Download or read book The Pitchfork Review Issue 12 written by Pitchfork and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pitchfork Review features original longform writing, photography comics and more. The magazine is distributed by subscription and at bookstores and speciality shops in the US and abroad. Printed on heavy stock, at a family-owned sheet-fed printer on Chicago's Printers Row, The Pitchfork Review represents the same quality and respect that Pitchfork has become synonymous with. The Pitchfork Review represents the heart of Pitchfork's editorial voice, and attracts its most loyal following. Itself a perfect-bound, book-style publication, what stems from its pages is a full-blown music and literary conversation

Download or read book The Pitchfork Review Issue 1 written by Colin Pitchfork and published by . This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With contributions from the Pitchfork staff and edited by J.C. Gabel of Stop Smiling and The Chicagoan, The Pitchfork Review is designed and conceptualized in-house, and printed locally in Chicago. This beautifully designed, limited-run publication on high quality paper stock is meant to be kept on your shelf and read and enjoyed over the long term. While we remain committed to covering the world of independent music and beyond, as well as innovating in the digital sphere, we've always been huge fans of the print medium. The Pitchfork Review will allow us to extend our passion for music, images, and storytelling into a new arena.

Download or read book The Pitchfork Review Issue 3 Summer written by J. C. Gabel and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pitchfork is happy to present the third issue of The Pitchfork Review, a perfect-bound quarterly music publication that combines new long-form feature stories, photography, illustrations and other ephemera with selected recent pieces from Pitchfork -- all packaged in a beautifully designed, collectible publication.

Download or read book The Pitchfork Review Issue 10 Summer written by Pitchfork and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pitchfork is happy to present the tenth issue of The Pitchfork Review, our quarterly music publication. This issue, we've devoted our pages to the ins and outs of music festivals, something we have a devoted interest in, given our own long-running Pitchfork Festival. The issue features expert tips on how to make festivals better for you and how to start your own. We also look at festivals as diverse as Lilith Fair, Ozzfest, Deathfest, and, of course, those run by Phish.

Download or read book Music Is written by Brandon Stosuy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From music writer and The Creative Independent/Kickstarter Editor in Chief Brandon Stosuy, comes an entertaining new board book that introduces the many moods, styles, and senses of music to the youngest audiophiles—because music is for everyone, and music is for you. Featuring Amy Martin’s dynamic art style, Music Is… explains music through our eyes and ears so that the sense of hearing is transformed into a visual experience. A pitch-perfect board book that is sure to strike a chord with readers of all ages.

Download or read book The Pitchfork Review Issue 2 written by J. C. Gabel and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We love the speed and community of the internet, but there's so much noise(and far too few filters) that important stories can get lost. We work hard on what we publish day-to-day, and put so much of ourselves into the features we run on Pitchfork.com, that we want to give pieces a second life, one that won't be lost to Google searches and Twitter archives. This publication features contributions by some of today's finest writers, illustrators, and photographers. Their work should be studied, considered, and enjoyed, not deleted. Their subject, in the pages of The Pitchfork Review, is music culture.

Download or read book The Pitchfork Review Year One Bundle written by Pitchfork and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-21 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pitchfork celebrates the first year of The Pitchfork Review Issue. We're proud to present the first four issues of our perfect-bound quarterly music publication, combining new long-form feature stories, photography, illustrations and other ephemera with selected recent pieces from Pitchfork. Each issue has approximately 160-208 pages per issue, sheet-fed printed on three-four different stocks, with a soft touch coating on the french-folded cover.

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Download or read book The Defender written by Ethan Michaeli and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “extraordinary history” of the influential black newspaper is “deeply researched, elegantly written [and] a towering achievement” (Brent Staples, New York Times Book Review). In 1905, Robert S. Abbott started printing The Chicago Defender, a newspaper dedicated to condemning Jim Crow and encouraging African Americans living in the South to join the Great Migration. Smuggling hundreds of thousands of copies into the most isolated communities in the segregated South, Abbott gave voice to the voiceless, galvanized the electoral power of black America, and became one of the first black millionaires in the process. His successor wielded the newspaper’s clout to elect mayors and presidents, including Harry S. Truman and John F. Kennedy, who would have lost in 1960 if not for The Defender’s support. Drawing on dozens of interviews and extensive archival research, Ethan Michaeli constructs a revelatory narrative of journalism and race in America, bringing to life the reporters who braved lynch mobs and policemen’s clubs to do their jobs, from the age of Teddy Roosevelt to the age of Barack Obama. “[This] epic, meticulously detailed account not only reminds its readers that newspapers matter, but so do black lives, past and present.” —USA Today

Download or read book The Pitchfork Review Issue 9 Spring written by Pitchfork and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pitchfork is happy to present the ninth issue of The Pitchfork Review, our quarterly music publication. It's our first-ever themed issue; it's focused entirely on jazz. The issue features stories about Albert Ayler, Esperanza Spalding, Don Cheadle, John & Alice Coltrane, Max Roach & Abbey Lincoln, Sonny & Linda Sharrock, Sonny Rollins, Sun Ra, Supreme, the Selmer Mark VI Saxophone, Thelonious Monk, Tomeka Reid, and Lisa Simpson.

Download or read book Why Karen Carpenter Matters written by Karen Tongson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the '60s and '70s, America's music scene was marked by raucous excess, reflected in the tragic overdoses of young superstars such as Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. At the same time, the uplifting harmonies and sunny lyrics that propelled Karen Carpenter and her brother, Richard, to international fame belied a different sort of tragedy—the underconsumption that led to Karen's death at age thirty-two from the effects of an eating disorder. In Why Karen Carpenter Matters, Karen Tongson (whose Filipino musician parents named her after the pop icon) interweaves the story of the singer’s rise to fame with her own trans-Pacific journey between the Philippines—where imitations of American pop styles flourished—and Karen Carpenter’s home ground of Southern California. Tongson reveals why the Carpenters' chart-topping, seemingly whitewashed musical fantasies of "normal love" can now have profound significance for her—as well as for other people of color, LGBT+ communities, and anyone outside the mainstream culture usually associated with Karen Carpenter’s legacy. This hybrid of memoir and biography excavates the destructive perfectionism at the root of the Carpenters’ sound, while finding the beauty in the singer's all too brief life.

Download or read book 50th Publication Design Annual written by Society of Publication Designers and published by Rockport Publishers and. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 50th edition of Publication Design Annual celebrates the winners of The Society for Publication Design's competition.

Download or read book The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic written by Jessica Hopper and published by Featherproof Books. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jessica Hopper's music criticism has earned her a reputation as a firebrand, a keen observer and fearless critic not just of music but the culture around it. With this volume spanning from her punk fanzine roots to her landmark piece on R. Kelly's past, The First Collection leaves no doubt why The New York Times has called Hopper's work "influential." Not merely a selection of two decades of Hopper's most engaging, thoughtful, and humorous writing, this book documents the last 20 years of American music making and the shifting landscape of music consumption. The book journeys through the truths of Riot Grrrl's empowering insurgence, decamps to Gary, IN, on the eve of Michael Jackson's death, explodes the grunge-era mythologies of Nirvana and Courtney Love, and examines emo's rise. Through this vast range of album reviews, essays, columns, interviews, and oral histories, Hopper chronicles what it is to be truly obsessed with music. The pieces in The First Collection send us digging deep into our record collections, searching to re-hear what we loved and hated, makes us reconsider the art, trash, and politics Hopper illuminates, helping us to make sense of what matters to us most.

Download or read book Lightning Rods written by Helen DeWitt and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited second novel by the author of “arguably the most exciting debut novel of the decade: The Last Samurai.” (Sam Anderson, New York). “All I want is to be a success. That’s all I ask.” Joe fails to sell a single set of the Encyclopedia Britannica in six months. Then fails to sell a single Electrolux and must eat 126 pieces of homemade pie, served up by his would-be customers who feel sorry for him. Holed up in his trailer, Joe finds an outlet for his frustrations in a series of ingenious sexual fantasies, and at last strikes gold. His brainstorm, Lightning Rods, Inc., will take Joe to the very top — and to the very heart of corporate insanity — with an outrageous solution to the spectre of sexual harassment in the modern office. An uproarious, hard-boiled modern fable of corporate life, sex, and race in America, Helen DeWitt’s Lightning Rods brims with the satiric energy of Nathanael West and the philosophic import of an Aristophanic comedy of ideas. Her wild yarn is second cousin to the spirit of Mel Brooks and the hilarious reality-blurring of Being John Malkovich. Dewitt continues to take the novel into new realms of storytelling — as the timeliness of Lightning Rods crosses over into timelessness.

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