Love them or hate them, Pitchfork is without a doubt the musical bible for countless impressionable young music fans looking for every scrap of commodifiable independent music culture, be it pretentious album reviews, concert coverage, fanboyish news items and new MP3s and music videos (at least, th...

The music review biz must have been hit hard by these bad economic times. In addition to music whatever, the new Pitchfork site layout features about 3 fat inches of advertisement. Picture not to scale....

According to Anderson Cooper, 50 Cent= Republican Party. Who am I to disagree with the man? A Deflated RIAA. It doesn't sound nearly as good as I expected to be. Now you can pay for your ridiculous festival tickets via installment plans!!! I mean, I get it....but part of this makes my fucking blood ...

It’s hard to believe the Pitchfork Music Festival is going on it’s 4th year. It’s definitely one of our favorites. It’s got all the big names, less space to cover, affordable food and drink prices, and it’s only a short trip from Milwaukee! Per usual, the festival offer...

The Pitchfork Music Festival is starting to roll out the acts playing Chicago's Union Park July 17-19, with the slate for Friday night—where bands will play setlists chosen by ticket buyers—being announced. The lineup is loaded with indie's elders: Built to Spill, Yo La Tengo, Tortoise (...

Graphs of Billboard’s 2008 Hot 100 and Pitchfork’s Best 100 Tracks of 2008.  I like the disparate song lengths. Maximum song length on Billboard: 5:21. Pitchfork: 17:03. Also are we not ready, as a people, to combine the post-grunge and hard rock genres? [via waxy]...

A spin around your local Internet dials... - Two great Fleet Foxes performances from last weekend's SNL - see both clips at Rolling Stone... pretty awesome singing and playing... - Pitchfork wins best headline with its story about Neil Young: "Neil Young to Release Potentially Batshit Concept Album"...

Wavves (Los Angeles, CA) I think it's insanely funny that the band's LA Blogs love to talk about hardly ever get national press while the bands that skate just under the radar and don't get written about by LA Blogs are the ones who garner national acclaim and praise. What does that say about LA Mus...

Every week in the "Shhhh-it!" AnonIMous Super-Secret Music-Biz Interview Series (S-I!AS-SM-BIS for, uh, short) we interview a grizzled music industry veteran via the topsy-turvy world of instant messaging. This week brings an interview with TheThingThatShouldNotBe, an editor at a metal magazine and ...

This is what you've all been waiting for, right? THE GOOD: Nos. 50-41 would have made an awesome alternate-universe top 10, what with Marnie Stern, Ponytail, High Places, and Beach House all being within. Alas. THE BAD: I will not quibble with the No. 1 choice and the reasons for its placement being...