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Article: PITCHFORK IS NOW BIG IN BIZ OF MUSIC TV

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April 11, 2008
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Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll ... on the Web.

Artist: Pitchforkmedia.com

Title: PitchforkTV

[Pitchforkmedia, 2008]

Rating: 7.8

OK, so much for my impersonation of a Pitchfork review. Despite my well-known proclivities toward sarcasm and cheekiness, I lack the necessary snarkitude to maintain a Pitchforkian satire for the full length of a column.

Plus, I don't know how to use words like "recombinatory" (an actual word that appeared in a recent Pitchfork review; it's not in the dictionary), although I am capable of inventing words like "snarkitude," which sounds like the kind of word you'd see in a Pitchfork review.

A little background here (another proclivity of mine is that I tend to ...

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