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Today, Explained

Music’s Pitchfork in the road

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Pitchfork’s parent company is folding the influential music site into GQ. Vulture’s Craig Jenkins explains how this is the end of an era. Bloomberg’s Ashley Carman says the robots are here to help. This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn and Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

My name is Eric Carvey. I'm an associate professor in the School of Communications at Grand Valley State University.

0:06.0

But I've also been writing for the website Pitch Fork since 2007.

0:10.0

In 2023, I wrote the biggest article of my career for Pitch Fork, a Sunday review of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon.

0:20.0

I spent about five or six months researching and writing and editing the review.

0:25.5

I submitted it to Pitch Fork and then they published it with a score of 9.3 out of 10.

0:31.6

And then all hell broke loose. I got more emails and social media

0:37.5

feedback than anything I'd ever written by a lot. Half of them were laudatory or congratulatory and the other half were asking me where the hell are the

0:47.6

other 0.7 points.

0:50.8

That to me is Pitch Fork.

0:53.0

On today explained the agony and ecstasy of Pitch Fork and how we'll discover music without it.

0:59.0

Support for this show comes from Krakhan.

1:02.0

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1:02.8

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

1:06.6

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like,

1:09.3

your credit score, or your outrageous food delivery habits.

1:13.0

crypto is finance for everyone, everywhere all the time.

1:18.0

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

1:21.0

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

1:24.0

This is a high-risk investment

1:25.0

and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.

1:30.0

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1:33.0

Sometimes you might feel like you're not creative,

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