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The Pitchfork Music Festival is an annual summer music festival organized by Pitchfork Media held in Union Park, Chicago.
[edit] History
The fest drew more than 35,000 visitors July 29 and 30, 2006. The two main stages featured a variety of popular indie bands, while the tent featured "a diverse range of hip-hop, experimental, electronic, jazz, and dance acts", according to Pitchfork.
The 2007 Pitchfork Music Festival was held on July 13-15, 2007, again in Union Park. The festival was sold out[1] with 48.000 visitors[2]
Sonic Youth performed the classic Daydream Nation. Slint and GZA joined Sonic Youth on opening night, performing their classics Spiderland and Liquid Swords, respectively. These three sets were part of a collaboration with British promoters All Tomorrow's Parties, and formed part of their Don't Look Back series.
Among the headliners for the 2007 festival was Yoko Ono performing a full set that mixed music and performance art. She sang "Mulberries", a song about her time in the countryside after the Japanese collapse in World War II for only the third time in her life, with Thurston Moore; Ono had previously performed the song once with John Lennon and once with Sean Lennon.
The 2008 Pitchfork Music Festival will be held July 18-20, 2008. All Tomorrow's Parties will again collaborate with Pitchfork on a Don't Look Back stage, which will include Public Enemy performing It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. Three-day passes for the event sold out in May.[3]
[edit] Lineups
| Year |
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| 2006 |
Saturday - Silver Jews, The Walkmen, The Futureheads, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Art Brut, Destroyer, The Mountain Goats, Band of Horses, Man Man, Chin Up Chin Up, Hot Machines, A-Trak, Matthew Dear, Matmos, Spank Rock, Ghislain Poirier, Tyondai Braxton, Chicago Underground Duo, Flosstradamus, 8 Bold Souls
Sunday - Os Mutantes, Spoon, Yo La Tengo, Devendra Banhart, Mission of Burma, Aesop Rock, Mr. Lif, Liars, The National, Jens Lekman, Tapes 'n Tapes, Danielson Famile, Diplo, Dominik Eulberg, Glenn Kotche, Ada, Tarantula A.D. aka Priestbird, Cansei de Ser Sexy, Bonde do Role, Jeff Parker/Nels Cline Quartet
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| 2007 |
Friday - Sonic Youth (performing Daydream Nation), GZA (performing Liquid Swords), Slint (performing Spiderland)
Saturday -
Mainstages- Yoko Ono, Cat Power and Dirty Delta Blues Band (w/ members of Dirty Three, the Delta 72, and Blues Explosion), Clipse, Mastodon, Iron & Wine, Battles, Grizzly Bear, Voxtrot, Califone, The Twilight Sad
Tent- Girl Talk, Dan Deacon, Oxford Collapse, Professor Murder, Fujiya & Miyagi, Beach House, William Parker Quartet, Ken Vandermark's Powerhouse Sound
Sunday-
Mainstages- De La Soul, The New Pornographers, of Montreal, Stephen Malkmus, Jamie Lidell, The Sea and Cake, Junior Boys, Menomena, The Ponys, Deerhunter
Tent- Klaxons, The Field, Cadence Weapon, The Cool Kids, Craig Taborn's Junk Magic, Nomo, Brightblack Morning Light, Fred Lonberg-Holm's Lightbox Orchestra
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| 2008 |
Friday - Public Enemy (performing It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back), Sebadoh (performing Bubble and Scrape), Mission of Burma (performing Vs.)
Saturday: Animal Collective, Jarvis Cocker, The Hold Steady, !!!, Vampire Weekend, Dizzee Rascal, Fleet Foxes, Caribou, Jay Reatard, Titus Andronicus, No Age, Atlas Sound, Extra Golden, Elf Power, The Ruby Suns, Icy Demons, A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Occidental Brothers Dance Band International, Boban i Marko Markovic Orkestar
Sunday: Spoon, Dinosaur Jr., Spiritualized, M. Ward, Ghostface and Raekwon, Les Savy Fav, The Apples in Stereo, Boris, Dirty Projectors, Times New Viking, Cut Copy, Bon Iver, The Dodos, King Khan & His Shrines, El Guincho, Fuck Buttons, HEALTH, High Places, Mahjongg
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