"Pitchfork News Now Just Making Shit Up"
Not content to blast the indie online zine for its album reviews' pretension, Banana Nutrament decided to investigate a few stories reported by PFork News this week:
First, Update: The Fall Tour Becomes Slightly Less ChaoticNice reporting there, Miguel. We had a feeling Pitchfork might be written by ten-year-olds. Not that we're gonna stop reading it.Whereupon we learn that Mark E. Smith, after firing his band in the middle of a US tour (no surprise there), has summoned fellow Narnack labelmates The Cairo Gang to be his new backing band. Intrigued by this, I contacted Emmett Kelley of The Cairo Gang and received this e-mail reply:
"just so that you know pitchfork conjured up the fact that i am now the Fall completely on their own. however, the truth is.....the cairo gang is opening for the Fall for the second half of the tour. starting to 23rd. i dont know if i will end up playing in the fall, but just so that you dont think i am cool because i'm in the fall.
-e"Next, Boredoms' Super Roots Coming to America
Great news. Reissues of some very expensive and wonderful EPs are going to happen. What does Vice Records have to say about this?
"This is not true at all, I don't know where they got this information from. We are discussing re-releasing some of the Super Roots records in the US, but nothing has been confirmed, and there will not be a box set. That will wait until Super Roots 10, whenever that will be."
UPDATE: Pitchfork served us with a cease & desist! (Kidding.) But Amy sent us a bunch of e-mail threads that indicate her stories were 100% correct. So we retract the whole goddamn excerpt of Banana Nutrament's blog entry. Stereogum is on no mission to prove PFork is harboring weapons of mass confusion. Though we do get pissy when Ryan doesn't respond to our e-mails.
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your soooo gonna wake up with a horsehead in your bed tomorrow.
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good thing scott mclellan's free to represent pfork to the press in the wake of this bombshell.
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The official and unofficial web sites originally reported the Cairo Gang. Perhaps Pfork made a mistake in reporting by not emailing or calling the Cairo Gang, but I don't think you can fault them for reporting what's listed on the official web site.
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Considering how full of themselves the Pitchfork writers seem to be, they are remarkably careless about what they publish on their site. There are so many really obvious typos in their content, some of which would seem to indicate that they don't even run stuff though a spellchecker. Certainly, they don't proofread most of the stuff they post.
I'm willing to tolerate a certain degree of arrogance from a site like Pitchfork, so long as they back it up by actually GIVING A CRAP about the quality of their work. However, if they can't be bothered to check their facts or proofread before they post, that arrogance is pretty hard to justify.
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Yeah, I became a little suspect when I saw this the other day.
Sufjan Stevens plays what may be the oldest banjo on earth, and ends world suffering. Stevens' recent travels to Africa brought him in contact with what appears to be a gourd with neck and strings. Women weeped as lame children walked, the sightless saw light, and empty bellies were filled. "I cried as my once rotten teeth began to sprout new, perfectly straight teeth, no braces necessary", said one elderly man.
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So Pitchfork is run by the devil its not really much of a surprise, I mean come on its called Pitchfork the clue was there all along (goes on to write The Pitchfork Code and makes a vast amount of money and is soon to be released as a film)
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chris chinchilla still has to clarify that he did *not* leave art brut by livejournal, as reported by p'fork.
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did you find mark e. smith's writing style to be nearly impossible to understand? that made almost no sense to me, but i think i got the gist.
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Maybe Pitchfork are just bored?
Probably a really bad idea, since I and quite a few others learned about Pitchfork recently through Love Monkey.
http://www.musictimes.com.au
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pitchfork is the tits, yo! but anyways, naw son i dont think i'm down with it.
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Since it turns out The Cairo Gang is not Mark E. Smiths backing band, then how is that The Fall story 100% correct? Or did they print a correction/retraction already?
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speaking of getting pissy about not replying to emails, you goint to reply to my email or do i need to start sending down some poxes?
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Is it just me or are Pitchfork too cool to review Muse stuff? Their last Muse review was Showbiz in about 1925.
They should get over themselves. Seriously. I hate how any counter-culture music publication eventually ends up doing an MTV/Rolling Stone and becoming just as pretentious and self-serving as the 'establishment' they supposedly rebel against.
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