The first-week tallies for the Pitchfork-maligned This Is Next compilation: Units Shipped: 100,000; Units Sold: 1,014. Maybe next time out they should scale back the virtual album-release party? More »
We’re pretty sure this isn’t true, but on the 5 million to one chance that it is, we are clearly too stupid to be in marketing: “Yeah, so someone I know told me this shit was partially funded by Pitchfork, and so they did that 0.0 review for that Next CD as a marketing plan to get some kind of buzz… More »
So Pitchfork‘s Matt LeMay laid the smackdown on the Now That’s What I Call Indie comp This Is Next today, bestowing upon it a 0.0 and printing a long screed about how there’s really no point to it existing, because not only is the whole concept of it “condescending,” the Forkcast had already posted the songs on it, like, months ago, man. While the comp certainly has its problems–starting with that awful, anonymous cover–one of the bloggers at Merry Swankster summed up our issues with the review’s thrust, namely that it was seemingly written by someone who’s been living in indie-land for a bit too long, quite nicely:
“Virtual Lower East Side is having a big [party] to celebrate the release of This Is Next and, to quote the Dismemberment Plan, you are invited … VLES is a photo-releastic virtual world that recreates NYC’s Lower East Side. More »
