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Paste's Guide to Pitchfork Music Festival 2009

By Natasha Richardson on 12:00 PM on July 17, 2009

The Pitchfork Festival, held in Chicago’s Union Park, opens with...  read more

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Pitchfork Music Festival Adds Beirut, DOOM, Frightened Rabbit, Ponytail, More to Lineup

image not available By Rachel Dovey on 11:43 AM on May 4, 2009

Pitchfork Music Festival has fortified its argument for Summer fest dominance. The online music source has added Beirut, DOOM, Frightened Rabbit, Ponytail, The Mae Shi, Lindstrom, Dianogah and DJ/Rupture to its original lineup, which includes Built to Spill, The Jesus Lizard, Yo La Tengo and many more....  read more

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Pitchfork Music Festival announces headliners

image not available By Rachel Dovey on 2:24 PM on March 9, 2009

This year will mark the fourth that Pitchfork has gathered fans into Chicago's Union Park for a weekend of top-notch indie bands. Headliners have been released for the July 17-19 line-up, and it's looking pretty solid so far....  read more

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Pitchfork announces 2009 festival dates

image not available By Muriel Vega on 10:09 AM on March 3, 2009

With announced line-ups for Bonnaroo and Sasquatch, Pitchfork Music Festival better be ready to ante up. The three-day music festival announced July 17-19 as its 2009 dates and for the fourth year in a row, Chicago's Union Park will be once again the playground for the festival....  read more

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Pitchfork Fest '08 Day Three: Lights & Music

image not available By Gavin Paul Giovagnoli on 11:19 PM on July 21, 2008

(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,...  read more

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Pitchfork Fest '08 Day Two: Evolution of Hip

image not available By Gavin Paul Giovagnoli on 4:18 PM on July 20, 2008

(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....  read more

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

image not available By Gavin Paul Giovagnoli on 2:19 PM on July 19, 2008

(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.”...  read more

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