Morning Dump: Pitchfork’s upward mobility, something about everything, the goddamn Frank Miller, fake kicks real profit
Posted by theashcan in Morning Dump on 21. Aug, 2010 | 0 Comments
Wired magazine has a succinct story about Pitchfork’s newest feature, exclusive multi-camera online concert videos. The musical taste makers at p4k have built themselves from just-another-blog into a shepherd of hipster music fans worldwide. Wired delves into why the newest Pitchfork project — fully self funded by the Chicago site — is par for the [...]
The Morning Dump: irony, Do Rappers Read The Walrus?, ew Cthulhus, Did Warren Beatty bed Woody Allen?
Posted by theashcan in Morning Dump on 08. May, 2010 | 2 Comments
Don’t snark at me for posting a link from Pitchfork. I’m not the one who goes on there to gather a list of cool bands to check out (or, more likely, name drop). I read the writing. The writing is good. For example, Nitsuh Abebe‘s Why We Fight column, which discusses the finer points of [...]
Trapping in Williamsburg
Posted by Anupa in Music, Rappers, Show & Tell on 04. Nov, 2009 | 0 Comments
Clipse + Rick Ross: The likeliest of collabos, and still, so worth it The Clipse are like the Hall & Oates of drug rap. Pusha T and Malice spit complex cartel tales with panache that renders them more charming than menacing. On the remix to the Neptunes produced “I’m Good,” Miami boss Rick Ross (whose [...]
Show and Tell: Midnight Juggernauts
Posted by Simon in Music, Show & Tell on 18. Oct, 2009 | 0 Comments
Justice at one point described Midnight Juggernauts as their “new favourite band”. That endorsement from their former touring-mates, along with sensational single Shadows, were enough to catapult the Juggernauts into the highest echelons of the blogosphere a couple years ago. Since then, the genre of music for white people who like to dance has continued to explode, [...]
Grizzly Bear (the band, not the animal) howling in a church
Posted by jessekg in Music, Pop Culture on 09. Oct, 2009 | 0 Comments
This past summer every time the band Grizzly Bear came up in conversation with friends it was accompanied by phrases like “over-rated,” or “not as good as Animal Collective,” or something else to indicate that the only reason we were hearing so much about them was because Pitchfork loves them (not because they’re ”actually” any good). Which [...]
