not bad, p-fork, not bad at all

The high-court of all things indie just launched their newest venture, Pitchfork.tv. It is pretty sweet, I must say. It's got a nice big screen with impeccable picture quality (go full-screen!) and a lot of good concert footage and music videos, among other things.

Below is their Man Man "Daytripping" segment posted on Monday, apparently the first-ever Pitchfork.tv production, filmed in my home town of Illadelph, PA last spring (Sidebar: The Man Men bike down the street where I helped paint a gigantic mural in the Northern Liberties neighborhood last summer, but you can't see the mural so nvm). There is no shortage of facial hair or crazy bike-related antics, and we get a peak into one of the most creative approaches to music making out there. (Think broken beer bottles, fireworks, and a dog in a bathtub.) The new album, Rabbit Habits -- which front man Honus Honus describes as "laser beam, as opposed to tractor beam" -- was released yesterday on Anti- Records. And make sure to take note of those nice, big apartments you can afford in Philly, even when you're a poor, dirty hipster! Suck it, Brooklyn!



As a final note, the Pitchfork Casting Call thing is painfully unfunny until the forth and final "audition," which seems staged, especially since I'm pretty sure the applicant is Nick Diamonds/Nicholas Thorburn of Islands.