I don’t know that I’ve ever received an e-mail from either of those guys. Perhaps they e-mailed the business dept. to follow up? It’s useless for me to even speculate. In any event, there’s no relationship between ads and reviews, despite the dozens of “hey, we might advertise, can we please have a review” e-mails that I get. Hell, I don’t even know who is advertising with us unless I happen to notice their ad on the site. (And we have reviewed the A Frames.)

If either Tom or Scott happen across this thread, they can feel free to use my e-mail address to contact the Pitchfork editorial dept. about any review or feature concerns or questions they may ever have. (Hell, that goes for any label/artist/pr person.)

I can say that “Buy an ad” is a pretty frequent reply to people who demand coverage of their bullshit at both the magazine I work for and the newspaper that I edit for. With the magazine, the demands are even worse. It’s like no one realizes that since we’re a monthly, we actually plan everything, you know, over a month in advance. It’s not that we hate your band, dude...

I don’t know that I’ve ever received an e-mail from either of those guys.

don’t mean to come across personally defensive, or deflect potential blame: Bottom line is that I don’t know the specifics of either of these guys’ experiences with Pitchfork but the underlining insinuation is completely untrue.

Do the folks at Pitchfork Central where American Apparel? I’m pretty sure they do, wink wink nudge nudge.

Or even WEAR American Apparel.

Do the folks at Pitchfork Central whore American Apparel?

Um, do you even need to ask that one?

Considering a good number of bands in their demo (marketing speak!) print their shirts on said company’s stock, I’d say it’s almost a certainty.

do the pitchforks were american apparel

is ILM this abysmal every December?

ILM is usually this dismal year-round.

I kinda have the whole pitchfork sucks idea going on but at the same time I didn’t really know anything about anything until I started reading pitchfork. I mean, when you just have the NME and MTV2 to go on you are lucky to have any music taste at all. The end of year lists and top 100s of the decade and such have kind of built my current music collection.

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nope.

lol @ Pitchfork’s fact checking.

If the new Björk album does end up being called “Totempole” it’ll be the One Little Indian equivalent of The Breeders “Title TK” ;-)

pitchfork reviews musical albums

nope wait, I’m the retard... googling about and I thought they’d printed it again.

pitchfork reviews musical albums

More like musical LIES

In any event, there’s no relationship between ads and reviews

that’s definitely true...I know I’ve advertised releases with them that never got coverage. Oh well, can’t win them all!

Didn’t want to start a new thread for this, but I appreciate Harvilla’s evenhanded and fair review of the new Black Keys, especially when he digs in a little to the band’s history and reception. I don’t think they’re doing anything particularly noteworthy, but after seeing them live last year I think they do what they do pretty well and the snarky “lol Blueshammer” stuff sells them short.

is ILM this abysmal every December?

― obi strip (sanskrit), donderdag 21 december 2006 15:50 (4 years ago) Bookmark Permalink

ILM is usually this dismal year-round.

― David RER (Frank Fiore), donderdag 21 december 2006 16:18 (4 years ago) Bookmark Permalink

So, my latest piece for them is up, this time on the new This Mortal Coil box set:

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16115-this-mortal-coil/

nice review, ned. wish i could get that box, but geeez, how many deluxe box sets can i really afford this year? who wants to get it for me for xmas.

i have no problem w/ new bands doing blues-based music but i really do get terrible blueshammer vibes off the black keys, they’re just the worst

high five to sarge for giving mac miller and even lower score than childish gambino

xpost — There must be an angel (and thanks!)

I just noticed they’d published the worst cover art list. Too bad ILX was down, because there wasn’t as much crossover between our thread and the list this year.

I still wish I could write another reggae column, but then again, the blog’s been fun.

high five to sarge for giving mac miller and even lower score than childish gambino

― Mr. Stevenson #2, Thursday, December 8, 2011 10:29 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Permalink

yeah i think this guy is actively worse than gambino

ha i was trying to find that and skipped passed it because mac miller’s album art looks like some kinda lightweight indie electro pop album

yeah!! so weird right? it was done by his brother apparently

i thought the 1 was intentionally because it looks like the cover

i liked drew’s throbbing gristle piece, speaking as a non-fan (lol @ “you could write a whole book about...”)

^^^

Can we get Ned and Drew to keep cranking out box set reviews. Maybe even aero the next time some uber-obscure black metal band issues a set.

Can we get Ned and Drew to keep cranking out box set reviews.

Let’s just say there’s more in the pipeline...

Excellent news!

Yay!

i liked drew’s throbbing gristle piece, speaking as a non-fan (lol @ “you could write a whole book about...”)

agree with the lol, i LOVED drew’s review and ned’s wasn’t bad either!

http://pitchfork.com/features/poptimist/8724-take-me-to-the-river/

rip poptimist? (the front page says “In this final Poptimist”)

Yup, he’s talking about it on Twitter and elsewhere. FT post linking the last batch ‘with notes’ as he says:

http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2011/12/what-was-i-thinking-part-3/

hey cybele where is yr blog?

Okay, I’m pretty sure I now 100% don’t understand the point of “Best New Reissue” if they are going to give Tago Mago a 10 and not give it that tag.

It’s a great album, but maybe this is not a significant improvement on previous versions of it? The extras certainly don’t sound as though they’re crucial and it’s presumably the same sound quality as the last re-issue.

They’s what I told myself anyhow.

uh “That’s”

Yea, I guess that makes some sense, but I enjoyed the live bonus disc a lot more than they did.

I found that Harvilla Pitchfork review willfully shallow & insightless, actually. Anyone who’s attended their shows in the last few years has witnessed the steady growth in their audience—and the reasons why...

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hi Jay Babcock

are you older or younger than yr brother, Shakey Mo? Was he one of those kids that hated everything?

slow yr roll there kids

oh my question was totally unrelated to Jay’s post btw. i just wanted to hear some childhood anecdotes tbh.

eh, doesn’t seem like the thread for it

i bet your childhood stories would get at least a 7.2 dont be afraid

hey cybele where is yr blog?

― just sayin, Friday, December 9, 2011 5:59 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

if i’m right that cybele = Er1n M@cLeod, then http://soundclash.wordpress.com/

Great guitar tone, riffs galore, you can dance to it (never could w/ the white stripes), an inclusive feel, a sense of humor...