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The Shins add a second London show to March tour - ticket details
The Shins have added a second London show to their European tour, meaning they will now play London's HMV Forum on March 22 and 23. The shows will be the band's first in the UK for four years and come just days before they release their fourth studio album ...
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Concert promotions giant AEG Live formally announced the first batch of shows for its new downtown Minneapolis rock club, the Brick. In addition to the previously revealed March 19 opener with Jane’s Addiction, the 2,100-capacity venue ...
Comments (24)
  1. Josh  |   Posted on Jul 13th, 2005

    I don’t get it. Also first post fuck yes who cares

  2. John  |   Posted on Jul 13th, 2005

    What a load of exaggerated waffle. It’s almost a ranting excuse to write eloquently about pretty much nothing, I think.

  3. Collins  |   Posted on Jul 13th, 2005

    Holy crap! So embarrassing you can’t stop reading. It’s like watching nineties sitcoms. Check out the one about The Hold Steady.

  4. Elliott  |   Posted on Jul 13th, 2005

    so is he making fun of them by posting snippets of their reviews? he’s reviewing a review? laaaame

  5. jane  |   Posted on Jul 13th, 2005

    I think it’s more of a place to do your one-stop shopping for ridiculous reviews of overhyped albums. And if you don’t get it, then you probably write for pitchfork and have a superiority complex.

  6. Horrible review, good music. Why, why?

  7. If you swim your way through the bad reviews shins will —>
    stylus —> to the National site. The vid they got posted on there doesn’t suck. Never heard these guys before, but I dug the vid.

  8. Q. What’s lamer that whiny snobs whining about whiny snobs?

    A. Whiny snobs whining about whiny snobs whining about whiny snobs. And so on and so forth.

  9. this is just more meta-cultural let’s-make-fun-of-pitchfork nonsense. aren’t we tired of bemoaning the long-winded review yet?

  10. madskrillz  |   Posted on Jul 14th, 2005

    The National is great, I recommend “Alligator” highly.

  11. Billy K  |   Posted on Jul 14th, 2005

    “All this – the new Indie rock, the bloated internet reviews, the fan sites, the hyperventilating hipsters – simply betrays a shallow emptiness throughout modern culture as a loose-knit collective strives through hyperbole to make something important and relevant where there is nothing. Trying in vain to turn a mirage into reality.

    Future generations will laugh out loud (LOL).”

    Look! I can do it, too! I’m “Meta.”

    P.S. most of these bands are boring.

  12. I think you are missing the joke. It’s not aimed solely at Pitchfork, but all music criticism everywhere (PF, like the fat kid in dodgeball, is just the easiest target). I myself have read numerous reviews that are so over-the-top with praise that it’s just ridiculous.

    The Believer magazine does the opposite with book reviews… it registers the climate of book reviewing as too “snarky,” or the “hostile, knowing, bitter tone of contempt.”

  13. jack  |   Posted on Jul 14th, 2005

    if there is any news that should be posted, it is on the purported “rigging” of the Dancing With the Stars finale. this needs more investigating.

  14. horace  |   Posted on Jul 14th, 2005

    I GOT THE JOKE.

  15. NaNa J  |   Posted on Jul 14th, 2005

    I don’t get it.

  16. haha, i half expected some of my reviews to be on there. i’m a terrible writer, but i like getting free shit. the good outweighs the bad in my little world.

  17. Belle  |   Posted on Jul 14th, 2005

    I have just enjoyed the hell out of this site…and enjoyed knowing that I am about as gushy as these guys. Gotta watch that.

  18. Erik  |   Posted on Jul 14th, 2005

    hahahaha this is great
    critics are so far up their own asshole these days
    clap your hands say yeah? shit!

  19. this made my world complete. why hasn’t this been around longer? dang, ya’ll!

  20. Platypus: I laughed at your comment but stopped abruptly when I found your LJ.

  21. jed2  |   Posted on Jul 15th, 2005

    Man, that’s some trash culture dreck for ya. You know, couple of our good friends who had been together for awhile just broke up. The feeling that reading those reviews gave me was eerily reminiscent of the feeling that hearing about their breakup gave me. Funny.

  22. Stephen Dierks  |   Posted on Jul 15th, 2005

    “Hide and Seek” is just as the Pitchfork reviewer said it is. It is a fantastic song.

  23. where did it go? WHERE DID IT GO?

    did somebody take it down?

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