Pitchfork to launch print magazine, “The Pitchfork Review”

First they unveiled plans for a new mobile and tablet app, now online music stalwarts Pitchfork are set to venture into print media.

Yes, the website will launch a new magazine called The Pitchfork Review. It’ll be a “a perfect-bound quarterly music publication that combines new long-form feature stories, photography, illustrations and other ephemera”, costing $19.96 (or $44.99 for a year subscription) and launching on 14 December.

Issue 1 will include: Simon Reynolds on “the subtle beauty of competing music weeklies in the early 1980s”, Peter Relic on his new book about the “history of Delicious Vinyl and the birth of LA hip-hop”, plus unseen photos by Nabil, cartoons and more.

“There’s a lot of potential to rethink what people want out of a music magazine,” founder and CEO Ryan Schreiber said of the news. “The tide has really shifted since we started Pitchfork in the mid-’90s. Then, there was no music criticism online; now, there’s very little in print. There’s all kinds of talk about how physical media is dying, but the popularity of vinyl is rising, and there has been a rise in literary and culture publications. It’s not dead, it just needs substance.”

Here’s what the publication will look like below: