The Intimation Music Festival

2min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

In two thousand five there was a festival clled the intonation music festival. You guys were hie to curate it, which was a chance for you to kind of get your feet and your fingers into that business. We ended up selling that first year, i think, something like 12000 tickets for two days or something. And so unfortunately, essentially, the festival director, whose name is mike read, was really,. just incrediblea promoter, producer.

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.