A Few Minutes of Your Time

If you haven’t been to Videogum yet, its kind of like Best Week Ever, but less snarky, and owned by Stereogum. I wrote a brief review of it when it launched last month.

Anyways, I just found this video on there and its pretty sweet. If I had any artistic ability at all, this would be the kind of stuff I would want to do. Make sense? Yeah.

Watch it. It’s Worth it.

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I’ve always preferred Stereogum over Pitchfork Media. They’ve always seemed a bit more honest, and a bit more realistic. Stereogum’s always had a much more positive outlook…like “hey this is rad, check it out” while Pitchfork just seems like they’re there to shock people. Yea, I get it, you’re snarky, elitist assholes. Buddyhead was doing that like 10 years ago. Lester Bangs was doing it in the 70s. How could I possibly respect a site that doesn’t respect itself.

I always thought it would be funny if Pitchfork picked a really shitty band and as an experiment, gave them a great review and a ton of coverage. Just to see if their readers would devour up the bullshit and the hype would lead the next big thing. Then, without ever hearing the idea from me, they gave the first Clap Your Hands Say Yeah record a 9.0 rating. I was right. That band got huge.

Ironic, then, that this week both sites released sister-sites that focus on video. Pitchfork opened its on-demand Pitchfork TV and Stereogum launched Videogum, a blog focussing on, well, videos.

They couldn’t be more opposite. Pitchfork essentially developed their own platform of original web-TV, with exclusive interviews, video premiers, and live video. You know, kind of like Vice did with VBS.TV like two years ago. Videogum is essentially Best Week Ever 2.0. Its funny, it covers a lot of ground, and there isn’t too much structure aside from “this is a video we like, and we’re going to talk about it.

Anyways, right now I’m sticking with Videgogum. The Pitchfork platform is impressive, but until they’ve got music on there that I give a shit about, I can go without it.