village voice music editor, nyu adjunct, accidental blogging pioneer. i like loud music and room-temperature seltzer, and my dream job is to be chief fact-checker of the internet.Oh here we go.
So this whole Pitchfork/Tumblr/Tumbledore kerfuffle — which Tumblr handled really poorly and shadily, make no mistake — has already mutated into “Pitchfork sucks” and “I never would deign to get my musical tastes from Pitchfork” and blah blah blah. It is rancid and stupid and it drives me crazy because it clings to this outdated notion of “Pitchfork” that has not been true since Brent DiCrescenzo was on the masthead, if ever.
Some of the best music writers working right now are writing things for Pitchfork. Nitsuh Abebe, Douglas Wolk, Jess Harvell, Eric Harvey, Tom Ewing. Some of them have Tumblrs! With posts that you’ve probably liked! I wonder how many people would hit the like button on a piece of writing by one of these writers that appeared on Tumblr and would summarily sneer at the same exact piece were it to be published by Pitchfork.
