Eugenia L<p>For me, the best music was made in the '80s (pop/rock), some alternative rock in the 1990s and early 2000s, and then the Pitchfork indie-era between 2003-2012 (folk, experim. electronic).</p><p>Since then, it has been one song here, one song there that I like. Maybe I'm difficult, or old. But given that most GenZ listen to older music too according to Spotify, I think I'm on the right side of things. We currently live in a cultural void.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/musik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>musik</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pitchfork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pitchfork</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spotify" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spotify</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/streaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>streaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/1980s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>1980s</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/indie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>indie</span></a></p>
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#Bandcamp is down. #Pitchfork has folded. Bummer vibes in the music industry this morning.
pretty despondent that GQ is "folding in" #pitchfork. despite covering less-interesting-to-me music in recent years, i grieve for their mega-talented staff, the dismantling of one of the only fact-checking newsrooms in the music biz, the loss of an adventurous outlet (always assumed i'd return to writing there when i had the chance), the entwined failures of the #indie & mainstream #music ecosystems. their acquisition-to-self-gutting speed run feels like the cultural version of climate collapse.
Jesus. The last of the #music bigmags are falling... and it is disappointing. #Musicjournalism is not dying. It’s being assassinated in front of our faces. And it is very hard to watch.
Mass layoffs at #Pitchfork #Magazine as Conde Nast acquires and merge it into GQ.
Chicago Tribune · Pitchfork is being folded into GQ, as Condé Nast seeks ‘best path forward’ for music publication
Now how am I going to be informed that the new #Radiohead album is the greatest album ever released, taking the crown from the prior Radiohead album? #Pitchfork https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/17/24042208/pitchfork-to-be-absorbed-into-gq-layoffs
The Verge · Pitchfork to be absorbed into GQ
Music magazine Pitchfork is to be restructured under the GQ brand, according to an email to staff from Anna Wintour, who is chief content officer at parent company Conde Nast. A number of staff have been laid off. “After nearly 8 [years], mass layoffs got me,” longtime editor Jill Mapes wrote on X. “Glad we could spend that time trying to make it a less dude-ish place just for GQ to end up at the helm.” Here's more from Billboard.
Billboard · Pitchfork Hit With Layoffs, Restructuring Under GQ
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1) Hiroshi Yoshimura’s 1986 ambient album Surround was commissioned as a set of soundscapes for prefabricated homes.
It’s just been re-released and you can listen to one of the tracks at the end of this informative review https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/hiroshi-yoshimura-surround/ or on Bandcamp here https://hiroshi-yoshimura.bandcamp.com/album/surround
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But besides #TheQuietus I've published a few more specific things. One was last year at #Pitchfork, looking back at _Ultra_ after 25 years. What an album, then and now #DepecheMode #music https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/depeche-mode-ultra/
PitchforkDepeche Mode: UltraRead Ned Raggett’s review of the album.
It wouldn't be a proper #Pitchfork festival if it didn't rain at least one day, right?
#Chicago