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Say what you will about Pitchfork, but it's a good resource and once you get the writer's tastes down, the rating system can help point you in a good direction. That rating system goes from 0 to 10, but has gone as low as, um, this.
Now the Pitchfork head honcho, Ryan Schreiber, has left the sites hometown of Chicago and moved to Park Slope. He'll be living amongst bands his site has championed (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, 9.0) and undoubtedly bands his site will trash in the future. As NY Mag put it, since Schreiber has mentioned keeping a low profile, New York bands will now "have their own Frank Bruni to nervously scan the crowd for".
For now the PItchfork Festival is staying in Chicago, but we wonder if we'll eventually see it move to Randall's, or Coney, Island.
Photo via NY Mag.
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By that first sentence aren't you admitting it's more important to like music that other people like than to experience music and form your own opinion?
That's kind of brave and sad revelation.
what a great non-story. thank you!
trees - rephrasing that now, as it's not how i meant it to come across. i was thinking more about how when you hear a single on the radio, or wherever, and you like it but aren't sure you want to commit to buying the entire album. sometimes if you read about it by a blog you trust - their descriptives can help you gauge if it may be something you are in to.
Say what you will about Pitchfork, that Jet review was dead-on.
what's this pitchfork everyone's talking about?
i wonder if loney, dear is every going to play coney, island
why do you need someone to confirm the music you like?
there are plenty of ways to discover music without reading about it on pitchfork, all you need is to open your ears and listen to it. if you like it, you like it. if not, you move on.
enough with pitchfork and the arcade fire. we get it, you love them. get off your knees already.
g, no one needs to confirm the music they like, i agree. i'm saying the site, like many websites/blogs, is a resource for people to hear about new music.
personally, i think pitchfork is often unbearably pretentious with reviewers doing more to satisfy their own urge to compose prose than provide any meaningful insight into the music they review.
however, they do provide a good overview of what's happening in the indie realm. to g's point, you can't listen to or buy it if you've never heard of it. like a good radio station, pitchfork provides a channel for discovery.
What the above said.
Except for a good laugh, Pitchfork Reviews are useless.
However, for keeping tabs on up and coming bands(both panned and beloved by the web publication), there's no better resource on the 'net.
Gothamist has got to stop promoting hipsterism.
they need to start promoting phrases like "hipsterism"
Pitchfork ain't that bad. Yes, their reviews are pretentious, but their news items are interesting enough... and there is some validity to their point system. Their year-end lists are not the worst either. There were at least 10 songs I found on their year-end list for last year that I would have never otherwise heard, and I bought albums because of it.
I don't mind them.
I'd rather use pitchfork as a means to filter music than bloggers who take a shotgun approach to distributing praise to every indie band on the planet.
Someone should just stick some kind of fork in Park Slope and declare it done already.
^Zing!
The Good Fork is in Red Hook, not Park Slope.
You might have been someone in chicago, ryan, but now you're just another dude with a beard and a bad shirt in williamsburg.
Once again Billyburg hipsters have ruined everything.