Radiohead, The Thermals and Liars feature on Pitchfork.tv's first week
Pitchfork.tv, the online video arm of leading/infuriating music site Pitchfork, launched this week. Wired magazine’s preview was pretty effusive in its praise of the new site, claiming: “Any fan of a band featured in one of the sessions will be compelled to watch… Rather than criticizing bands, the site attempts to capture them at their finest.”
Many people will be waiting to knock Pitchfork.tv, but they’re going to have a tough job. It’s a pretty impressive set-up, even if I suspect the novelty of being able to watch music video in a frame larger the standard little YouTube box is part of the initial novelty. Nonetheless, with their brand likely to pull in some decent acts , Pitchfork.tv is ideally placed to follow its namesake website as a prime go-to location for indie-rock hipsters.
Click over for a look at what you can expect.
Don’t Look Down takes places on a roof in NYC, with the first installment featuring a no-nonsense set from hooky 3-piece The Thermals (check out “A Pillar Of Salt”).
Elsewhere there’s a nifty documentary following Pixies on their 2004 reunion tour in the One Week Only section (which will stream a different feature-length doc each week), high-quality music videos from the likes of vogueish synth-rockers Cut Copy and a live set from Liars. And I’m sure that if you’re a Radiohead fan you hardly need telling that there’s a bit of them in there as well.
Check out Pitchfork.tv here
