Pitchfork’s 100 Tracks
Pitchfork’s top 100 tracks of 2011.
Pitchfork Lists
The Pitchfork lists have started with best music videos and worst album covers.
Did Pitchfork kill the rock critic? [via]
It’s the web publication’s absolutist tone (“It’s also revealing that they don’t allow comments,” DeRogatis notes) mixed with its ambitions as a concert promoter that causes alarm. As the two grow more codependent on each other, it becomes difficult to tell when, and if, it is wearing the mask of a critical outlet or an indomitable, cash-hungry marketing organism.
Pitchfork’s 60 favorite music books. (Number I’ve read: 4, though I’ve recently ordered the Ellen Willis book.)
Pitchfork on the fall of the Guitar Hero franchise.
Never mind that Dragonforce nonsense; as someone vaguely skilled at messing with a plastic guitar, the run of bullshit that kicks off GH3’s version of “Holiday In Cambodia” was the sort of miracle mile that I never wanted to run. Activision needlessly turned a challenging yet enjoyable gaming/music emulation experience into the fake-music equivalent of Ninja Gaiden II.
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A comparison in name checking between “Losing My Edge” and the Pitchfork LCD Soundsystem retrospective. [via]
Pitchify combines Pitchfork reviews with Spotify streaming. This is actually a kind-of brilliant idea and makes me wish they’d hurry up in releasing Spotify in North America.
Tumblr of note that I can’t believe I’ve missed until now: Pitchfork Reviews Reviews.
A speculative preview of Time’s feature story about Pitchfork.
The writing on Pitchfork is occasionally criticized as self-indulgent. The scope of the site’s influence is also criticized, specifically the manner in which their coverage can contribute to a faddish appreciation of bands (see: Black Kids). That reviews come with corresponding numerical values on a ten-point scale is criticized, but not as often as the first two things.
The real question is why did I italicize Time but not Pitchfork?
