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Pitchfork Fest '08 Day Three: Lights & Music

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(Tim Harrington plays music, really. Courtesy of Jeremy Farmer)

The buzz and short attention spans I spoke of in Day One, and the newfound diversity heralded in Day Two, these things imploded upon each other the final hours of Sunday, with one holy rockness middle ground rising up from the rubble.  

The moment can be pinpointed actually, if you were to witness Les Savy Fav’s punk-maestro, Tim Harrington, careen his bald dome into a city garbage can, demanding the crowd hoist him, and his new stage, into the air so he could finish his song.

Post-set comment from a fan:

Dude wanted up, like Oscar the Grouch, towards the sky! Easily the most zenith of any rock and roll moment I have ever witnessed.

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Pitchfork Fest '08 Day Two: Evolution of Hip

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(Getting sick, sick, sick with Chk, Chk, Chk)

As the natural progression of emergently original things go, Pfork’s festival speaks no more to one niche market, which is something best analogized by !!!’s Nic Offer late afternoon Saturday, before thrusting his pelvis to a series of genre-blurring grunts:

We’re the lowest rated band on Pitchfork, with the highest set time.  It goes to show you the kids know something the critics don’t.

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Pitchfork Fest '08 Day One: Looking Back On 'Don't Look Back'

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(FLAVA FAV!)

It took a field of hipsters to hold back reality t.v.’s favorite half of Public Enemy last night in Chicago’s Union Park, as Chuck D shot the gun on Pitchfork’s third effort in the festival realm with the opening diatribes of hip-hop’s seminal album, It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back, sans his counterpart. 

Chuck D upon Flavor’s belated entrance: “Where the fuck were you on “Bring The Noise?”

Flavor Fav: “I don’t know Chuck, I was with the family.”

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