Not content to blast the indie online zine for its album reviews' pretension, Banana Nutrament decided to investigate a few stories reported by PFork News this week:
First, Update: The Fall Tour Becomes Slightly Less Chaotic
Whereupon we learn that Mark E. Smith, after firing his band in the middle of a US tour (no surprise there), has summoned fellow Narnack labelmates The Cairo Gang to be his new backing band. Intrigued by this, I contacted Emmett Kelley of The Cairo Gang and received this e-mail reply:
"just so that you know pitchfork conjured up the fact that i am now the Fall completely on their own. however, the truth is.....the cairo gang is opening for the Fall for the second half of the tour. starting to 23rd. i dont know if i will end up playing in the fall, but just so that you dont think i am cool because i'm in the fall.
-e"Next, Boredoms' Super Roots Coming to America
Great news. Reissues of some very expensive and wonderful EPs are going to happen. What does Vice Records have to say about this?
"This is not true at all, I don't know where they got this information from. We are discussing re-releasing some of the Super Roots records in the US, but nothing has been confirmed, and there will not be a box set. That will wait until Super Roots 10, whenever that will be."
Nice reporting there, Miguel. We had a feeling Pitchfork might be written by ten-year-olds. Not that we're gonna stop reading it.
UPDATE: Pitchfork served us with a cease & desist! (Kidding.) But Amy sent us a bunch of e-mail threads that indicate her stories were 100% correct. So we retract the whole goddamn excerpt of Banana Nutrament's blog entry. Stereogum is on no mission to prove PFork is harboring weapons of mass confusion. Though we do get pissy when Ryan doesn't respond to our e-mails.
