Does Entertainment Weekly Read Pitchfork?
EW Hearts Dungen, Annie and Erlend Oye in this week’s issue While not tragically behind the curve, Entertainment Weekly’s music section is usually not one of my sources for information about the unknown and under-the-radar. Nor do I think it tries to be; its target readers are not exactly Pitchfork devotees or ILM regulars. So all credit must be given to EW for running a feature (Issue #806, pg. 64) on Scandinavian acts Dungen, Annie, Jens Lekman, and Erlend Oye. EW writer Leah Greenblatt nicely encapsulates the appeal of each artist: Dungen is “a loopy Candy Land psych-rock trip”; Annie’s the “equivalent of pink champagne”; Lekman’s a “winsome troubador”; and Erlend Oye is crowned a “Renaissance man” for his DJ mixes and Kings of Convenience work. I think it’s great to see these deserving artists get props in such a mainstream magazine. Elsewhere in the same issue, EW urges us to download some M.I.A. (legally), creates some funny new genres (Brian Emo, Flock Rock and Blinger-Songwrite
