Had to pull the pitchforks out of the shed again.

I love how quickly we moved from ‘trumps just saying he’ll do those things’ we all knew he would do as fast as possible to ‘oh he’s done WHAT’

When this is all over I hope we drag all the journalists who excused or fluffed trump and musk to the galllows with them. #uspol

Where’s my #pitchfork emoji

Gardening via bicycle. Also, how to make cars steer VERY wide of you on the road. #pitchfork #cycling #gardening

Just discovered Hearing Things - a worker-owned, curated and considered music journalism publication.

https://www.hearingthings.co

Check them out, if that sounds like something you want to support.

Fine dining viewpoint
Three-road elevated perch
Zero ambience

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #Dining #FineDining #Ambience #Elegance #Pitchfork #Eden #Steak #Anniversary #Bath #Akron #Ohio #USA

June 26, 2024

Porridge Radio und IAN SWEET schreiben erstmals zusammen einen Track. „Everyone’s a Superstar“ entsteht innerhalb von 24 Stunden in den renommierten Abbey Road Studios in London. Wie das Ergebnis klingt, hört ihr im Popfilter.

#AbbeyRoad #DerSongDesTages #EveryonesASuperstar #IanSweet #Pitchfork #Popfilter #PorridgeRadio #PopfilterDerSongDesTages

https://detektor.fm/musik/popfilter-wie-ian-sweet-und-porridge-radio-an-einem-tag-einen-song-schreiben?utm_campaign=share_on_mastodon&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_source=mastodon

A great article on Pitchfork about Harry Partch. The people who live on the fringes, even the geniuses, are rarely accepted.
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/harry-partch-the-world-of-harry-partch/

Good piece by John Doran of The Quietus on the erosion of music journalism. A slippery slope into mediocrity.

#music #musician #journalism #pitchfork #TheQuietus #JohnDoran #FediMusic #MastoMusic #FediArt #MastoArt

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/30/pitchfork-q-music-reviews-critics-songs

i've had plenty of issues with the way #pitchfork created critical (& festival booking) consensus through ranking/rating, but truly wild at how many straight-up conspiracies i've seen about how their review section "really worked," so much so that i'd genuinely love to read a #folklore paper that compiles & classifies them.

#NowReading - the reboot of sound collector audio review, large format #print zine i wasn't hep enough to read in the '00s. nothin' but writing about not-new albums (#jazz, #indie, #rock, #pop, #punk, more), long & longer form by record review standards, short by essay standards. many feel (in nice ways) like hyper-condensed 33 1/3 books. not all to my taste, but all passionate. beautiful antidote to the #pitchfork etc. bullshit. free at record stores: https://soundcollector.com/stockists @vinylrecords

I've been picking on #CaseyNewton a lot recently over his coverage of SubStack's recent freedom of expression controversy. So it's only fair to point out that Platformer is generally a good publication, to which I still subscribe. His article on the shuttering of iconic music magazine Pitchfork, for example, is timely and insightful;

https://www.platformer.news/why-pitchfork-died/

just remembering that time #pitchfork let me write about the reissue of ned lagin's "seastones" & rate it 8.0. https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/ned-lagin-seastones/

RIP Pitchfork. But if we are being honest, the site’s audience was 99% white male “audiophile” music gatekeepers and 1% people who clicked a shared link by said white male “audiophile” music gatekeepers.

I've said something like this previously, but Ad-driven internet sites are simply not viable for people to write about topics.

They all eventually morph into a site which is all about advertising and not the articles.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/jan/18/pitchforks-absorption-into-gq-is-a-travesty-for-music-media-and-musicians

pretty despondent that GQ is "folding in" #pitchfork. despite covering less-interesting-to-me music in recent years, i grieve for their mega-talented staff, the dismantling of one of the only fact-checking newsrooms in the music biz, the loss of an adventurous outlet (always assumed i'd return to writing there when i had the chance), the entwined failures of the #indie & mainstream #music ecosystems. their acquisition-to-self-gutting speed run feels like the cultural version of climate collapse.

Das Online-Musik-Mag "Pitchfork" wird wohl zu einem Bestsndteil von "GQ" eingedampft.

Erinnert mich daran, welche Zeitschriften ich schon kommen und gehen sah. Mal überlegen: Zillo, Intro, Spex, Indiecator, Subway?, New Life, Frontpage, Bodystyler, ... da gab's bestimmt noch mehr. Bin da nicht Up to Date, ob es z.B. noch Gothic, Orkus und Co gibt.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/17/24042208/pitchfork-to-be-absorbed-into-gq-layoffs

Music magazine Pitchfork is to be restructured under the GQ brand, according to an email to staff from Anna Wintour, who is chief content officer at parent company Conde Nast. A number of staff have been laid off. “After nearly 8 [years], mass layoffs got me,” longtime editor Jill Mapes wrote on X. “Glad we could spend that time trying to make it a less dude-ish place just for GQ to end up at the helm.” Here's more from Billboard.

https://flip.it/7KyZe7

The internet was supposed to be a quirky fun place where people could build really unique things.

But it's turned out like everything else, where they with the most money wins, consolidating until everything cool dies or it all just looks the same.

"Condé Nast Folds Music Site Pitchfork Into GQ"

https://www.thewrap.com/conde-nast-pitchfork-gq-merge/

There's a bit of a sad trend in #Pitchfork's list of best songs of the year.

Basically the large majority of the songs on that list are less than 3 minutes long or barely reach that threshold - with a few notable exceptions, like the psychedelic 8 minutes of "Bending Hectic", Cole Pulice's 22 minutes epic ambient track, and Lana Del Rey's absolute masterpiece (which, unsurprisingly, grabbed the top position).

How can a piece of music even have enough time to breathe, develop and sink in the listener's ears without even being 3 minutes long - let alone be considered as one of the best songs of the year?

Am I just becoming an old grumpy dinosaur that somehow survived the mass extinction of the prog world (and still enjoys making songs that are 8 minutes long or longer), or is the average attention span shortening so much that even "art pop" has become a product to be consumed within the length of a reel?

Oh, and let's not even get started with variety. Half of the songs on that list belong to the hip-hop/rap/trap school. Most of the exceptions come from artists (like Blonde Redhead, Four Tet, Aphex Twin etc.) that have already been active for at least a decade.

Are we going towards a world where all the songs sound the same, and where they have to fight against listeners who tend to press the skip button after 10 seconds?

https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/best-songs-2023/