Pitchfork was created in February 1996 by Ryan Schreiber, a high school graduate living in his parents' home in
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Pitchfork's unusual, passionate and stylized reviews differentiated it from the more scholarly and formal style of print magazines such as Rolling Stone. The critic Steven Hyden said it offered an alternative to music m… See more

Unlike other music publications, which typically assign scores out of five or ten, Pitchfork uses a decimal scale of 0.0 to 10.0. The system has drawn mockery as arbitrary and overprecise. DiCrescenzo described i… See more