Condé Nast Buys Pitchfork Media
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Condé Nast Buys Pitchfork Media
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#2It brings “a very passionate audience of millennial males into our roster,” he said.
Oof.
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#3Is Pitchfork still cool with hipsters?
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#4It brings “a very passionate audience of millennial males into our roster,” he said. Oof.
I always viewed Pitchfork as more of a Gen X thing... they were founded in the mid 90s.
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#5I've been reading Pitchfork for around six years now. Even though it has its share of questionable reviews and scores, its always proven an excellent bellwether for new music and introduced me to most of my favorite albums. In the age of dozens of music blogs and streaming venues, there's something refreshingly simple about their five reviews a day format; I know they've been experimenting with other content approaches (like the late Dissolve), but Ryan seems to understand the core appeal of the site pretty well.
I hope they continue to put out good reviews of great music. As long as they do that, I'll be happy.
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#6It brings “a very passionate audience of millennial males into our roster,” he said. Oof.
For those who aren't familiar, Pitchfork is basically _the_ hipster music magazine.
Source: I live in Brooklyn.
(This post made with tongue firmly in cheek, of course. By virtue of the fact that I know about it, it can't possibly be hipster enough.)
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#7Is Pitchfork still cool with hipsters?
Not being cool with hipsters is the new hip.
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#8I don't even like Pitchfork that much (while I have learned about some artists from them, largely their tastes don't align with mine), but this makes me sad. Conde Nast buys everything. I can't really blame Conde Nast for this entirely, the owners who choose to sell out are really to blame. It's unfortunate. But I can't say I'd choose any differently if presented with such a large pay day.
I'm disappointed because since the Conde Nast takeover of Ars Technica, it has gone steeply down hill. I imagine the fans of Pitchfork will go through a similar experience over the next few years.
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#9For a taste of the archetypical pitchfork style, read any of their radiohead reviews:
http://pitchfork.com/artists/3512-radiohead/
The classic is the Kid A one: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/6656-kid-a/
Boomkat is a close second, but at least theyre trying to sell the records: https://twitter.com/boomkat_ebooks
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#10For a taste of the archetypical pitchfork style, read any of their radiohead reviews: http://pitchfork.com/artists/3512-radiohead/ The classic is the Kid A one: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/6656-kid-a/ Boomkat is a close second, but at least theyre trying to sell the records: https://twitter.com/boomkat_ebooks
I say this as a fairly regular Pitchfork reader: The experience and emotions tied to listening to Kid A are like witnessing the stillborn birth of a child while simultaneously having the opportunity to see her play in the afterlife on Imax is one of at least the top five worst sentences I've ever read.
(IMHO, their earlier reviews generally were of lower quality than their more recent ones, and they've benefited from discarding/discouraging the more experimental/informal review formats. The irony of this sentence being a hipster antithesis does not escape me.)