the chicago tribune on music's new tastemakers. they're a little late on covering mp3 blogs, but the article's got some pretty interesting stuff about the pitchfork effect:

Josh Rosenfeld, co-owner of Seattle-based Barsuk Records, says one Texas record store initially refused to stock one of his releases, Travis Morrison's 2004 release "Travistan," because it received a 0.0 review from Pitchfork. ...

"A Rolling Stone review doesn't necessarily sell a single record for us," he says. "But with Pitchfork, you get a review, and you can see the impact on sales."