The Gong Show

Pitchfork + LaLa = Music Nirvana

When Pitchfork redesigned their site earlier this year, they baked LaLa widgets into all their track and album reviews.  This means that you can stream the entire album being reviewed, for free, right on the review page.

It’s really too good to be true. I do not use those words as an expression; I think it’s actually TOO GOOD to be true because I am shocked this is a sustainable model. Perhaps it’s not.  There is a small catch, you can only stream a song from LaLa once before it you are prompted to buy additional access to it for subsequent plays, but I still can’t get over the fact that I can listen to an entire album while reading the album review, for free.

I’m streaming the new Girls album as I write this post, right after I finished reading the review.