Columbia Journalism Review Takes On Pitchfork. Columbia Journalism Review?
By DJ M on May 25th, 2006
In Miscellaneous Music
CJR "For those who don’t have forty hours a week to devote to panning for gold in the vast muddy river of new releases, there’s Pitchfork (www.pitchforkmedia.com), the eleven-year-old Web magazine that does the sifting for you. The main thing that distinguishes Pitchfork from the Rolling Stones and Spins of the world is its focus: album reviews — five new ones every day — that are aimed at helping the overwhelmed listener. 'In some other magazines, what this band or that band did on the road gets more words than ‘Is the record good?’ and ‘Should you buy it?’' says Ryan Schreiber, Pitchfork’s thirty-year-old founder and editor in chief. Not so at Pitchfork, where the other features on the site — breaking news about the independent music scene, interviews with musicians, and features — are merely extras."