What Do the Blue Moon and Pitchfork Have in Common?

We've always gotten a strong High Fidelity vibe from Pitchfork. Duh, right? The music geek relationship is hardly subtle. But now that Blue Moon booker Jason Josephes is spreading these recordings he made in Minneapolis with Pitchfork founder Ryan Schreiber back in '97 we can't even think of the music moguls at P'fork and not imagine a dank basement with matresses crammed against the walls, a mic hanging from an exposed two by four and John Cusack tapping away at a Casio singing about a naked transexual with nothing but margerine for eyes. You can hear the fat in her thighs...

Does that make Josephes Jack Black?

We emailed Josephes about the recordings earlier this week:

Are you still in touch with Ryan?

No. We haven't spoken in... five or six years? That sounds about right.

Is this like a revenge release or something?

No. I always wanted to see how people would react to the music, but I also had no idea Pitchfork was going to be so big. I never e-mailed him about this simply because he never answered my last few e-mails to him.

I was with Pitchfork for the first five years. I stopped writing when I got burned out. Admittedly, we did have a falling out over me not getting paid, but at that time I was looking to get out of writing about music (although I didn't realize it at the time.) Luckily, I've found that booking at the Blue Moon is much more interesting than weighing in on the new Arcade Fire, especially with the plethora of blogs, slogs, and screwjobs coming through my intertubes.

However, I would like to reunite at the Pitchfork Music Festival. Say, a fifteen-minute set right before Yoko Ono. Sure, my current band The Hopscotch Boys has a gig the night before, but if I can get a red-eye and we can squeeze in a half-hour practicing old favorites like "Capital Egg" and "Don't Fuck With My Sandwich, Bitch" we should be in rare form. (Very rare, as we never played live much, although I hope to have some tracks up in a week or so from our only true live recording. Our set was cut short because Golden Smog showed up and wanted to jam. True story.)

A couple people have already posted about this and the two graying rockers have since been reunited. Aww. And one of the tracks got taken down. Aww.