Recent Pieces:

Reviews:

• Ponytail: Ice Cream Spiritual Brrrr-ahh!

• Silver Jews: Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea Wish this were better

• From the Vaults: Valium Aggelein (eMusic) Tremendous fun revisiting this lost classic.

Profiles / Interviews / Features

• Roskilde I saw MBV. And some other amazing stuff. 

• Radiohead: NUDE/RE-MIX Listening to endless remixes and finding some good ones. 

• Autechre interview Very nice dude.

• Handmade's tale (Metro Times) Getting physical with Windy & Carl, Dead Machines, & Charalambides. 

• Yoko Ono (Pitchfork) Calling Yoko Ono -- yes, she's a (very nice) witch. 

Resonant Frequency:
(Pitchfork column)

• Five Notes Toward an Essay on the Primacy of Songwriting The pretentious title says it all I guess.

• Perfect World In which I mediate on perfect songs.

• There Must Be a Spanish Word for This Feeling In which I mediate on Silver Jews

• King Carp in a Dan Ryan Ditch In which I mediate on Red Red Meat.

• (all others) All kinda things.

Old favorites:

• The Wild, The Innocent, & the iPod Shuffle (Wash. City Paper) Saying hey to Killers in Sam's Town 

• Green Eyes and the Other Guy A Pitchfork column about love and mixtapes was selected as a notable essay in Da Capo's Best Music Writing 2006.

• eMusic Dozen: Glitch Still crazy about this stuff.

• Eight Fragments for Barry Gibb An older Pitchfork column in which I grapple with disco as a populist phenomenon.

• Nuno Canavarro: Plux Quba Wrote this for Sound Collector Audio Review in 2002. 

Perfection:
(records I've given a 10.0 on Pitchfork)

• Boards of Canada: Music Has the Right to Children 

• Bruce Springsteen: Born to Run 30th Anniversary Edition

• Neutral Milk Hotel: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

• Pavement: Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA's Desert Origins

(Outtakes):

• The Go! Team (written for Pitchfork, never published)

• Zaireeka Is (written for Pitchfork, no longer in archive)

• Radiohead: Amnesiac (written for Pitchfork, never published)

• One Woman, Twelve Songs (Nina Simone tribute written for Pitchfork, no longer in archive)

• Father of the Year (McSweeney's Internet Tendency)

• Lost Writings

Songs:

Mark Richardson is the managing editor of pitchforkmedia.com.

email me: mark -at- markrichardson.org

Other gigs:
33 and 1/3
Allmusic Guide
Baltimore City Paper
C-Ville Weekly
eMusic
LA Weekly
Metro Times Detroit
New York Sun
Paste
Richmond Style Weekly
Village Voice
Washington City Paper

Good people, places:
Beta
Christopher's
Detroitblog (the best site online)
Dim Sum Dance
Hardlearner
I Love Music
Josh Lowman
Justin Robbins
Popshots

Come song,
allow me some eloquence,
good people die.
-Jim Harrison