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The Garden State Soundtrack Will Change Your Life
“Indie music never belonged to anyone, but at least in the early ’00s, it was easier to pretend it did.”
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The First Names of Every Tom Cruise Role
Or how to name your white, male baby.
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To Infinity and Beyond
Or how a ten-hour loop of Daft Punk signals the coming post-scarcity economy.
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Is the Harlem Shake Offensive?
The Harlem Shake and the dangers of cultural appropriation.
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Profile Bios of Twitter Spambots
This is what the robots think of us.
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Are We Over SXSW?
Like everything on the internet, the backlash to the country’s largest tech conference is warranted but also too vocal.
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See The Bygone Bureau at SXSW
If you’re in Austin this weekend, check this out.
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There’s a New Phoenix Song and I Have Listened To It Twenty Times
“There is a part of me that wants Phoenix to never change.”
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Bright Colors, Big Island
Proteus is the videogame you’d get if you crossed Leaves of Grass with Minecraft.
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Despite the '90s hair and Gary Shandling's awful suits, The Larry Sanders Show holds up remarkably well twenty years after its HBO debut. It's often considered a peer to Seinfeld and a strong influence for The Office, but Larry Sanders's meta-concept reminds me more of Louie. Gary Shandling play ...
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I'm the only person I know that didn't love Argo. It's an enjoyable film, but aside from one or two scenes, entirely forgettable. The swiftness of Argo's storytelling comes at the loss of any meaningful development in plot or character. Really, it's less of a story and more a series of things th ...
The Problem with Argo (Is Not the Problem with Zero Dark Thirty) -
There is no shortage of smart, beautiful things going on at Pitchfork. The indie music site launched a new feature this year called Advance, a section dedicated to full-album streams of select upcoming releases. NPR has been doing something similar for a while with their First Listen series (sin ...
Listening Ahead: Pitchfork Advance