[music] notes: Pitchfork gig, fewer posts here

[dot_fennel]

Starting today, I'm a newswriter for Pitchfork Media (.com) with stories to appear probably every Wednesday and Friday. So I may be posting less.

They aren't opinion pieces (though opinions sneak in) and the published versions won't be 100% my wording, thus not a good substitute for reading my blog if you find yourself dependent on doing so. I'm not completely shutting down, though, either.

To mark the day, I just went down to the record store and did possibly the least hip thing I have done in years, which was to exchange an Au Pairs CD for a copy of Incesticide and a Stevie Nicks solo record. Yes, the Au Pairs rule, but do you know what does not rule? Reissuing your second album twice with two different covers so that I buy it twice because I think it's also the first album. That does not rule one bit.

Comments

[narcissuskisses.livejournal.com]

Wow, congrats on the Pitchfork gig. You're in with the elitists now. ;)

[modpixie.livejournal.com]

there's something thrilling about a real, live human being with occasionally unhip musical choices joining the trust-funded billburg ranks of pitchfork. subvert from the inside, o fennel!

[dot_fennel]

Thanks! Though, upon reading the staff bulletin board, I have learned all kinds of things about unhip musical choices which just don't make it into print. :)

(Trust-fund money: most folks seem to have non-imaginary day jobs, though I have a sneaking suspicion that Andy Beta just lives in an alley somewhere.)