Comments on kiss out the jams: "hmmm" or "slippery slopes"

At least straight-to-YouTube hip hop videos tend t...

2008-03-10T10:09:00.000-07:00

At least straight-to-YouTube hip hop videos tend to feature the artist performing their own song. These days indie rock videos are all "I have a friend who does puppetry/stop motion animation/performance art and they wanted to incongruously set one of my songs to their bullshit and that'll be our 'video'."

" I think 99% of all straight-to-YouTube indie roc...

2008-03-10T06:58:00.000-07:00

" I think 99% of all straight-to-YouTube indie rock videos are unwatchable horseshit"

and hiphop ones! I agree, but plenty of people do watch them.

I'm completely mystified by why people think this ...

2008-03-10T06:54:00.000-07:00

I'm completely mystified by why people think this "Pitchfork.tv" thing is a big deal or signifies some major shift in what Pitchfork does. Seems like just another addition to the portfolio along with the festival and the (ugh) "forkcast" and a dozen other things besides album reviews that have gradually shown up. Is the difference here just that it's a whole new domain name? Or because people think it'll eventually get them their own basic cable channel and they'll become Fuse? Maybe I'm biased because I think 99% of all straight-to-YouTube indie rock videos are unwatchable horseshit (especially the stuff on PF's year-end videos lists) even when I like the songs, so I have zero interest in a site like this to begin with.

someone else may start up a Pitchfork alternative ...

2008-03-09T19:07:00.000-07:00

someone else may start up a Pitchfork alternative for the readers fed up with the complacency

...and now I'm depressed that Stylus closed again.