Pitchfork Music Festival Reveals Initial 2011 Lineup

While most of us are currently focused on SXSW, festival lineups continue to be unveiled throughout early March. The Roots Picnic, Glastonbury and Solid Sound Festival all announced their billings this week, and now you can add Pitchfork Music Festival to that list. For the seventh consecutive year, the fest will descend upon Chicago’s Union Park July 15-17. This year, Pitchfork has tapped Animal Collective, Fleet Foxes, The Dismemberment Plan and TV on the Radio as part of the initial lineup.

Pitchfork Music Festival has initially slated the following artists for this year’s lineup:

Friday, July 15:
-Animal Collective
-James Blake
-Das Racist
-Curren$y

Saturday, July 16:
-Fleet Foxes
-The Dismemberment Plan
-Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti
-Woods
-Sun Airway
-Kylesa

Sunday, July 17:
-TV on the Radio
-Cut Copy
-Deerhunter
-Destroyer
-OFWGKTA
-Yuck

Tickets for Pitchfork will go on sale today, March 4, at 1 p.m. ET. As always, this is one of the more affordable festivals, with single-day tickets costing $45 and three-day passes for $110. Tickets can be purchased at PitchforkMusicFestival.com.

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