Word: pitchforkness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present Edited by Scott Plagenhoef and Ryan Schreiber Simon & Schuster, 208 pages...
...Gist Ryan Schreiber was barely out of high school in 1995 when he began publishing reviews of obscure independent music on this newfangled thing called the Internet. His creation, Pitchfork Media, has been instructing indie geeks about what to like ever since. Pitchfork's overwritten-to-the-point-of-meaninglessness reviews make the online publication an easy target (Music blog Idolator used to run a regular "Pick of the Fork" feature in which readers guessed which lines came from a real Pitchfork review and which didn't; "for every bold crescendo, an incongruous tangent can disrupt the music's linearity...
...self-consciously operated around or even subverted the tropes and conventions of “pop” music in their own different ways, today’s independent music seems to be working deliberately in the opposite direction. Indie’s current incarnation—the Pitchfork generation—insists, almost to an iconoclastic extent, on wearing the vestments of that underground lineage as a sort of caricature; on aspiring, not to form in spite of experimentation, but experimentation in spite of form. The parameters and the expectations have become more apparent, but a sense of purpose...
...Separation Sunday,” The Hold Steady have become one of the most polarizing bands in indie rock. To some, they’re the new standard-bearers of the classic rock revival. Others consider them derivative and label them as the poster children of Pitchfork-induced hype. Their devotees praise their energy and earnestness, but their detractors ridicule the drugged-out, sex-crazed disillusionment that permeates their lyrics and sends hipster students into a swoon. On “Stay Positive,” the Brooklyn band presents some of their most exciting and universal material to date...
...Stable Boy quickly picked up a pitchfork to mask the bulge in his trousers...