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Pitchfork (formerly Pitchfork Media) is an American online music magazine founded in 1996 by Ryan Schreiber in Minneapolis. It originally covered alternative and independent music, and expanded to cover genres including pop, hip-hop, jazz and metal. Pitchfork is one of the most influential music publications to have emerged in the internet age.
The American online music publication Pitchfork has awarded a perfect score of 10 to more than 50 albums. Most of the scores were given in retrospective reviews of classic albums or reissues . [ 1 ] Artists who have received perfect scores on release include Radiohead , Fiona Apple , Kanye West , Bonnie "Prince" Billy , And You Will Know Us by ...
The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present is a book compiling the greatest songs from 1977 to 2006, published in 2008 by Pitchfork Media. The book focuses on specific genres including indie rock , hip-hop , electronic , pop , metal , and experimental underground.
According to the New York Times, Pitchfork Media planned a limited-edition quarterly publication of about 10,000 copies of each issue, perfect bound, and printed on glossy, high-quality 8-by-10¼ paper. [5] It was expected that about two-thirds of the content would be original, with the remaining one-third recycled from the Pitchfork website. [5]
The 2006 Pitchfork Music Festival was the first festival organized and run entirely by Pitchfork Media. This was also the only year that the Pitchfork and Intonation Music Festivals were held in the same year. The 2006 Pitchfork festival drew more than 35,000 visitors to listen to 41 bands on July 29 and 30. [33]
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Interpol's first full-length album Turn On the Bright Lights (2002) was critically acclaimed, making it to No. 10 on NME 's list of the top albums of the year [7] and No. 1 on Pitchfork Media's list of the top 50 albums of the year. [8] Subsequent records Antics (2004) and Our Love to Admire (2007) brought greater critical and commercial success.
The Dissolve was a film review, news, and commentary website which was operated by Pitchfork and based in Chicago, Illinois. The site was focused on reviews, commentary, interviews, and news about contemporary and classic films. [1] Its editor was Scott Tobias, the former editor in chief of The A.V. Club. [1]