Maybe it's Pitchfork's fault. The notoriously lacerating blog that famously posted a wordless review of Jet's 2006 Shine On album accompanied by a nine-second video of a chimp urinating in its own mouth and then topped that with a review of the Black Kids' 2008 debut that featured a picture of two sad pug dogs and the word "sorry" helped set the stage for the micro album review.

Now, thanks to the just-launched, Twitter-ific review site Musebin, the days of the 500-plus-word, navel-gazing, "serious" album review by opinion-bloated rock critics could be going the way of HD DVDs. How can the Robert Christgaus of the world compete with such pithy 140-character takes on albums like Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy that opine: "Chinese Democracy: What a piece of f---ing sh--," as well as "It took Michelangelo 4 years to paint the Sistine Chapel. It takes Axl 15 to sh-- on a CD, and gravity was on his side." Read more...

The kids at hipster site Pitchfork announced the starter lineup for their annual music festival, to take place July 18-20 in Chicago's Union Park. In keeping with their "Don't Look Back" series, the festival will kick off on the first night with Public Enemy performing their seminal hit, It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back. Other acts over the three days include LA noise duo, No Age, Deerhunter side-project Atlas Sound, New York's Animal Collective, and the most awesome psych-metal band around, Boris.

Tickets for the festival (one of our favorites) go on sale Wednesday, March 12. The lineup - with more artists to be announced in coming days, weeks, months:

Friday 18 July

Pitchfork and All Tomorrow's Parties Present "Don't Look Back"

Public Enemy performing It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back

Saturday 19 July

Animal Collective
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Vampire Weekend
Dizzee Rascal
No Age
Atlas Sound
Fleet Foxes
and more

Sunday 20 July

Spiritualized
M. Ward
Boris
Extra Golden
El Guincho

and more