May 20, 2015 Factmag for the features and lists Pitchfork for the reviews Fader if I want to see a good rapper interview Noisey to get NYC show info and recaps Complex for the TMZ s--- wubbout u?
May 20, 2015 The main websites I usually use are sites that post new different music like earmilk, justrecognize , or I heavily go through soundcloud or bandcamp while i'm pooping to find new stuff. I hate pitchfork, Complex and all that s--- for news and stories. Forums/tweets and s--- are really the way to go for the news, I don't care about a list of top 5 instagram photos of T.I on vacation, or a 8.4 on the Barter 6, and any site that includes those two things I listed are some jokes. All I really want is new different stuff that's good that comes out. Revolt and Noisey/Vice are good though.
May 20, 2015 I don't really read any. I don't keep up to date with modern music. I just find stuff via RYM.
May 20, 2015 Lmao. I read SlantMagazine and TheDissolve for film. I just don't enjoy music journalism very much.
May 20, 2015 The Dissolve 2good. Definitive film publication for me. They seem to never get it wrong, and I don't mind the fact that Pitchfork basically came in to the AV Club with an offer to create "Pitchfork but for movies" and all the writers worth a d--- jumped ship immediately. Their film section has been f----- up ever sense, and I enjoy that schadenfreude.
May 20, 2015 I feel like TV shows don't need much explaining. I really don't need a full article to understand what happened in The Mindy Project last week. Film journalists more often give me the stuff I want. Music journalism feels like a spelling bee / pissing contest whenever I mistakenly try some of it out.
May 20, 2015 tv criticism is important because television as a medium is more interactive with culture. but week-to-week synopses are not important, i agree with you there. pitchfork is worth reading, if only because they employ nearly every music writer worth your time in some capacity. (as a sidenote, their senior editor, jayson greene, tragically lost his two-year-old daughter this week http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/18/n...alling-bricks-outside-manhattan-building.html) they are also possibly the only publication willing to publish negative reviews in an apolitical way. noisey will cover things that few other publications will touch. in general, you should find which journalists and critics you enjoy reading, follow them on twitter and get their work that way. every outlet has some bad writers, it's just that some are 99% bad and others only 20%. also, passion of the weiss.
May 20, 2015 I'm sure some tv like SNL or the oscars and s--- can be the subject of good or at least entertaining journalism. But sites like the AV Club will just hand you an A for pointing a camera at something and cultivate these huge idiot fanbases for complete garbage. Assigning deep meaning to shallow s--- is a cardinal sin
May 20, 2015 @WPG Pitchfork has the worst followers of all time. They are infinitely worse than the publication. I also don't follow new music closely, so a lot of publications are irrelevant to me. Don't have that problem with film. @Blorpy Can't agree more. I honestly think A LOT of television is garbage. The best stuff just tries to be like film...
May 20, 2015 this is the kind of statement that sounds nice, but how do you apply it? i agree that bad critics often draw "deep" "meaningful" conclusions from work where not a lot is going on beneath the surface. but if no one is trying to parse something, who's to say what's there?
May 20, 2015 I mean, I think it's okay to parse stuff that clearly has subjective interpretation. There's a lot more justification for True Detective having a lot of extrapolation than The Walking Dead.
May 20, 2015 but where do you see people over-analyzing TWD? lol i dont really see where the blanket statements being made about TV right now are coming from
May 20, 2015 maybe in 2006. today, the blind pitchfork follower is like the white fan who "ironically" likes chief keef--both people might actually exist, but they're few and far between. pitchfork has hit a critical mass where turning your nose up at them is the default. any rap forum has threads dedicated to trashing pitchfork, but their traffic numbers keep growing. right, so long as you and @Blorpy acknowledge that you're rejecting a certain kind of criticism, not the practice writ large. good criticism of any medium focuses on technical aspects as well, not just the political implications of a work. it's why dart adams can't write intelligently about young thug, or why ao scott doesn't dismiss michael bay off the cuff.
