How many synths must a Malkmus use, before you stop talking about his old band? How many vocals must be autotuned, in order to Chop & screw a Lamb?
These questions and more will go unanswered in this action-packed edition of Best New Podcast!
Stephen Malkmus - Groove Denied
American Football - S/T
Jenny Lewis - On The Line
Lambchop - This (is what I wanted to tell you)
Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell
These New Puritans - Inside The Rose
Avey Tare - Cows on Hourglass Pond
Andrew Bird - My Finest Work Yet
Karen O & Danger Mouse - Lux Prima
As you all know by now, Best New Podcast isn't about fun. It's about beating each other at a made-up game. For fun.
We award ourselves points based on the accuracy of our predictions. Those points are awarded as follows.
Closest to the actual rating gets 3 points, unless it's a tie – then each get 1.5 points. In the event of a 3-way tie, each player receives 1 point.
A Perfect Pitch (a guess that ends up exactly matching Pitchfork's rating) awards the winner an additional 4 points. If, on the other hand, there is a tied Perfect Pitch each pitcher gets 2 points, or 1.33 points each for a triple Perfect Pitch.
Finally, an accurately guessed "Best New Music" designation yields an additional 1.5 points, while an inaccurately guessed BNP removes 1.5 points from the player's total.
Same as above, but all point values are cut in half.
Note: This scoring criteria will eventually reside in an assumedly much more pleasing-to-the-eye form on an honest-to-goodness Internet Web Site. At some point soon. The haunted Roomba that writes these show notes simply hasn't gotten around to the task of building it yet. (It's caught in a corner.)
