MetaFilter posts tagged with pitchfork

The Social History of the MP3.

chunking express — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:03:46 -0800

Will Jonmc's head asplode?

bardic — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:22:39 -0800

Grab your John Deere hat and your Asian girlfriend! Metafilter's most hated music website is telling you what the 500 best songs of the 21st century are! 500-201 200-101 100-51 50-1 coming later this week The winner? I'm guessing something by Radiohead.

Dynasty

Joe Beese — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:47:44 -0800

Coincidental to the publishing of her memoir, Candy Spelling - the widow of legendary television producer Aaron Spelling - is selling her Beverly Hills mansion for $150 million. (Daughter Tori Spelling is not expected to share in the proceeds.)

Daryl Hall looks like a lion.

ND¢ — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:09:07 -0800

I think that we can all agree that the best-selling duo in rock history, Hall & Oates, are pretty freaking awesome. They recorded some of the greatest songs in pop history, including "Rich Girl", "Kiss on My List", "Private Eyes", "I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)", "Maneater", and "You Make My Dreams Come True". They were incredible live. And they participated in the greatest back-alley song-writing duel of 1978. Also Daryl Hall considers himself a modern-day warlock. However, last night the world learned that Hall and Oates's are sad. They are extremely saddened by the upcoming departure of Alan Colmes from his show Hannity and Colmes, and they have chosen to express their sadness through song. Sean Hannity actually replied to Hall & Oates's heartfelt tribute to the departure of his colleague, stating “I was actually thinking of Jon [Stewart] as a co-host but I needed someone who could be smart and funny without 50 writers and two has-been rockers who are badly in need of Botox.” via.

Write Me Stories

goodnewsfortheinsane — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:39:55 -0800

Paulo in London asks musicians to write him a story on an index card. For example, the Polyphonic Spree's Michael Musick and Bryan Wakeland, Arcade Fire's Richard Reed Parry, Jens Lekman, Sufjan Stevens, and the Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne.

I want my P-tv

brevator — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 04:29:16 -0800

So, um, Pitchfork.tv launches today. That's all I got.

Don't Believe the Hype

zabuni — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:48:50 -0800

The Internet Hype Machine Bubble. Idolator has an introspective on the boom and bust cycle of the online indie music scene, focusing on the band Black Kids, who with only one EP under their belt, are already being hyped to an extreme extent. With the conversation taking prominence over the music itself, are we seeing the dark side of the Cluetrain? Supplementary links: Pretty Goes with Pretty has a four part series detailing much the same topic. [1, 2, 3, 4] Another post from the Idolator along the same lines, discussing an Oxford American article.

I'm coming up only to take your picture.

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 10:21:58 -0800

[...] now they’re really interested in this one song– and they still won’t make eye contact, looking through their little lenses, taping this one song for their blogs or for their fucking YouTube [accounts] or whatever, [...] and it just pissed me off.

Band of Horses singer gives San Diego YouTuber the finger, prompting reactions ranging from sympathy with the artist to basically "stop whining, it's part of the job".

Music Geek Masturbatory Manuals

Mach3avelli — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 01:40:53 -0800

Pitchfork has unveiled their Top 50 Albums of 2006 (don't also miss their Top 100 Tracks of 2006). Rolling Stone's Top 50. Prefix's Top 50. Stylus's Top 50. For those who love these lists, the deluge has only begun...

Stephen Colbert v. The Decemberists

ND¢ — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 07:08:54 -0800

Stephen Colbert has a “Green Screen Challenge”. The Decemberists have their own green screen challenge. Colbert calls them idea stealing jerks and issues a "Second Green Screen Challenge": "to edit me into the Decemberists' green screen challenge... Let's see how well they perform their trademark brand of hyper-literate prog rock when I'm slicing off their legs at the knee." Now the Decemberists are saying that awesomely wielding lightsabers was their idea, and that Colbert must have copied them, and they have the "Decemberists vs Stephen Colbert Guitar Solo Challenge".

Because we were under the influence [...], we had little choice but to concentrate only on what we were playing and thus, did not move around a great deal.

goodnewsfortheinsane — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:12:46 -0800

Master's thesis on My Bloody Valentine's album Loveless (full thesis as pdf, html).

"Yeah, you heard me, child arsonist. He burns kids"

runkelfinker — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 03:20:31 -0800

Clell Tickle: Indie Marketing Guru (YouTube)

Predictfork.

goodnewsfortheinsane — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 17:41:28 -0800

Pitchfork? Predict able? Let's take an empirical approach.

Fork me

tellurian — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 19:57:39 -0800

Sound Team didn't think much of the review that Pitchfork gave them and replied via YouTube. [via] (which also reports on the winner of the Moo & Oink contest).

"I hate music / Sometimes I don't. . . . Tommy said so-so-so-so-so what?"

bardic — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 13:36:18 -0800

"So I think we maybe have this sort of snobbish reputation. But we're just really honest, opinionated music fans." (via)

Você...precisa saber do festival

hydrophonic — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 08:47:45 -0800

Os Mutantes have reunited and will be playing the Pitchfork Media Festival this summer. Archival footage of the band discussed here.

Internet Success Story: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

ND¢ — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 06:44:56 -0800

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are a band that, less than a year ago, were making music without the help of a record label, pressing CDs themselves and selling them at concerts and on the Internet. Then the following happened: June 9: Dan Bierne writes about the band on his MP3 blog, June 14: Pitchfork Media posts a review of the song "In This Home On Ice", June 15: Blogger Gothamist posts an interview with the band, June 20: Blogger Stereogum announces the band's show at the Knitting Factory, June 21: Gothamist reports that David Bowie was in the audience at the Knitting Factory show, and June 22: Pitchfork posts one of a slew of reviews of Clap's first album. Now, they've been named to dozens of critics 'best of' lists, they're playing Conan and Letterman, and are about to embark on a new tour. Why choose today to post an article about a band blowing up written in November you ask? Because their tour kicks off tonight at the 9:30 club in DC, and you can listen to it live.

Live Music From NPR.

ND¢ — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 08:05:03 -0800

NPR’s Live Concert Series site offers recordings of recent live performances by James Brown, Sinead O’Connor, Iron & Wine and Calexico, Son Volt, My Morning Jacket, The White Stripes, M. Ward, Sigur Ros, Bloc Party, The Decemberists, and live tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. ET, Colin Meloy.

A prize goes to whomever does the best pastiche of a prominent poster from last year's version of this thread.

kenko — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 23:55:59 -0800

Everyone is aware, I'm sure, that year-end or best–however many lists are really just not that interesting, and the discussion surrounding them falls along similar lines all the time. However, someone always links to them anyway. Here's Pitchfork's, of the top 50 albums of this year. Here's some guy's top ten of 2004. Two writers for Dusted (the rest to be linked from this page, theoretically). Stylus Magazine's picks, and those of Pop Matters.

Confabulate it!

ludwig_van — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 17:37:03 -0800

The Confabulators. They Are Confabulators!! They Write About Music!! They Have Come From The Decemberists Board!! Ahhhh! It began on a message board (reg. required). All the latest news about The Decemberists, Sufjan Stevens, and now, more! Their latest entry: A review of Pitchfork's review of Sufjan's Illinois. That'll teach 'em.

7.8

Quartermass — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 07:14:19 -0800

The power of the Pitchfork.
Rating: 7.8

Pitchfork's Top 100 Albums of the 1970s

LinusMines — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 08:50:51 -0800

Pitchfork's Top 100 Albums of the 1970s (dis|cuss|discuss).

Pitchformula: music criticism as a creative tool

soundofsuburbia — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 03:51:37 -0800

pitchformula.com This project combines a computer science background and a songwriting hobby with an unhealthy obsession for popular music reviews. In it, I attempt to come up with a new computer-assisted songwriting method which takes music critics' opinions into account. By writing software to statisically analyze the content of several thousand record reviews from the Pitchfork music website (www.pitchforkmedia.com), I generate a set of compositional guidelines based on the musical preferences expressed by the critics. I then use those guidelines to write and record a couple of original songs, discussing in detail the relationships between the songs and the data that I have collected. [via music (for robots)]

White + Black = Grey

boost ventilator — Wed, 18 Feb 2004 10:05:24 -0800

DJ Danger Mouse has been making waves recently with his Grey Album that cross-pollinates the music of The Beatles' classic White Album with the lyrics and delivery of Jay-Z's recent swan song, the Black Album. The results? "One of the more interesting pirate mashups ever done." (Pitchfork). "Most ambitious remix." (Village Voice). "As fun as it is daring." (Boston Globe). "Ultimate remix record." (Rolling Stone). Not surprisingly, EMI is far from amused by the unsanctioned and unapproved project and the limited release will no longer be distributed. So, download it now (or check out these Real Player samples).

the 90's

trbrts — Tue, 25 Nov 2003 08:24:38 -0800

Pitchfork's 100 Best Albums of the 1990's I'm sure that you'll find plenty to bitch about on this list, but hang on, the last 20 will be posted tomorrow. You can also see where they stood at the turn of the decade.