Condé Nast is folding Pitchfork Media into GQ

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Condé Nast Is Folding Pitchfork Into GQ, With Layoffs

Multiple employees at the storied music criticism site “will be leaving the company,” according to a memo from Anna Wintour.

www.nytimes.com

That’s what they get for being so mean to Liz Phair’s s/t then trying to backtrack!

 

[Valeyard]

I had never seen a shooting star before

 

[BUTT]

Not surprising tbh. Poptimism won, rock died and the marketable parts of the indie aesthetic got absorbed into the mainstream. You don't need a special website to tell you to like Olivia Rodrigo and Ariana Grande. Maybe the Hipster Runoff guy was right when he had a nervous breakdown over Lana Del Rey.

 

[Gary]

I just want to know what Byron the Bulb would have to say about this.

 

[Czech]

Rolling Stone just ran this piece: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/pitchfork-music-gq-1234949447/

And I was very surprised to see where this anchor text went:

It might sound incredibly lame and pathetic, but it’s no exaggeration to say that Pitchfork has been as big a part of my adult life as anything besides my wife and two kids. I started reading it as a journalism major at Northwestern University in the early 2000s, tantalizingly close to the site’s old Chicago headquarters, not that I remember knowing it at the time. A review of indie-rock heroes Dismemberment Plan let me know I should be bummed their planned set on campus was rained out, a feature on the 50 worst guitar solos ever rewired my brain into the notion that Pink Floyd might suck, actually, and scathing reviews of the then-upstart emo band Jimmy Eat World called into question all the enjoyment I’d felt seeing them live at a tiny venue and memorizing every nuance of their CDs as a teenager in Arizona.

That which is dead can never die, my board bros.

 

[Valeyard]

I don't know how to feel about that.

 

[BUTT]

Strange that this guy would be too lazy to take the extra minute and find the actual article on the Wayback Machine, choosing instead to link to Where Self-Celebration Happens, but I'm glad Mike McKenzie is getting a few extra hits this week.

 

[Czech]

Strange that this guy would be too lazy to take the extra minute and find the actual article on the Wayback Machine, choosing instead to link to Where Self-Celebration Happens, but I'm glad Mike McKenzie is getting a few extra hits this week.

The Mike McKenzie MIDI theme was an 8.8 Best New Music

 

[BUTT]

The McKenzie Group

Rockin' out to this on the toilet rn

 

[Valeyard]

It got a 98/100 on eBay.

 

[BUTT]

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Paste Media Acquires The AV Club

Paste Media is now the official home of The AV Club, the legendary entertainment site founded out of the back pages of The Onion in Chicago 1993.

www.pastemagazine.com

@Incandenza , me posting AV Club articles to your annoyance will continue for at least a little bit longer.

 

[Incandenza]

Genuinely surprised to learn Paste Magazine still exists

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

The Secret History Behind Pitchfork’s Most Notorious Review

A deep dive into the "authorship" of the infamous Jet monkey-piss review and the early days of the influential indie music publication

www.theringer.com

Finally the long form article on the monkey peeing in his mouth review of that Jet album that I have been waiting for.