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16 unusual facts about Pitchfork Media


20 Minute Loop

This album received much more publicity, with positive reviews from Pitchfork, Allmusic, and CD Universe, et alia; yet the group still remained fairly unknown.

A Song for a Son

Ryan Dombal of the online magazine Pitchfork Media described "A Song for a Son" "an epic" saying that "There's a contemplative intro, a shredding solo, and plenty of classic rock panache in between".

Between the Devil and the Sea

Pitchfork Media's Liz Colville wrote a mixed review, criticizing the opening track "Oh Be One" for its lyrics, percussion and predictability, while complimenting the band's few "glimpses of raging passion" elsewhere on the EP.

Cortez the Killer

Jim Jarmusch, Bradford Cox and Randy Randall covered the song in 2009 for a video on the website of Pitchfork Media.

Danger! High Voltage

The song is listed at #234 on the best songs of the 2000s by Pitchfork Media.

DJ Oneman

Pitchfork Media rated the album a 8.0 and stated that, "Applauding FabricLive.64 for its potential didacticism, though, would be unjustly ignoring just how much fun it is to listen to, how easily and pleasantly it moves, how Steve Bishop is playing to the rafters and pulling out all the stops when his name alone represents a seal of approval for many.

Ed Askew

Pitchfork and many other high-profile music media praised his work, labeling him as a NY legend.

Get It On Tonite

Pitchfork Media's Marc Hogan praised the track, saying that "the best and penultimate cut on Fantasea, "Esta Noche", points in a promising new direction: conversational, cheater-luring pickup lines over a warmly inviting sample from Montell Jordan's 1999 R&B hit "Get It on Tonite".

I'm Waking Up to Us

It's also ranked #73 in the "The Top 100 Singles of 2000-04", of Pitchfork Media

Mile End, Montreal

In 2005, Mile End was described in several music magazines, notably Spin and Pitchfork Media, as the heart of the independent music scene in Montreal.

Nuclear Seasons

"Nuclear Seasons" was Charli XCX's second review, and a best new track on Pitchfork Media's website.

Race for the Prize

In 2010 Pitchfork Media included the song at number 30 on their Top 200 Tracks of the 90s.

The Honeydrips

Here Comes the Future came out in 2007 and received an 8.4 on Pitchfork Media.

Wouldn't It Be Nice

Pitchfork Media placed it at number 7 on its list of "The 200 Greatest Songs of the 1960s".

Your Ex-Lover Is Dead

The song was listed as the 298th best song of the 2000s by Pitchfork Media.

Zeigeist

Pitchfork Media placed the leaked demo of "Tar Heart" at number sixty on their list of "The Top 100 Tracks of 2006".


¿Cómo Te Llama?

Marc Philippe Eskanazi (guitar, Medium Cool, The Mooney Suzuki), who toured with Hammond, played on the album according to an interview with Pitchfork Media.

Berghain

Like many Berlin clubs, Berghain hosts extremely long events; a Philip Sherburne column in Pitchfork Media describes a Carl Craig set that began at 3:00 Sunday afternoon and continued until the club's ending time.

From the Mars Hotel

Musical group Animal Collective used a sample from the song "Unbroken Chain" for their song "What Would I Want? Sky" on their EP Fall Be Kind, and have received great praise from outlets like Pitchfork Media and Sputnikmusic for their respectful and interesting usage of the sample.

Gem Club

The album was well reviewed by music sites and magazines NME, AllMusic, NPR, Pitchfork, Dusted, among others.

HIP Video Promo

The HIP Video Promo servicing and promotional network includes close to 100 programmers and programming outlets including MTV, Fuse, VH1, BET, Much Music, and Pitchfork.

Hot Shots II

Online music magazine Pitchfork Media placed Hot Shots II at number 118 on their list of top 200 albums of the 2000s.

In Our Heads

Pitchfork Media's Larry Fitzmaurice regarded In Our Heads as Hot Chip's "most playful and colorful record yet, an album-length manifestation of that 'sounds of the studio' game that cut straight through the middle of 'Shake a Fist'."

Lower Dens

Pitchfork gave the album a rating of 8.1, comparing Hunter's vocals to those of PJ Harvey and Beach House's Victoria Legrand.

Matmos

He is a contributing writer to the online music magazine Pitchfork Media, and wrote an essay about the Throbbing Gristle album 20 Jazz Funk Greats for the Continuum Books series 33 1/3.

Mia Clarke

She is also a freelance writer and has written about music for publications including The Wire, The Guardian, and Pitchfork Media.

Mount Kimbie

Blind Night Errand EP was released on 29 November 2010 on 12" vinyl and digital download. The EP included the song "Before I Move Off" of which there is a video by Tyrone Lebon which debuted on Pitchfork Media - the video is a montage of 8000 photographs. The EP also includes an alternate version of "William" remixed by Mount Kimbie themselves, alongside a live recording of "Maybes" taken from a set at the Berghain club in Berlin.

Ryan Adams and the Cardinals

Their latest album, Cardinology, was released in October 2008, and, according to Pitchfork Media, Ryan Adams & the Cardinals may be known as simply "The Cardinals" from now on.

Softcore Jukebox

According to Rob Mitchum from Pitchfork, "they've created a fantastic dance-party playlist, but one that could just as easily have been posted on their website as a guide-map through the Soulseek wilderness".

The Free Houdini

On a sampler of tracks from the album that was available for download from Pitchfork Media, you can hear that the song "Rapping 4 Money" is built from a sample of the Shel Silverstein song "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout (Would Not Take The Garbage Out)".

The Gutter Twins

In July 2007, the music website Pitchfork Media announced that the duo, "two of the alt-rock era's greatest frontmen," had signed to Seattle label Sub Pop.