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Henry: Hammie, I use Pitchfork often, I love music, and I’m a sucker for a kickin’ melody, but isn’t it awful when people regurgitate opinions from the Internet, shunning certain music for fear of banishment or, worse yet, pretending to love everything for the sake of undermining said stereotype...
...know those people who claim eclectic musical taste? These claims are mostly empty. Anyone who writes “eclectic” on thefacebook.com listens to and loves anything Pitchfork feeds them. Eclecticism’s most common manifestation in college is a playlist full of Pitchfork favorites with some token polka/showtunes/Bulgarian songs intended to impress or throw off any curious onlisteners...
...that they’re more like the boiler pressure vents than real changes—the majors allow them to exist because they can satisfy the artistic elite, and so the majors don’t need to change their own operating strategies to appeal to the outspoken Pitchfork crowd (nothing against Pitchfork, mind...
...while separately writing features and reviews for the online album-reviewing site, Pitchforkmedia. Sylvester is currently an associate editor for Pitchfork and writes regular reviews for the site, in addition to writing for the Village Voice and the Boston Phoenix...
While attending Harvard, Sylvester made his enrollment in the college known in his Pitchfork reviews; references to Cambridge and Harvard pop up in reviews of Wig in a Box: Songs from and Inspired by Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Daft Punk’s remix album Daft Club. For the latter, Sylvester, a former writer for the Harvard Lampoon—a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine—collaborated with Lampoon cartoonist Farley T. Katz ’06 to create several cartoon panels, with hilarious results...