R.I.P. Stylus.

crank · #1 10-29-2007, 08:27 AM

http://www.observer.com/2007/stylus-...fter-halloween

http://sickmouthy.blogspot.com/2007/....html#comments

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articl...-to-stylus.htm

dubman · #2 10-29-2007, 08:36 AM

meh

BrotherLovesDub · #3 10-29-2007, 08:54 AM

"end of an era"

that era being, Second rate Webzine desperately trying to feel half as important as Pitchfork but failing because the writers were all shit and the content sucked.

adios doods, enjoy writing shit reviews on your personal blogs now!

GreenPea · #4 10-29-2007, 09:28 AM

Bah, the Left Hand Path column was good

Actually I liked the site in general, you could find reviews of some shitty alt-country with A scores. You could really find any genre reviewed on the site really, sometimes the reviewer didnt know what the hell he was writing about but meh, at least it was not policed by pitchfork's arbiters of good taste and indiedom.

Scott Warner · #5 10-29-2007, 10:16 AM

Disappointing.

kid cue · #6 10-29-2007, 10:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BrotherLovesDub

"end of an era"

that era being, Second rate Webzine desperately trying to feel half as important as Pitchfork but failing because the writers were all shit and the content sucked.

adios doods, enjoy writing shit reviews on your personal blogs now!

do you actually TRY to make yourself angry? the editor of Stylus has never cared about being either "important" or similar to Pitchfork.

BrotherLovesDub · #7 10-29-2007, 11:12 AM

i haven't got a clue who the editor of the paper is but i've not read anything on that site that i've enjoyed.

the truth is, they were playing catch up to Pitchfork and failed at every turn. their demise was hinted at for weeks. this comes as no surprise to me.

i guess the point is, if they were good and people gave a shit, they'd still be active.

BrotherLovesDub · #8 10-29-2007, 11:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kid cue

the editor of Stylus has never cared about being either "important" or similar to Pitchfork.

"to the guys who posted on the Turntable for a couple of weeks when we thought we were going to become a blogging force. "

orly?

so that time when they thought they were going to become a blogging force wasn't them trying to be important or compete with Pitchfork?

ok.

kid cue · #9 10-29-2007, 11:27 AM

that above statement makes no logical sense. do things only exist because they are competing with each other? do you think of everything in your life in terms of a top 10 list? do you think hot dogs are trying to play catch-up to Italian sausages, but fail miserably and should die?

Scott Warner · #10 10-29-2007, 12:11 PM

I enjoyed Stylus. I found their reviews a lot more tolerable than Pitchfork's and less self important.

I didn't get the sense that the guy was competing with Pitchfork. I mean, I run Dirtyradio and I'm not doing it to compete with anyone.

The explanation he seemed to give was that he didn't want to do it anymore.