also, why did vampire weekend (upper class, rich, trust fund police rip off artists) receive such a high rating on their lackluster, mediocre-at-best full length album?? because they’re ALL friends with the staff writers @ pitchfork.

check out staff reviewer, joshua love. he seems to think jenny lewis’ newest album was nothing special (i’ll agree; NOT saying it deserved ‘praise’, necessarily)… but check out what josh was up to before he landed his gig @ pitchfork…

instead of blindly trusting a ‘credible/legit’ review site (which kids do, because they’re lazy and want people to tell them what to listen to – see iLike, Pandora Radio, etc.) it would be fantastic if people were able to produce the effort necessary to see through pitchfork’s scam.

bottom line:
they’re helping their friends out because of how the public perceives them. nice scam.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=GZWQ5sa-ftQ

‘Doesn’t sound like a derivite to me’

You raise some really interesting points in your comment, and I definitely agree with a lot of them. I agree that the connection is tangential at best, and I particularly like thinking of Pitchfork as Yahoo’s hipster twin.

And while I do think that there are things that Pitchfork shares with, for instance, Cell Phones and H&M, I think there are a remarkable number of parallels between P4k and Google that raise interesting questions. Certainly they are far from clones of each other, but they have followed similar trajectories and fill a niche space in their respective fields that is rarer than you give it credit for being.

Yes, in short Pitchfork is the publisher and Google is the library. But I think more and more we are seeing people treat Google as a publisher and Pitchfork as a library. Google chooses what people see and what people don’t, essentially, through their search rankings and targeted ads, while Pitchfork is frequently treated as an aggregator of music news and review (with individuals as publishers). Yes, they perform different roles, but I would argue that they are both trending toward the gray area in the middle.

As for the “dreamy mashup ideas”, I think you may be surprised. I agree that some of the ideas a farfetched or whimsical, but two years ago, P4k TV would have been a pipedream. Pitchfork has already printed a book. Pitchfork already publishes tour dates/release dates in a haphazard manner. Making the jump to the next level might be less a leap of faith and more a smart business decision

I would say combining your thoughts and my thoughts would probably construct a fairly reasonable middleground – but where’s the fun in that?

I just bookmarked your blog.

Which i fear, will be a pick up line in 5 years, but for now, it’s just a compliment.