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Article: Pitchfork holds power in indie scene.
- Article from:
- The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
- Article date:
- August 1, 2006
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Byline: Stephen Kiehl
Aug. 1--Chicago -- Unlike the bands whose careers he has championed, Ryan Schreiber walked the grounds of Union Park this past weekend unnoticed. No one asked for his autograph, ran after him or passed him a CD they had recorded in a basement. But for the all-access pass around his neck, Schreiber could have been any of the nearly 40,000 people who attended the Pitchfork Music Festival -- black T-shirt, beard, aviator sunglasses. Yet none of them would have been there -- the bands or their fans -- if not for Schreiber and his little Web site that could. Ten years ago, recently out of high school and working a string of jobs he hated, ...
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