Pitchfork Reviews Come to ABC News!

And with its selections, Pfork's sounding more and more like NPR lately...

ABC News has launched a new series on its website called "New Music Monday", and they've invited Pitchfork to be a part of it. Pitchfork writers will appear regularly in the series, chatting about notable albums they have recently reviewed. So far, ABC has featured Amanda Petrusich talking about Bon Iver's Blood Bank EP, Marc Hogan reviewing M. Ward's Hold Time, and Joe Tangari on Andrew Bird's Noble Beast. And, to kick the whole series off, Ryan Schreiber profiled five albums he was looking forward to in 2009.

Stay tuned to the ABC News website for more. And who knows, maybe you'll bump into Charles Gibson in the pit at the Wavves show one of these days.
Posted by Pitchfork Staff on Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 6:50pm

Is the End of Indie nigh? Oh, I'll leave that schtick for HRO. Let's see Carles take on it.

"hot album" lols

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=6630685#

Great start to the thread already!

lol:

"Hi I'm Ryan Scheiber, the founder of Pitchforkmedia.com - BLOOOO BLOP BLEEE BLOOOP"

i'll send mild props to a national newscast for attempting to expose olds to some music they wouldn't have heard about otherwise.

but poor charles gibson had to say "hot albums"

maybe they're attempting to rope in news

abcebe news

but poor charles gibson had to say "hot albums"

totally brought the lulz

haha as did this

"Hi I'm Ryan Scheiber, the founder of Pitchforkmedia.com - BLOOOO BLOP BLEEE BLOOOP"

i'll send mild props to a national newscast for attempting to expose olds to some music they wouldn't have heard about otherwise.

Exactly -- and you can tell it's for "olds" by the weekly selections! No idea why kids like this stuff...

he called wavves "experimental", i guess maybe he meant experimenting with ripping off the whole stiltbreeze thing

maybe a little symbolic of the bigger picture, hipsterness becoming a rather mainstream trend?

charles gibson calls it "pitchfork.com"

haha you see that a lot, actually - sometimes i feel it's a deliberate slight, but CG likely just suffers from a case of old

wow pitchfork.com actually redirects to pfork now lol

back when i wrote for them it was still a farming equipment site, no bullshit

he called wavves "experimental", i guess maybe he meant experimenting with ripping off the whole stiltbreeze thing

I want ABC News' website to broadcast someone talking about "that whole stiltbreeze thing"

You know its over when your friend's 55 year old mom in middle management starts telling you about this great new band called "the Spacemen 3".

What's next? Orangu-tans farting?

I think the ABC News thing would be more fun/funny if The Wire or Brainwashed or someplace were to do it instead.

only because that doesn't make such perfect sense

What happened to the farming equipment company? Did they get sued? Bought off?

Surely we've not changed as much as a society that Pitchfork is now more famous than actual pitchforks?

the old pitchfork.com was registered to Livestock World since 1995. It almost makes me want to send them fake irate letters from livestock world customers.

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abcebe news

hueg lolz

did not realise that ryan schreiber looked like such a douche, just thought he wrote like one.

That's nothing—the new centerpiece of CBS's 60 Minutes is Termbo talking up 7"s that have already sold out of their pressings.

The lead-in is Andy Rooney giving a rambling rant about proper vinyl care.

i wonder if gibson had an o reilly style meltdown when rehearsing the hot albums line - "HOT WHAT? HOT ALBUMS? I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS! FUCK IT WE'LL DO IT LIVE!"

No, he was just thinking, "Thank God kids still listen to albums. I'm not so old."

i wonder what gibson's thoughts were as he played out merriweather post pavillion while reading the stimulus bill

Gibson's thinking "I wish Air France would get more hype than they do"

tbf, as someone who has been forced to do podcasts and such, it's basically impossible to do something like this and not sound like the drippiest douche imo

yeah, but tbf, it's possible to have less poodley hair.

tbf, as someone who has been forced to do podcasts

Rape isn't what it used to be.

shit, I remember when indie rock as just me and my sebadoh albums plus my friend's weed...NO ONE in my high school besides her knew what indie rock was

i'm really sorry if this is ruining ABC News for you guys.

i wonder if gibson had an o reilly style meltdown when rehearsing the hot albums line - "HOT WHAT? HOT ALBUMS? I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS! FUCK IT WE'LL DO IT LIVE!"

― big fatass rick ross (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, February 18, 2009 1:29 AM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark

Of Montreal? What does that MEAN Of Montreal? WHAT is Of Montreal?

did not realise that ryan schreiber looked like such a douche, just thought he wrote like one.

― Plaxico (I know, right?), Tuesday, February 17, 2009 8:03 PM (1 hour ago)

btw the pic i posted is not of ryan s. afaik

xpost hoos i wish more people got of montreal too, tbcfh

anyway some good lols in this thread so far keep it up guys

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"I'm trying to understand, Mr...Fleet? Fox? Tell us how you captured the heart of Starbucks youth culture."

Wait till David Brooks of the NY Times sees this. Bobos in Paradise 2-Indie-rock Brooklyn and how Republican must reach out to them...

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/images/2008/04/17/charles_gibson_george_stephanopoulo.jpg

"And, Charlie, it really is extraordinary what Ryan Schreiber's done. Not even a threat from his right flank from Ross Perot put a stop to his masterful campaign."

An excellent essay could be written about how this decade has been an era where information has been so accessible that anybody could try to pass themselves off as a member of the progressive/hipster/nerd/whatever intelligentsia. The parody would go that countless people now believe that because they own an Apple computer, listen to "indie music," drink their coffee at Starbucks (or, alternatively, would never drink their coffee at Starbucks), and voted for Obama that they're a card-carrying member of some sort of modern day Bloomsbury group. It's that easy!

It's reminiscent of the part of the Bell Curve where they talked about how, in the near future, people would try to distance and segregate themselves using intelligence (as opposed to religion, income, race etc etc). As we snicker at how people used to condescend to others based on old-fashioned notions of status we, as a society, sure do spend a lot of time trying to prove how we "get it" and are "with it" - to the point where major news programs now cater like this. It's symbolic of this much larger trend, I think.

Bobos in Paradise 2-Indie-rock Brooklyn and how Republican must reach out to them...

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, February 17, 2009 10:31 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Bonobos in Paneradise?

I don't really know what that means it just came to be.

symbolic of a larger trend of cunga posts where he comes off like a racist, professorial burt_stanton

haha what? Is that for mentioning the book the Bell Curve?

anyway, cunga, that doesn't really seem like a "this decade" thing, tho it's clearly reached it's (current) apotheosis circa now, what with all the internetting and ipodding of the downloads and such. i mean, 60s mainstreamed the beatnik boho hippie thing, turned it into a pseudo-revolutionary fashion choice. 70s blew the same out of countercultural youth movement circles, gave it place in suburban living rooms & "lifestyles". 80s = mtv selling kids the idea that they were all hip, cool, insiders by right of birth & culture. 90s extreme alternaculture = the rubber hitting the road on that 80s salesmanship, whole marketing/advertising/culture industry suddenly stepping up its game by orders of magnitude to meet the new challenges. 00s = that plus viral blah-de-blah and the idea of universal hipsterness becoming so socially ingrained as to be essentially invisible. i.e., what you're talking about isn't anything new, and this isn't an example of a major news program catering to people's bogus sense of "with-it-ness" so much as the inevitable result of computer screen thingy in ur room.

It is a continuation of the kind of things you talked about (I was going to mention the mainstreaming of counter-cultural attitudes and symbols in the 1960s as a parallel). What separates this decade from what's come before, in my opinion, is that the cost of entering so many subcultures has become lowered thanks to the internet. Even the most square of people thinks he's got his ear to the underground - and why shouldn't he, to a degree? It's not too difficult. It's just funny because words like hipster and nerd become even more formless, though we still cling to them like they still mean something very tangible.

But I do think this PFM on ABC idea grew out of a "Hey, let's ask our youthful intern how can we get the kind of people who are a MAC - from those MAC or PC commercials - to watch network news again."-type of boardroom discussions.

when they came for the outsider artists I said nothing

Devoting yourself to anything to the extent that someone sees fit to interview you about it is usually pretty nerdy, in the grand scheme of things

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yeah but these were just about all good lucking, reasonably successful freelance artists who had a good idea and stuck with it rather than wheezing bags of acne and physics books. eing an artist is just about as cool as it gets so are on the other side of the scale

my spelling and syntax is a joke today.

*are

i personally look forward to the day when we all can be american apparel models and get free oral sex

being an artist is just about as cool as it gets so are on the other side of the scale

Leaving aside the vast, doubtless majority-forming swathe of society that would more readily consider them shiftless, jumped-up wankers with no grasp of the real world, that is

x-post totally, their lifestyle seems really rad, all smiling and hey fuck it this polo neck would totally look good on your gf too

until u go to LA u imagine that life there is basically being an american apparel model in your skimpy retro terrycloth shorts all pansexual cocaine orgies and terry richardson taggin u on facebook the next day with ur face all up in some titties--and then u get there and u spend all ur time at leos taco truck waiting for the 19 yr old aa clerk u met at in n out to call u and then she txts u "sry not going out 2nite" and u go home to play smash bros

u met at in n out to call u

n/l

totally thought 'Come to ABC News!' was some twee band that was going to be #1 on Insound's sales chart by next week

Is max the Hipster Runoff dude? I'm white, btw.

how he finds time to do that blog as well as fever ray artwork i don't know

no im jhøshea--WITH ATTITUDE

im burt_stanton

im just so rich and good-looking

btw i'm burt_stanton

im and what (and gr8080 but i forgot my login)

thats okay its just iamburt_stanton @ gmail.com password: hipsterjeans

wait, you people still read pfork?

my friend from college updated his fb status recently to:
"---- thinks indie rock is in a slump."

and i was like: "WHERE THE FUCK YOU BEEN SINCE 2004 IDIOTBAG"

i dunno, Idiotbag's new EP is pretty sweet. I dig their new direction

wait wait wait wait wait wait wait.........

you people

still

read pitchfork?!?!?!?!?!

idiot bag has a new ep! havent heard anything from them since 04!

yah it's pretty sweet

and i was like: "WHERE THE FUCK YOU BEEN SINCE 2004 IDIOTBAG"

it's almost you've been a completely different person with different opinions and perceptions than me since 2004

IDIOTBAG

where have ya gone
indie band idiotbag
a nation of hipsters
wants to smoke dope with you

woo woo woo

just as an fyi for anyone taking notes--i NEVER read pitchfork--i am at least six levels of cool above the average pitchfork reader--it would be like if i wore american apparel, or (LOL!) grew a beard

i often like to read the stuff written by ilm peoples past and present

I'd love to see Pitchfork reviews on ABC but only if they're delivered by retired Los Angeles news weathermen.

"Up next, the legend himself, Doctor George Fischbeck on Santagold!"

"And Dallas Raines drops us his thoughts on Blood Bank."

is someone going to start the idiotbag c or d thread?

Well, they weren't exactly Dreamboat Gorilla.

Poppa's Got A Brand New Idiot Bag

Truthfully, Idiotbag would have been a lot better if they'd hadn't spent three straight albums regurgitating their Warp label intake.

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*with

The politics of idiotbags

Iiiiiiiiidiotbag...blowin' like a hipster on tv

lol i cant believe people do stuff they enjoy.. its like get over yourselves

lol whiney

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BIG HOOS aka the steendriver:
It's Gotta Be
[ILM; 2009]
Rating: 6.8

Excellent point. It's something weird I've noticed where it seems like every interview I see nowadays with young people (and I'm in my early 20s as well) involves someone claiming they're a nerd - and not just any nerd, but a serious, socially alienating one, or something like that. The self-description of "nerdy" (which you should read as brainy) seems to really just be a form of false humility - like denunciations of hipsterism, as you mentioned, usually reek of "hipper-than-thou" condescension.

Why are they being interviewed? Who is interviewing them? Are these interviews with young people who live in poor areas who caught a stray bullet? Are these interviews with young people affected by US immigration policy? Or are these interviews in publications where this "nerdiness" is prized and these people could just be espousing the fashionable identity aspirations? Is "nerdiness" the new existential angst? I'm in my mid-30s.

I've noticed the self-proclaimed nerdiness, too, and I don't think it translates to "brainy." I think it translates to something closer to focusing on trivia, details, a comprehensive knowledge of names and dates or something. I don't see intellectualism in it. I see it as a product of the previously mentioned "computer screen thingy in ur room." The computer screen thingy means one can spend a relatively small amount of time downloading every album and song by whomever, fosters a completist mentality, though more breadth than depth.

On the other hand you can look at it from the perspective of the 80s/early 90s, where young people spending lots of time on computers, and into Lord of the Rings and the subject matter found in Harry Potter would be seriously nerdy.

shoulda called the debut "can i just" imo
xpost

Video: Neko Case: Stephen M. Deusner reviews Middle Cyclone on ABC News

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=6992058

where have ya gone
indie band idiotbag
a nation of hipsters
wants to smoke dope with you

woo woo woo

― Mr. Que, Wednesday, February 18, 2009 5:05 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink