How Did You Come Up With the Idea of Starting Your Own Zen Like Thing?

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In 19 94, one of these people introduced me to the internet. So i basically started learning that software. The first thing that i did was try to talk to artists. I wu thik, you can't have a zene with t interviews. Who'd you get? That was actually the big draw for me at first. My first interview was with low, believe it or not, but they, at that time were just, you know, a local band starting out and deluth, min Minnesota.

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.

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