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Excited to announce "Elemental Meditations," a program of avant-garde films by James Cagle and Paul Sharits. Utilizing rephotography, structuralist elements, and flickers, these works provide hypnotic meditations on the possibilities of the film medium. Info + ticket link below.
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Here is the final paragraph of a letter to the editor that Steve Albini wrote to the Chicago Reader in 1994. It was directed towards a critic who wrote a year-end recap. King.
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you show up at your crush’s place and she’s wearing this, wyd?
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i encourage people to learn about art outside of twitter because you will learn virtually nothing on this site. you will think you’re learning something, because people will make grand statements like this and get tons of likes, but it’s all meaningless
Lana Del Rey is a bit like Kubrick in that she’s quite obviously the best of her era, but her art exists in a liminal space of its own, cool enough to be a cultural force but too authentic for major awards bodies to give her the honors she clearly deserves.
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(horniest white guy you know) happy lunar new year 🧧🐉
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The new
@BTS_twt
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@pitchfork
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This is real and the new Taylor album is filled with lines like this. It’s the most raw representation of your white woman coworker. “Coworker music” has never been more back.
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Just looked at this graphic and got upset by its incompetence
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@tayloroutwrote
@pitchfork
do you really think JYP cares about his artists enough to pay for reviews
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do not trust any kpop writer who thinks born pink is good, this is legitimately terrible and emblematic of the worst aspects of kpop that have come about after its massive increase in popularity the past half decade
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Back in college I used to get my friends into Fishmans by showing them “Weather Report.” Worked every single time. Here’s a live version from 1997.
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I wrote about one of the best K-pop albums of the year from one of the best K-pop groups around right now, for
@pitchfork
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people who say this never actually read the site. there was still a good, healthy amount of coverage of underground and experimental music there, and some of the best music writing on the internet was there. some of those sunday reviews are all-timers, especially.
Lotta "Pitchfork is dead" posts today.
That publication and festival has been cooked and shifted to maximum profits for years.
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a friend of a friend gave me a 4-day vip pass for lollapalooza for free and i am very grateful and i just want to say the space that vip folks have is ridiculous lol. like why is there this much space between GA and the stage lol
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does anyone wanna be my girlfriend so i can buy this for you
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It has come to my attention that people think SM paid me to say Red Velvet (
@RVsmtown
) are “the best idol group alive.” I must confess it’s true. In fact, Lee Soo-man personally flew to Chicago, handed me a copy of his 1986 solo album and said, “please say RV are the best.”
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the bots are so good now
Huge tip for Bandcamp Friday: Mississippi Records is releasing the soundtrack for the 1976 gothic Iranian masterpiece CHESS OF THE WIND. This LP also features unreleased music from pioneering composer Sheida Gharachedaghi & filmmaker Mohammad Reza Aslani.
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Congratulations to the best K-pop group of all time for maintaining their title
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RIP Ryuichi Sakamoto, one of the most wildly ambitious artists ever. His career is so brilliant & varied that it’s an embarrassment of riches. I am very fond of his pop albums but my fav is maybe the sampling madness across his 1985 masterpiece Esperanto.
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Julia Holter talked about this in my recent interview with her
songs aren’t poetry and it drives me crazy when these unrelated words for different creative products are used interchangeably… i don’t have to die on this hill because it is just a normal fact
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Some of the only “Asian representation in music” I cared about as a kid was listening to Can and having my mind blown, and then watching videos of them performing and seeing Damo Suzuki look like the coolest dude in the room, freely traversing his different vocal deliveries. RIP.
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One of the less obvious but still devastating repercussions of streaming is the absence of liner notes. There's just so much context being lost, whether we're talking long essays and oral histories or just official credits. That music isn't organized by labels doesn't help.
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Can’t find the original tweet that had this image but I can’t stop looking at it
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Here are four overlooked albums that Steve Albini recorded that I wanna recommend:
• Johnboy - Claim Dedications (1994)
• Yona-Kit - Yona-Kit (1995)
• The Hosemobile - What Can & Can't Go On (1999)
• A Whisper In The Noise - Through The Ides Of March (2002)
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if someone writes an article, gets fired, and then self-published that article and it mentions that the artist and their management had to block them and were worried about things getting scary… why exactly are we gassing this up
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RIP Steve Albini. What is there to say. An unquestionable legend who changed how so many people understood rock music throughout the past four decades.
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I wrote about BADモード (Bad Mode), the monumental new album from
@utadahikaru
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For
@nprmusic
I wrote about
@JYPETWICE
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This person gets these two eras of the site wrong, happens all the time with people who didn’t actually read the site. Embarrassingly, he calls MGMT a great band and claims Pitchfork broke them (Oracular Spectacular got a 6.8 and the band was never featured in a year end list).
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RIP Mimi Parker. Low has been one of those life-long bands for me. I'm happy to have had the chance to interview Mimi & Alan last year. Knowing more about who she was as a person, and how the two worked together creatively, has stuck with me and is what I'm thinking about today.
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For
@pitchfork
I reviewed the new
@NewJeans_ADOR
mini album “Get Up”, which I’ve heard 72 times in the past couple weeks. Heard “Super Shy” & “ETA” at the club this past weekend too, which just confirmed for me that NewJeans are the best K-pop group rn.
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i often think about how in 1977, a teenager who went by “snoopy” made a list of the best 125 dub albums, a process that involved going to record stores around london & hearing everything he could. that enthusiasm should define every music writer… the passion should be obvious!!!
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Watch a film that Sakamoto soundtracked today. There are films from Nagisa Ōshima & Bernardo Bertolucci, Ichikawa’s TONY TAKITANI, Almodóvar’s HIGH HEELS, Murakami’s TOKYO DECADENCE, Cammell’s WILD SIDE, and this bonkers 1985 short called ADELIC PENGUINS.
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listening in on a first date… guy just said “i have no passions in life” lmao
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There have been close to zero music writers who’ve written about “3-Step,” the newest development in South African house music. Thakzin seems to have coined the term, and said the style was made as a way to bridge Amapiano and AfroTech. This is his song “Libalele” with Nana Atta.
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Music streaming services and algorithms are a problem because they make finding music a little *too* easy while convincing you that you've found the best stuff there is, but finding out about good art will always require digging. You need to put in time, effort, research, etc.
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Any K-pop song with “pots n pans” energy is good, but Red Velvet are the only group right now who can sell a regal concept. They have the vocal prowess to sell the decorum. Everyone else is playing with Fisher Price, Red Velvet are playing with Le Creuset.
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RIP Yukihiro Takahashi. His work with YMO and his early 1980s albums are all crucial, but I want to point everyone towards a favorite lesser-known album: "La Pensée," which he made in collaboration with fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto.
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Can is the quintessential music nerd band. They’re the gateway to so much outré music for so many people. And the thing is, you don’t explore the rest of krautrock or experimental rock music at large without gaining clarity that Can were, in fact, one of the best to ever do it.
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Just learned that Kate Bush’s 1980 Christmas performance of “Babooshka” was recently uploaded to the INA Chansons YouTube channel in HD. I just watched it five times in a row.
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I’ve been listening to Japanese “environmental music” for more than a decade now, but this is my first time watching a film from that era with a similar soundtrack *and* with specific images that capture the same childlike spirit. Feels revelatory.
SURFACE (Jun Kurosawa, 1989)
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Black Pumas are unequivocally the worst artist to ever headline Pitchfork Music Festival. Even if you like them, every single person knows that this is an egregious choice and that it feels like a harbinger of terrible things to come after the GQ merger announcement. Legit sucks.
There's gonna be good times ❤️🔥
#P4kFest
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3-Day and 1-Day GA, PLUS, and VIP tickets are on sale now here:
Get yours now before prices go up!
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if your band makes this much good music in the span of a decade then you’re the best band of all time
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personally, i would crawl like a viper through these suburban streets and make love to this woman
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i don’t know how you can be on music twitter for a single day and think the average music fan has surpassed the need for music criticism. y’all talk about the same boring albums every single day with your prompt tweets.
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learning that slowdive’s “souvlaki space station” was directly inspired by ar kane is cool because it’s just one of the million things in music that you can verifiably trace back to dub reggae, which is of course the greatest music ever made
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Thinking about how Past Lives is shallow in every aspect—its characterizations, its dialogue, the actual story. It’s a movie for people whose ideas of emotional complexities need to be carefully spoonfed. You watch a film from Hamaguchi or Ishikawa and it’s night and day.
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@cinemattie
i liked this theory that clara bow was not white where they then used these photos with shadows on them as evidence
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babe wake up the gumamina samples are listed on luckyscent
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been 6+ weeks of school and the 2023 releases that my 15-year-old students talk about & like are peso pluma, newjeans, olivia rodrigo, sexyy red, travis scott, mitski, slowdive, jpegmafia/danny brown, laufey, various rage rappers, and random soundcloud nightcore or dnb remixes
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It’s finally happening: I am interviewing the legendary Japanese producer Shinichi Atobe. This will be the first interview he has ever done, and it will be happening tomorrow. If you have any questions, please let me know.
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this tweet inspired me to get ethiopian for lunch
ethiopian is the best food because it looks like this
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I think it's extremely valuable to understand the music that someone dislikes. Like, I just read a Fishmans interview from 1996 where they said they recently heard Tortoise and didn't like them because the music had "too much of an idea" that it was forcing. Makes total sense.
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Didn’t mention this in the review but NewJeans are the first K-pop group post-BTS and Blackpink where I feel like the music is a direct response to the homogenization of K-pop’s sound since getting international acclaim. They feel extremely distinct in this way.
For
@pitchfork
I reviewed the new
@NewJeans_ADOR
mini album “Get Up”, which I’ve heard 72 times in the past couple weeks. Heard “Super Shy” & “ETA” at the club this past weekend too, which just confirmed for me that NewJeans are the best K-pop group rn.
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Very honored to have been asked to participate in
@billboard
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@Jeff__Benjamin
@catrkelley
@lavanyasingh20
@cashmonirecords
and
@tamarwrites
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just blows my mind that people ACTIVELY listen to podcasts (???) when they could be listening to music instead (?????)
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when a white person recommends a mexican restaurant and the tacos come out in these you know it’s game over
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Huge tip for Bandcamp Friday: Mississippi Records is releasing the soundtrack for the 1976 gothic Iranian masterpiece CHESS OF THE WIND. This LP also features unreleased music from pioneering composer Sheida Gharachedaghi & filmmaker Mohammad Reza Aslani.
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it’s the easiest way to listen to pop music from around the world. if you couple the platform with the every noise site (specifically the “new releases by genre” page), you can discover stuff in ways that vastly outpace every publication and algorithmic playlist
i remain surprised at how many people still use spotify
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Rolling Stone said Blackpink was born to make garbage 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
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student wore a king crimson shirt on day 1 and has a this heat shirt on day 2… high expectations for day 3
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it’s important to listen to music in languages you don’t understand. hearing words without any associated semantic meaning allows for appreciation of language on a purely rhythmic and sonic level. and then when you *do* learn the lyrics, you approach them with humility and care.
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Fascinated by the new Cruel Santino song “FTR”, which has rage synth production low in the mix as mbalax percussion scurries over it
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looking at every pub’s year end list for music/film and like… aren’t y’all bored that we’re championing the same things, that we’re not taking risks, that we’re regurgitating what pr feeds us, that there’s a consensus on what “good taste” is? where are the freaks and nerds at
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New TWICE single is probably the best English-language track from a K-pop group ever? It's a bit too stodgy to feel as thrilling as a classic Atlanta Bass track (partly the mix, partly how the kick sounds), but you can tell it was written by Black women.
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Some personal news: I just signed a contract for my very first book, to be published by
@RepeaterBooks
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@toneglow
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to highlight one thing: the heavier emphasis on singing in english is de facto bad. when you sing in two languages, you have two different phonologies to work with—more possibilities. singing in english also moves the corny rap verses from campy or teen-pop-passable to cringey
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really funny that james blake was like “something needs to change, artists need to get paid” and then he launches a website where you… pay a monthly subscription to hear his music. this has never been done before. good job.
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people say things like “[blah blah blah] is not a personality” all the time and at this point i’m not even sure what it means to have a personality
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pitchfork is forming a new rock music canon and i’m ok with it
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For
@RollingStone
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I always use this LP to point out how warped musical history is. This was the highest selling Japanese album of the 80s. In 2013 I was the 1st/2nd person to rate it and multiple Tatsuro Yamashita albums on RYM. Everyone loves city pop and Tatsu now… how many Americans know this?
I was browsing dubstore's deals section and found what is possibly the hardest album cover of all time
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People say this a lot (including myself) and then one day I realized that I sometimes do hours and hours of research for no writing at all! And what a joy… to be invested in learning about art, that’s why I’m alive.
Music journalism is doing 30 minutes of research for an 80-word blurb
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they exist in japan
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joshua minsoo kim is a bitch because he really likes music and really cares about it and doesn't think bones is the greatest rapper all of time we don't care that you interviewed important figures that never been interviewed before you never interviewed bladee or slim jesus
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One of the most important things you can do with your life is constantly place yourself in positions where you realize you're a dumbass. Where you know the least in the room. Where you feel so out of your depth that you need to trust others and learn through interacting w/ them.
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Here is Koichi Shimizu, a longtime sound designer for Apichatpong Weerasethakul, explaining the sort of requests that the director makes for the music that ends up in his films and installations. The full interview is up at
@toneglow
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if you think this is true then you’re not locked in
Disconcerting that we're four years into the 2020s and yet there have been absolutely zero (0) cultural developments to separate us from the 2010s. Have decades ended?
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saw an avant-garde puppet theater show last night and i’m fully convinced that this medium is something i need to be fully invested in. very moved by its transparent legibility, of being able to see how a performer’s action directly effects the art they’re making.
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at times, their cursing legit sounds like a teenager finally swearing in front of their parents for the first time! blackpink excel w/ imperial pomp or thrilling genre blending; this is so straightforward and low-energy and sounds like an american pop album (derogatory).
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I have been paying roughly $1000 every month for the past 7 years to pay off my student loans. They have weighed on my mind with every single financial decision I’ve made as an adult. Today, I’m free. Overcome with emotion right now.
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It exists because we *do not* have access to "any song whenever"
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(me trying to exclude gen z from twitter prompts) what’s your favorite album that came out when you were 30?
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Enough time has passed: Here are my favorite albums of 1962
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(me trying to help a friend who is feeling sad) Let’s listen to Miu Sakamoto’s 1998 classic “Eternal,” which was produced by her father, Ryuichi Sakamoto
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(me trying to get people mad)
What's the biggest dip in quality for 2 consecutive albums?
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something interesting about video games is that you go into them understanding that there are difficulty levels. that mindset is valuable imo, and while i wouldn’t want that framework to be true for music, i wish more people embraced the notion of being challenged by art.
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it’s a bit confusing for me that people are considerably moved by andre’s bravery in making this new record. he has money and resources and people who will wanna help him. smaller artists do this all time, at much greater risk. regular people make big career changes too.
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quickly whipped up this list of 25 favorite experimental albums from this year, surely forgetting stuff and also kept things in the sound art / field recordings / ambient / musique concrète / minimalism / noise zone
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Music From Memory is one of the best labels of the past 10 years, accomplishing something that most never get close to doing: releasing both archival & contemporary works that are in dialogue w/ one another, allowing for an intergenerational, expansive understanding of music. RIP
Music From Memory cofounder Jamie Tiller has died
Read the news
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RIP Terence Davies, one of the great filmmakers. He was singular in capturing memories, understanding their feel and impact, and the way they hover in your mind and non-linearly connect. He could depict the totality of an experience in all its sensuality and personal grandeur.
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