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Here is a short mini-doc that follows Fly Lo around the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago. Also check-out a recent guest mix on BBC Radio 1Xtra here . Wolfey [...]

Link: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/t racks/13649-silhouettes/ Ryan Schreiber is an indie blog innovator behind Pitchfork Media . He started his blogspot, it blew up and replaced dying magazines, and now he just pays people who are desperate 2 be associated with the Pitchfork brand 'content farm prices', attempting to produce branded alt content. Schreiber recently decided to descend from his stacks of buzz bucks in order to 'get his hands dirty', doing the work of the content farmer. He decided to give the popular EDM DJ act " AVICII " Best [...]

UK singer/song writer Jamie Woon debut album, Mirrorwriting is an album that we still play to this day. Woon sits down with Pitchfork's +1 series and speaks on the process of making electronic records and the influence that his mom's music career had on him.

Link: http://www.pitchfork.com/news/ 45567-pitchfork-festival-annou nces-dates-initial-lineup/ Pitchfork Music Festival is a 'cash cow' for the Pitchfork Media Group, making 'mad bank' from fringe-alts who vibe to festivals but don't really check out blogs that much. More importantly, the festival is a LIVE BRAND that exists as a way 2 show bands 'who wears the pants' in the blog-vs-band relationship. Most bands that headline Pitchfork Music Festival are guaranteed above an 8.7, and Vampire Weekend 's headlining slot means that they will be 'shielded' from any sort of indie-blog-backlash, even if [...]

Portlandia isn't actually a 'comedy show', it's just a relevancy pyramid scheme that involves the inclusion of random indie celebs, then every1 has 2 blog about it because it is the only interesting way that an alt celeb musician like St. Vincent could 'get press.' Just let Fred Armisen invent some dumb role for u, and ur all good to go, set free into the indie memesphere. Anyways, last Friday's episode included a parody of Pitchfork founder and CEO Ryan Schreiber. In the sketch, some buzzband achieved maximum relevancy, and the Schreiberian character [...]

Link: http://pitchfork.com/features/ why-we-fight/8679-tk/ Lana Del Rey is known as 'the fakest broad in indie.' She was a failed mainstream artist, but now she's invaded the indiesphere, and because the indiesphere is a) super boring, therefore desperate to ride and human meme until they burn out AND b) obsessed with attractive females, Lana Del Rey has basically already earned blogosphere tenure. Pretending u have an opinion of this broad is way more interesting than pretending you have an opinion on some lofi band's latest shitty mp3/video. [...]

Monday Afternoon Quick Fix runs every Monday afternoon to showcase the best of Chicago music news, views and stories from around the interwebs and blogosphere that we might have missed. • Rockers Company of Thieves appeared on 93 XRT’s Local Anesthetic with Richard Milne two Sundays ago and the station posted the audio for all to hear. • Nordic Thunder, the Chicago man The Reader profiled in last Thursday’s issue , took second place in the Air Guitar World Championships . Whoa. And, Miles Raymer interviews some [...]

Link: http://www.pitchfork.com Pitchfork.com is known as 'The King of Indie Music Blog Websites' bc it emerged as an early entrant 2 the blog scene, using a high-level editorial brand 2 convince ppl to 'take it seriously' as a music recommendation service. Like most websites on the internet, it must adapt to meet the users of contemporary-wave/modern internet users. It seems to have launched an ALL NEW redesign that attempts to make it more competitive in the current internet landscape. Do u think it is a 'design success' or [...]

Fugazi sure is coming up in the räwkosphere a lot lately (see the Wu-Tang Wugazi project and news of their digital live archive ), but this performance at the Pitchfork Music Festival may take the cake. If anyone has a link to a better audio version of this pretty-please send my way. • •    • • RELATED: WTF MP3: Fugazi + Wu-Tang Clan = Wugazi SXSW: [...]

Pitchfork is a mega alt brand that started out as a lil music website b4 blogspots even existed, but now they are probably at the top of the Fortune 500 list of alt companies. Making mad bank, producing premium, sponsored content, and extending their internet brand in2 reality by hosting showcases and festivals in relevant areas of the country. Now it seems like p4k continues to 'go global' by launching Pitchfork Paris. I don't know much abt French ppl, but I assume that they all just listen 2 Jousteece and dance around 2 [...]

Link: http://latimesblogs.latimes.co m/movies/2011/06/mark-duplass- jay-cyrus-jonah-hill-jeff-live s-at-home-jason-segel.html Apparently, some trendy writers penned some script called "Pitchfork." The type of writer bros who write meaningful bro comedies about bros 'coming of age' after a series of quirky events that lead you to question the spirit of bro, and make the brotagonist wonder if he will ever grow 'beyond a bro' to 'become a man.' Anyways, this headline seems trendy because the name of the movie is "Pitchfork." I don't know if mainstreamers know about that indie music site. [...]

Link: http://www.time.com/time/speci als/packages/article/0,28804,2 058044_2060338_2060224,00.html Image by The Mainstreamer Pitchfork Media is a popular music news and reviews site, and they also have a festival, and they are 'super influential' when it comes 2 the indie scene, replacing mainstreamer old magazines as the #1 source 4 indie buzzbands. Anyways, the 'genius' behind Pitchfork Media is some bro named Ryan Schreiber. Basically, he effectively turned Pitchfork into an authentic content farm filled with employees who still think they are 'real writers' and [...]

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It seems like we finally can say "The new Strokes album rlly, rlly sux and was a huge letdown and it might be EVEN WORSE than the MGMT Congratulations flop of 2k10." The popular alt blogzine Pitchfork magazine 'panned the eff out of it.' I think they still sell albums, so magazines like Rolling Stone and SPIN have to pretend the album/band still 'has it', but this is a CLEAR MESSAGE from the indiesphere that 'we are done with the Strokes, except might still post about them bc they generate traffic.' It seems like [...]

Okay, we have to say that this song is growing on us very fast. Related Articles Lykke Li: May Tour (jambase.com) Watch Lykke Li Perform "Live on the Moon" (pitchfork.com) Lykke Li: Wounded Rhymes, CD review (telegraph.co.uk) Watch Lykke Li Perform on Fallon (pastemagazine.com) Single Of The Week: Lykke Li - I Follow Rivers (brights38.wordpress.com) WATCH: Lykke Li 'Gets [...]

I just saw the new Pitchfork Music Festival logo, and it looks pretty alt. Like it might be the background .jpg to my new indie underground altered zone wave blog that also has a vintage minidisc label... Sure it looks alt... but is it 'mainstream enough' to really present the p4k brand to the mainstream bro type? Can they really 'slap that bad boy on a t-shirt and sell the hell out of it' to all of the lamestreamer Midwesterners who go 2 Chicago for Lollapalooza? I sorta miss the old vibe... [...]

'I Follow Rivers ' By Lykke Li February 28th  sees the release of ‘ Wounded Rhymes, ’ the second album, (or snigger, the sophomore album if you're a pretentious arse) from  Lykke Li. It's an album that certainly looks set to turn her into a BIG star. But not a pop star,  heavens no, please don't call her that , lest you prepare yourself for a tongue lashing, and be warned she doesn't mince her words -' pop music has this negative, fake and disgusting image. And that is [...]

Link: http://www.yearinreviews.com/ From what I understand, tons of indie music fans read Pitchfork reviews in order 2 'keep their finger on the pulse' of what 'authentic music critics' have 2 say about the world's most relevant albums. So many scores throughout the year that u sorta need a place to 'look back' on the year and be like "Oh yeah... So that's what 2k10 was all abt." Anyways some bro used 'the web' to make some site that graphically displays [via bar graph] the range of scores. [...]

Good music is on the way according to Pitchfork's new music  list. My personal faves: oOoOO: oOoOO [Tri Angle] The Orb/ David Gilmour:  Metallic Spheres [Columbia] Gonjasufi:  The Caliph's Tea Party [Warp] Tricky:  Mixed Race [Domino] A Band of Bees:  Every Step's a Yes [Fiction] Antony and the Johnsons:  Swanlights [Secretly Canadian] [U.S. release] Beach Fossils: "Face It"/"Distance" 73 [Captured Tracks] Die Antwoord:  $0$ [Cherrytree/Interscope] Gold Panda:  Lucky [...]