Tom Ewing on “a couple of regrettable tendencies in Pitchforkwatching,” or “conspiracy theories from people who think they’ve ‘cracked the code’”:
1. The ever-creeping-upwards margin of what seems to constitute a “bad Pitchfork score”. Bloggers are twisting their knickers over a 7.6??? (Ed. note: This link is from me, not Tom)
2. The use of figures to [...]
With every song (or band) we have a relationship (some we have yet to meet), and with the best there is romance. Mystery is the driving force for romance. You trade a little mystery for every sweet tidbit of insight you gain. Yet some of those insights lead to deeper mysteries. And therein lies the [...]
For me, editing narration tracks for documentaries used to involve a tedious process, toward the end of post-production, of eliminating everything that comes out of the narrators’ mouths, and leaving just the words themselves. Really good voiceover pros know how to do it on the fly, but for most, it’s the editor’s job to remove [...]
(Something here about unknown acts who play a marginalized style of music gaining credibility and/or irony points by entering the wider public discourse via a novelty cover)
I really shouldn’t like this–lord knows I don’t care much (or know much, tbh) about the source material or these guys–but there’s something in the sincerity of their performance [...]
Revealed: the cause of the series of calamities befalling the residents of Dillon, Texas, c. Thanksgiving 2009.
Museum of Modern Tweets (but you figured that out already).
Fetish!
From a very promising new blog. Lots of great stuff here, for those, like me, interested in the bizarre collisions between songs and soap, inter alia.