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Joanna Newsom, Les Savy Fav poster designers featured in HOW

By Emily

Putting my disdain for Joanna Newsom’s [style] aside, I was delighted to glimpse one of her concert posters in October’s issue of HOW, a freaking cool design magazine. The designers, Ken Hejduk, Mike Burton, and Joe Parlett, are Little Jacket, a creative force not solely committed to postermaking, yet fabulously excellent at it. […]

Review of Dusted’s Review of The Decemberists’ Picaresque

Non-Pitchfork music review sites tend to fall into two camps: the ones that toe the Pitchfork line by giving similar reviews with similar tactics, or the ones that go overboard trying to be as different as possible. New York-based Dusted falls squarely into the latter category.

In Emerson Dameron’s review of the Decemberists’ Picaresque, he […]

Review of Pitchfork’s review of Sufjan Stevens’ Illinois

In her second review of a highly anticipated independent album, (the first being Grandaddy’s 2003 album Sumday, which coincidentally is the only other album she has given a rating of 8.0 or higher to) Amanda Petrusich flexes her finely toned reviewing muscles with strong musical descriptions, brilliant summations, and a wise avoidance of Pitchfork’s now-trademark […]

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