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The Guardian on Pitchfork

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? by simon_t

About 7.3, I'd say: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/apr/14/pitchfork.music

If I'm honest, mostly I'm posting this for the way it assumes the average British music-loving reader will know who Travis Morrison is but not Vampire Weekend.

simon_t | 14 Apr '08, 15:45 | Send note | Report this | Reply

suprised the guardian

are so slow on the uptake of pitchfork existing, still shone in far more positive light than i was expecting

blackeleph | 14 Apr '08, 15:59 | Send note | Report this | Reply

I hear there is this site called amazon that is starting to take off

booksellers must be sh!tting themselves.

Didn't the guardian have a feature on this a while ago when it was talking about Pitchfork, Stylus, Popmatters and DiS?

black_rooster | 14 Apr '08, 16:03 | Send note | Report this | Reply

To be fair to the Grauniad

their Music section has known about Pitchfork for a good long while. Seem to recall them being mentioned in an article a year or so ago.

This article's by one of the Technology writers, in a series about good websites. Probably aimed at people who don't read much music journalism.

I love that Jet review.

ColdGlassEye | 14 Apr '08, 16:04 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Flaming Lips

Which album got 0.0?

goldenstreams | 14 Apr '08, 16:16 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Zaireeka

ColdGlassEye | 14 Apr '08, 16:19 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Zaireeka

they didnt know what to make of it

Wasted_Opportunity | 14 Apr '08, 16:20 | Send note | Report this | Reply

It was an experiment

..rather than a conventional album.

I mean I have the album and have only listened to it three times as it's so awkward to set up.

Damomad | 14 Apr '08, 17:01 | Send note | Report this | Reply

The wierd thing about Pitchfork and the Lips is

that while Zaireeka got a 0.0, The Soft Bulletin got a 10.0, and I believe both of those were reviewed by the same writer.

Annoying_person | 14 Apr '08, 17:10 | Send note | Report this | Reply

And the irony?

The songs on The Soft Bulletin were created during the Zarieeka sessions!

Damomad | 14 Apr '08, 17:16 | Send note | Report this | Reply

that's saved only

by the Vonnegut reference.

guntrip | 14 Apr '08, 16:23 | Send note | Report this | Reply

not even by that

given that they've misused it. Unless the chimp actually died.

joeymahone | 14 Apr '08, 17:14 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Urrm...

there WAS an article about Pitchfork in The Guardian back in 2006...

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0,,1955165,00.html

dazedmarc | 14 Apr '08, 16:47 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Ummm

"It is even making money. But it's also less idiosyncratic and has lost some of the roughness that helped give it a cutting edge. The same kind of thing happens to indie bands when they hit the mainstream."

Don't think I agree with that at all...if by "losing the roughness" they mean that, on the whole, the writing tends to be balanced and doesn't rely on foam-mouthed hyperbole then they might be onto something.
But apart from that I just think its a very well written mag.

uggggh | 14 Apr '08, 16:58 | Send note | Report this | Reply

probably means that its more predictable

in what it will review positively or negatively, to the extent you dont really need to read it any more, or something like that anyway.

dukebox | 14 Apr '08, 17:09 | Send note | Report this | Reply


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