Pitchfork profile in Wired
Dave Itzkoff wrote a nice article about those wacky Pitchfork kids in the current issue of Wired. A sample passage:
At any given moment, Pitchfork’s homepage provides an instantaneous read on a broad swath of pop-music happenings, with band interviews, tour dates, and a frequently updated news feed. But what immediately catches a reader’s eye is the profusion of adjectives and adverbs that don’t always mean exactly what they say but are passionately trying to say something: The debut CD from the Brooklyn trio Au Revoir Simone is described as “musically fanciful and lyrically Pollyannaish,” while the latest release from the avant-garde band TV on the Radio, we are told, has “abstract and electronic textures,” and a new album from the British group Keane is excoriated for its “portentous clichés.”
Yep — pretty much sums up what I like about ‘em…