Comments on: The High Strung http://www.superstarcastic.com/music-news-2/music-industry-gossip/the-high-strung/ What Are You Listening To, Commie? Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:15:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: melby http://www.superstarcastic.com/music-news-2/music-industry-gossip/the-high-strung/#comment-126819 melby Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:34:15 +0000 http://www.superstarcastic.com/music-news/music-industry-gossip/the-high-strung/#comment-126819 i avoid pitchfork like the plague. the last thing i ever saw was a friend's link to a jet album review where it was a video of a monkey pissing into its own mouth. hardy har har pfork... i avoid pitchfork like the plague. the last thing i ever saw was a friend’s link to a jet album review where it was a video of a monkey pissing into its own mouth.

hardy har har pfork…

]]> By: hotshotrobot http://www.superstarcastic.com/music-news-2/music-industry-gossip/the-high-strung/#comment-126770 hotshotrobot Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:41:44 +0000 http://www.superstarcastic.com/music-news/music-industry-gossip/the-high-strung/#comment-126770 Hmmm. <i>4.) albums have been reviewed by other landmarks: Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Spin, Playboy, Blender, Stuff. If it's validation yr after... can't some of it be found there? 5.) A song of ours was named runner up for SONG OF THE YEAR in The Washington Post. NPR named our first album one of the top ten of the year. Even if you totally didn't agree with this... shouldn't it warrant a review?</i> Those are some pretty sweet claims to fame. So why do they care whether or not Pitchfork reviews them? Other than the whole "a 9.0 and Best New Music guarantees a slot at Coachella and Pitchfork Fest and lots of indie rock douchebags buying your record" rub, i guess. I visit Pitchfork maybe once a month--if that--these days. Yeah, maybe not the best thing to brag about when you're a "music writer," but i don't see the point in rewarding a site that by and large promotes music that either 1) i can't stand or 2) really doesn't need Pitchfork coverage (is a good Pitchfork review really gonna help line Springsteen's wallet?) by assigning it even more "validity." Hmmm.

4.) albums have been reviewed by other landmarks: Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Spin, Playboy, Blender, Stuff. If it’s validation yr after… can’t some of it be found there?
5.) A song of ours was named runner up for SONG OF THE YEAR in The Washington Post. NPR named our first album one of the top ten of the year. Even if you totally didn’t agree with this… shouldn’t it warrant a review?

Those are some pretty sweet claims to fame. So why do they care whether or not Pitchfork reviews them? Other than the whole “a 9.0 and Best New Music guarantees a slot at Coachella and Pitchfork Fest and lots of indie rock douchebags buying your record” rub, i guess.

I visit Pitchfork maybe once a month–if that–these days. Yeah, maybe not the best thing to brag about when you’re a “music writer,” but i don’t see the point in rewarding a site that by and large promotes music that either 1) i can’t stand or 2) really doesn’t need Pitchfork coverage (is a good Pitchfork review really gonna help line Springsteen’s wallet?) by assigning it even more “validity.”

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