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Article: Listen to this: in little more than a decade, Pitchfork has grown from a labor of love into the Web's foremost musical tastemaker.(Product/service evaluation)
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- Columbia Journalism Review
- Article date:
- May 1, 2006
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Recently, the legendary Village Voice rock critic Robert Christgau told me one of his favorite facts about the music industry today: there are more hours of music recorded in a single year than there are hours in a year; it is literally impossible for one person to listen to everything. Even the most obsessive music zealots couldn't come close, but it's funny to picture them trying--a nation of rock-nerd zombies joylessly trolling the MP3 blogs, night after waking night. Nick Hornby meets The Twilight Zone.
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), ...
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Article: Pitchfork.tv aims to be MTV of new generation
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... ... any taste maker -- which Pitchfork surely is. The site, more ... There's no question that Pitchfork.tv owes some of its inspiration ... based rock band, playing on a New York rooftop -- a concept that ... the video site's launch, Pitchfork pulled in a heavyweight ...
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