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''Pitchfork Media'', commonly referred to as ''Pitchfork'', is a Chicago-based online music magazine devoted to music journalism, news, album reviews, and feature stories. Founded in 1995 by Ryan Schreiber, who was working in a record store at the time, the magazine originally developed a reputation for its extensive focus on independent music, but it has since expanded with a variety of coverage on both indie and popular music artists. The site generally concentrates on new music, but ''Pitchfork'' journalists have also reviewed reissued albums and box sets. The site has also published "best-of" lists – such as the best albums of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, and the best songs of the 1960s – as well as annual features detailing the best albums and tracks of each year since 1999. ==History== In late 1995, Ryan Schreiber, then just out of high school, created ''Pitchfork'' in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Influenced by local fanzines and college radio station KUOM, Schreiber, who had no previous writing experience, aimed to provide the Internet with a regularly updated resource for independent music. At first bearing the name Turntable, the site was originally updated monthly with interviews and reviews. In May 1996, the site began publishing daily, and was renamed "Pitchfork", a reference to Tony Montana's tattoo in the 1983 film ''Scarface''. In early 1999, Schreiber uprooted ''Pitchfork'' from its Minneapolis base and relocated to Chicago, Illinois. By then, the site had expanded to four full-length album 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 writing style, which was often unhindered by the conventions of print journalism. In October of that year, the site added a daily music news section. Pitchfork has launched a variety of subsidiary websites. ''Pitchfork'' launched Pitchfork.tv, a website displaying videos related to many independent music acts, in April 2008. It features bands that are typically found on pitchforkmedia.com. In July 2010, ''Pitchfork'' announced (Altered Zones ), a blog aggregator devoted to underground and do-it-yourself music. Altered Zones was closed on November 30, 2011. On December 26, 2012, ''Pitchfork'' launched (Nothing Major ), a website that covered visual arts such as fine art and photography. Nothing Major closed in October 2013. On October 13, 2015, Condé Nast announced that it had acquired Pitchfork Media. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pitchfork Media」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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