Pitchfork Music Festival
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The Pitchfork Music Festival is a music festival organized by Pitchfork Media that was held on July 29 and 30, 2006 in Union Park, Chicago.
Pitchfork Media announced on January 19, 2007 that the 2007 Pitchfork Music Festival will be held July 13-15 2007, again in Union Park.[1] Tickets, which go on sale March 12, 2007, will be $25 for a one day pass and $35 for a two day pass, or $45 for a three day pass.
"The Pitchfork Music Festival will expand this year to three days from two when it returns to Union Park on the weekend of July 13-15. Cat Power, Clipse, Girl Talk, Iron and Wine and Grizzly Bear will be among the headliners to be announced Friday on the Chicago-based Internet music magazine's Web site. The lineup will also include Of Montreal, Jamie Lidell, Professor Murder and Ken Vandermark’s Powerhouse Sound. Additional bookings will be announced in coming weeks, with more than 40 artists expected to perform. Opening night will be devoted to "legendary" rock, rap and experimental music performers, each doing a "classic album" in its entirety, a festival spokesman says. Tickets go on sale Monday through pitchforkmusicfestival.com: $45 for a three-day pass, $35 for a Saturday-Sunday package, $25 for either Saturday or Sunday, and $15 for Friday. " Sonic Youth will be performing their renowned 1988 album Daydream Nation in its entirety in one such Friday performance.
The independent music fest drew more than 35,000 fans from around the world to the West Side park last summer
In 2005, Pitchfork was asked to curate the successful Intonation Music Festival, but for 2006 Pitchfork and independent concert promoter Mike Reed split with Skyline Chicago, who organized the first festival. Intonation has continued without Pitchfork.
The Main Stage continued the formula of popular indie rock acts. A stage curated by Chicago-based PR firm Biz3 featured "a diverse range of hip-hop, experimental, electronic, jazz, and dance acts", according to Pitchfork.
Tickets were $30 for a two-day pass or $20 for either day.
The initial line-up for 2007's Festival was announced on Friday March 9th, 2007.
On March 16, 2007, Pitchfork held a Pitchfork Music Festival SXSW Party.
[edit] Lineups
| Year | Performers | |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 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, 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., Cansei de Ser Sexy, Bonde do Role, Jeff Parker and the Nels Cline Quartet | |
| 2007 | Sonic Youth (performing Daydream Nation), Girl Talk, Powerhouse Sound, Cat Power, Clipse, Grizzly Bear, Professor Murder, Jamie Lidell, Of Montreal, Iron and Wine, The New Pornographers, De La Soul, The Ponys, Battles, Stephen Malkmus |
