Remember when these clowns decided what everyone likes? Today they're as relevant as AOL.
>>131838825AOL is more relevant as a nostalgia artifact, Bitchfork is not even that
>>131838825I recently went through some of their year end top 100 trying to compile a landfill indie band list and holy fuck that site is jewed up from top to bottom. Literally three out of every five write ups was a jew.I always used to wonder how they always had such shit taste in music around 2010 and now I finally know.
>>131838924Also explains why black "music" was shilled so hard
>>131839083Interesting cohincidence that once P4K went paywall and lost relevance, hiphop died. Also USAID funding was cancelled.
Brent DiCrescenzo is half that website's legacy, the occasional gem aside like that Jet review and "Shit, cat".
>>131838924there's nothing special about that discovery since there were always tons of Jews in rock criticism from the beginning
the festival lineups were actually good, that's what I miss about them
>>131838825It's cause the teenagers who worked there shilled here
>>131839752If true, they gave this board the closest thing to a pulse it ever had.
>>131839740if youre into fotw indie, I guess
>>131839083What was the review they did of some blues or jazz CD and they wrote it in the style of a black man from the '40s, with lines like 'Dem cats be out of sight'?
>>131841238https://web.archive.org/web/20070502025237/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/16264-live-at-the-village-vanguard-the-master-takesShit, cat.
>>131838825Weren't they relevant only to hipsters?
>>131839716that was Ryan Schreiber, but yeah they were based
>>131843193I wonder if he ever thinks about this review when he's in the shower or laying in bed
>>131839083black "music" has always been a DEI psyop
>>131843360shame the animated version is lost forever
>>131843193did anyone manage to save the youtube parody of this
>>131843240Maybe, maybe not. If you were in the know then you'd know, pleb.
>>131844468What a boring say nothing post. You can just not comment you know
>>131844495look at the retard getting mad for being called a pleb lol
>>131838825Honestly ever since their relevancy dried up they’ve actually had some decent picks for AOTY. Diamond Jubilee and Los Thutanaka were both excellent
>>131838924>landfill indieWhat the fuck is the point of this retarded term and why do you all say it so much. Bands in the 2000s/2010s indie era were much more consistently good and talented than the bullshit landfill hip-hop, landfill bedroom pop, landfill vaporwave, landfill EDM, landfill hyperpop, landfill metal, landfill whatever the fuck era we're in now. I'd take 2010 p4kcore any day over whatever you cynical cancerous /pol/ faggots listen to
>>131838825They died when they got bought by Conde Nast and shifted towards poptimism. No reason to exist after that if they were just going to shill the same shit as Billboard but with paragraphs about how it's actually reclaiming the male gaze or whatever they remember from undergrad
>>131844468God damn I was exposed as a filthy casual
>>131844917It was a real term in the 2000s, mainly used for generic UK rock bands that all sounded the same and the NME promoted. Today it's overused as a generic derogatory term, but the concept comes from that period of soundalike post punk revival UK bands
>>131843193Hahaha! Thanks for finding that, even worse than I remembered it.
>>131844495I miss when people still had a sense of humor.
>>131844660>Los ThutanakaIf that was bait well played if not I hate you for making me give them a listen
>>131839752>>131839764p4k was washed when /mu/ really got going. two ships passing in the night
>>131845093What’s wrong anon, can’t handle a bit of queer Bolivian folk psychedelia?In all seriousness, you might not like either of those picks, but at least p4k aren’t trying to cater to poptimists in the hope of clawing back some sort of relevancy. They were always a pretentious hipster website, at least they’re getting back to their roots by choosing weird, obscure shit that the average normie won’t care about because it isn’t available on streaming.
>>131838825You say that, but they've played a big role in the anointing of Geese/Cameron Winter as the Saviors of Indie Rock.
>>131844917holy triggered indie numale
>>131845290No, that was their PR firm(s).
>>131845290>Cameron Wintera jew, see >>131838924
They groomed a generation into liking trash like Deerhunter, Animal collective and Beach House
>>131847352this>>131844917lol the fact that it makes npc's like you seethe means it's the perfect term for the garbage ass music pitchfork pushed
>>131838825Unfortunately it has a successor and people don't shit on it enough IMO.
>>131847352it wasn't a generation nor even a sub-generation / micro-generation, it was merely a small portion of losersmost people have no idea who Animal Collective, Deerhunter, and Beach House are
>>131847924never heard of themjust read this though as trial:https://thequietus.com/quietus-reviews/vampire-weekend-contra-album-review/and it's more eloquent and intelligent than anything I have ever read from Pitchforkalthough I think the author's taste is questionable, I understand where they are coming from and find myself half in agreement whilst the other half is in mild irkness and disgusthit and miss, but point well enough stated that the thrust is not so contentious
>>131838825their sole form of relevance being fodder for pop stan wars on xitter is a very deserved fate rest in piss
>>131838825Anyone even reading "music journalism" anywhere these days? I mean...Fantano? RYM? 4chan? We're the new journos.
>>131847929>>131847352What should they listen to instead?
>>131848292why are you speaking in present tense for a past tense topic?
>>131848310what should people listen instead of the bands mentioned?
>>131844991I miss when people were funny and not painfully boring and retarded 24/7>>131847915>the fact that x makes y seetheFunny you picked the most overused NPC phrase alive to convey that idea
>>131838825Pitchfork /mu/ was objectively a better /mu/Most Pitchfork haters are just mad. They cannot take their taste not being validated very well.
>>131843240yes lol they had absolutely zero impact on any relevant genre, any chart, their live festival was a forgotten unmissed disaster, basically everything related to the industry. missing the mark on every single "next big thing" act they tried shilling was really funny tho
