.

I still want them to do a show called "Your Loud Voice Is Oppressive; Please Stop Oppressing Me," hosted by Sufjan Stevens. A daily video diary!

VICE'S TV DID SO WELL GUYS

Did it? It's still going, I suppose. That interview with Kevin Sheilds was pretty good.

vic e in north korea is funny

yeah, but who logs onto vice's website everyday?.
i guess the only answer to that would be "jerk off's"

will there be a day in the life of the clipse one where the p4k news team learns to cook crack?

apparently they're already smoking it; why else would they like Sufjan Stevens?

Yeah, I'm kind of looking forward to this too. If nothing else it'll be cool to tune in when there's nothing better to do to catch a few videos or something. I think the idea of doing one music movie/DVD a week is really cool too.

VICE'S TV DID SO WELL GUYS

they had a story on cnn

Vice TV has had some pretty cool features, aside from those videos of 20 year old Pratt chicks posing for nude photos for all the coke they can fit in one nostril.

Schedule Announced! Excitement is building!

(Actually, sarcasm aside, I think this could be good.)

FRI APRIL 11

Robyn // Interview
The Swedish pop singer's self-titled album is finally due in the U.S., three years after being released in her homeland. Pitchfork writer [nabisco] [.] speaks with her about her new plans for North America.

oh lol, now random googlers will know who nabisco is! oh well.

omg vice.tv is the best place u ass faces

watch this amazing thing abt homeless kids living in the sewers of bogota

The feature about the Colombian zombie coke stuff was neat too. The loco dealer was the real life version of the dude from Preator 2 who's all like 'the SCORPION is readyyy'

vice news features r indeed rad but too long. get one editor.

If people think the reviews and features are too long, can video of same change their minds?

Needs a "The Springer Hustle" style behind-the-scenes at Pitchfork reality show.

(fwiw - we're doing a thing at arthur world service dot com)

So the quality of the video is pretty impressive. Also, I like the functionality, user control, and easy navigation. I do miss "VJs," like from the old MTV days, but that's a minor gripe.

the liars performances are pretty damn nice.
also, thom yorke on drums!

did liars just do some weird cover that i would find intersting?

it it me or is the interface really cool?

on the pitchfork thing? no.
i have a bootleg somewhere, where they play "territorial pissings"

I swear I saw some o_O liars thing somewhere recently

the size of these videos is tiny. the size of the radiohead one is like 12 meg. and it looks damn good.

it it me or is the interface really cool?

Yeah. I like how the background stuff zips by as you click new options on the top bar (e.g., "News," "Music Videos," "Live Performances").

I was trying to find this thread earlier to complain about the really choppy video. Even when I paused and let it load the full video (any video), upon hitting play it was like a slideshow.

Then I went back to it later in the evening and it played just fine. People give Pitchfork a lot of shit, but this I think this is really cool, a good idea and executed well.

I like this. I really enjoyed the Jay Reatard clips.

There's some program featuring A Place To Bury Strangers starting later this week that also look interesting. Concert footage, maybe? Anyway, so far this Pitchfork.tv thing looks aces.

also much credit deserved for sound quality. I can't believe I didn't go to that (or any) Jay Reatard show.

I like it.

thank god. It's really hard to find music or music videos on the internet.

I heart this pitchfork site. The inteface is awesome yeh (I was scared that when I clicked on the news/this week only/contacts tab that the video would stop, and was pleasently surprised when it didn't) and the content looks terrific. No it's nothing particularly new, but if the content volume/quality is kep[t as high as it is at the moment then I can only see good things for it.

A lot of the links for music videos are mixed up a bit, especially as I scroll down further on the list of however many videos. Minor complaint, though, as I'd expect it to be somewhat buggy at this point. Watched the Pixies documentary last night (amidst working on mindless college work) and found it rather dull, to be honest. The documentary was all band footage, told nothing about why the Pixies were important and/or revolutionary and/or unique, why I should care that they got back together, etc. (And obviously, I didn't need to know those things as a big fan, but I can't see how the doc. would appeal to someone who isn't already familiar with everything Pixies related.)

Brought back some memories though, having seen the reunion tour twice myself.

those 'audition tapes' are pretty dumb

so that's what her out of the chromatics looks like...

I'd imagine that if you read Pitchfork, you're gonna have a reasonable idea as to who the pixies are.

But for people who are just into film, not necessarily the Pixies, it's a terrible documentary -- no interviews or information from anyone but the band members themselves, and even then, it's all smoke and mirrors. The impression I get is that Kim and David have drug addictions and Joey has a child, so they do the reunion tour for the money, and Frank's just along for the ride. There is plenty of support for this in the doc, and nothing to suggest otherwise.

i'm interested in it because it's a band documentary, but i have basically never listened to the pixies.

I quite like the Pixies when they bring teh melodies so I'll give the doc a listen tomorrow while I'm doing my ironing. I'm less excited about it now tho!

The impression I get is that Kim and David have drug addictions and Joey has a child, so they do the reunion tour for the money, and Frank's just along for the ride. There is plenty of support for this in the doc, and nothing to suggest otherwise.

What's wrong with that impression?

It's not supposed to be a documentary detailing the rise and fall of the Pixies from day one until now. It's a film about a single tour, in 2004, and it is awesome for that.

xpost: I'll grant that it's a fine reason to reunite, but it's not the sort of reason that merits a documentary on the reunion tour.

dudes next time you have a "secret session" of a band playing new versions of songs with classically trained musicians remember not to put some boring rote interview over the top of it thx

Click "next video," Jordan! There are three chapters of the performances themselves.

i have vampire weekend even more, now that i know what dude's face looks like. the entire band look and sound like they're mother is a gap ad.

I think I'd probably hate them if they looked like your typical indie band, but the preppiness allows me to think they're okay.

*hate

oh thx nabisco.i was looking for some type of arrow or something. i must've missed it

While I'm not holding out for anything really worth watching, anything that can't surpass Vice in quality should be destroyed and never spoken of again.

when you're watching the vid there is no "next video" option-- it doesn't appear until you are watching an individual song xpost to myself

the vid= the interview

these are great-- best thing on pitchfork tv so far

these don't make me like this band any more, at all. i'm half-watching the Air documentary and that's pretty good, though.

yeah i can't imagine that they'd really change anyone's opinion about them, but if you already actively like the songs it's nice to hear the strings brought out and things like that

http://i27.tinypic.com/2nkjbzs.jpg

Apropos of nothing, but I think Pitchfork.tv has some good stuff available this week, e.g., some pretty interesting clips from the 2007 Pitchfork music festival and this "Athens, Ga: Inside and Out" film about the city's music scene.

our new performance series set in a chapel in the middle of a Brooklyn graveyard

if this one doesn't have performances from black kids, tapes n tapes, tokyo police club, clap your hands say yeah etc then i think p4k tv should just be shut down

(do u see what i did there?)

those are actually all the same band right

at the bottom of an abandoned mine shaft, using only an old Casio, Neon Indian covers Toro Y Moi covering Beach House -- debuting next Monday