“Welcome to the magic kingdom,” said a ticket-taker at the Pitchfork Music Festival. Irony and humor aside, the volunteer’s invocation of the idea of Walt Disney World was quite apt. Music festivals – especially multi-day fests – are often not terribly pleasant experien[...]
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July 19th, 2010 - 2:43 am § in True/Slant
Pitchfork Music Festival 2010 in review
Tags: Beach House, Big Boi, CAVE, Concerts and Events, Delorean, Girls, Intonation Festival, krautrock, LCD Soundsystem, Liars, Lightening Bolt, Major Lazer, Modest Mouse, music, music festival, Panda Bear, Pavement, Pitchfork Media, Pitchfork Music Festival, Pitchfork Music Festival 2010, Robyn, Sleigh Bells, St. Vincent, Union Park, Walt Disney World, Why? 7 Comments
June 30th, 2010 - 2:30 am § in True/Slant
The blogosphere doesn't need Pitchfork's Altered Zones
Popular indie music site Pitchfork announced it will launch Altered Zones, a sister site dedicated to DIY sounds so obscure not even those on staff at Pitchfork have heard of some of the bands or dreamt up cool new tags for the zany new tunes. Pitchfork has some lofty goals for the site, which will [...]
May 6th, 2010 - 2:52 am § in True/Slant
Sampled Reviews: Broken Social Scene
Pitchfork Reviews Reviews, an intelligent and humorous site that critiques album reviews by the popular alt-music site Pitchfork, uploaded a keen little video the other day. The video is a review of a song by Francis and the Lights, and the on-screen action is a written review that follows the pace [...]