Book Critic: "The Pitchfork 500"

nik.mercer — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:38:58 -0700

Love it or hate it, Pitchfork Media is the gold standard for music journalism on the Web. Sure, P4K may have one of the most bizarre rating systems ever, it may offend on occasion, and it may come off with an air of pretention, but in the end, you know you can't live without it. As the New York Times put it, Pitchfork Media is "one of the more important indie music tastemakers in any medium." This is most definitely true.