RIP Pitchfork

I never had much use for Pitchfork, which always struck me as the peak of tedious music hipsterdom, but the news that it’s being shuttered and absorbed into GQ is bad nonethless. As full of shit as it may have been, I still dislike people being forced out of work. Some people are, frankly, not sorry to see it go and maybe they have a point, but even so (plus GQ is an odd magazine to merge it into). And whatever its flaws, it was quite correct about some things:

Author: James R.

The idiot who owns and runs this site. He does not actually look like Jon Pertwee.