How Do You Get People to Write About Music?

2min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

The first writer who started writing for pitchfork was my best friend at the time. The reviews were so short, like, it was effortless, and it was clearly all kids yet. i don't think we had a writer who was older than 24 at that point. And in fact, a lot of people in the first and second sort of group of writers who kind of came on board ended up becoming sort of like pitchfork lifer.

While working at his local record store at age 20, Ryan Schreiber dreamt that his scrappy music review webpage might one day grow into an influential music publication. Working out of his parents’ house, he wrote about indie music because he loved it, and recruited like-minded friends to do the same. In 2000, a rhapsodic review of Radiohead’s “Kid A” got huge attention online, and soon Ryan’s site began to attract tens of thousands of users—building a reputation for pointed reviews that could make or break careers. In 2015, Pitchfork joined The New Yorker and Vogue when it was acquired by Condé Nast, one of the most prestigious magazine publishers in the world.

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.