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Pitchfork Media, usually known simply as '''Pitchfork''', is a U.S. -based daily Internet publication devoted to Music Criticism and commentary, music news, and artist interviews. Its primary focus lies with Independent Music , particularly Indie Rock bands, Electronic Music artists, Singer-songwriters , and Hip-hop artists, although it also occasionally covers mainstream pop music when the editors and writers consider it innovative or relevant to the publication's readership. Pitchfork is reputed to have significant influence in the independent music world. HISTORY Pitchfork was created in Minneapolis in late 1995 by life-long music obsessive Ryan Schreiber , then just out of high school. Influenced by local Fanzines and college radio station KUOM - and undeterred by his previous lack of writing or publishing experience - he aimed to provide the then-fledgling Internet with a regularly updated resource for Underground Music . At first bearing the name Turntable, the site was originally updated just once a month with interviews and reviews. In the summer of 1996 , the name was changed to Pitchfork, and the site began publishing daily. In early 1999 , Schreiber uprooted Pitchfork from its Minneapolis base and relocated to Chicago . By then, the site had expanded to four reviews daily, as well as sporadic interviews, features, and columns. It had also begun garnering a following for both its extensive coverage of underground music and its controversial writers. Pitchfork has since amassed an audience of more than 150,000 readers per day, and more than 1.3 million unique visitors per month, making it the most popular independent-focused music publication online. WIDE REACH AND CRITICISM Pitchfork's opinions have gained some cultural currency in recent years; some in the mainstream media view the site as a barometer of the indie music scene. Some publications have cited Pitchfork in having played a part in breaking The Arcade Fire , Sufjan Stevens , Clap Your Hands Say Yeah , Interpol , The Go! Team , The Dismemberment Plan , Broken Social Scene , and Wolf Parade . Each of these bands received extensive praise from many other sources, however, and the site's true impact on these and other bands remains a source of frequent debate. Pitchfork has faced criticism for what some readers see as pretentious or impenetrable prose. PITCHFORK MUSIC FESTIVALS In 2005, Pitchfork was chosen to curate the Intonation Music Festival, attracting some 15,000 attendees to , Spoon , Silver Jews , Yo La Tengo , The Futureheads , Devendra Banhart , Mission Of Burma , Ted Leo , Diplo , Aesop Rock , Art Brut , The Mountain Goats , Matmos , The National , Destroyer , Jens Lekman , Band Of Horses , Tapes 'n Tapes , Man Man , Chin Up Chin Up , acclaimed German DJs Ada and Dominik Eulberg , Ghislain Poirier , and others. The Intonation Music Festival will be curated this year by Vice Records. 10.0 RATINGS Albums that received a 10.0 rating upon initial release:
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