Music festivals are really conducive for lots of things. Actually seeing music is often not one of them. That's particularly an occupational hazard of festival reporting, though; photo pits are hot messes of sweat and elbows, and 15 minutes from... CONTINUE READING MORE ON WHY YOU SHOULD PROBABLY SEE FLEET FOXES LIVE LIKE NOW»
Posted on July 25, 2008 in , (122 comments)
Tags: Fleet Foxes | Pitchfork Music Festival
Weaving through the thousands swarming the A stage to dive into the photo pit for Animal Collective's headlining set at P4K Fest this weekend was trippy; not because AC drew thousands to their set (seen it before), but because it... CONTINUE READING NEW ANIMAL COLLECTIVE - "LION IN A COMA" (LIVE)»
Posted on July 22, 2008 in (21 comments)
Tags: Animal Collective | Pitchfork Music Festival
By Amrit Singh & Brandon Stosuy Aaaaand we're back. Quite a weekend in Chicago, and this is the post to put a Fork in our coverage of this year's party in Union Park. For day last, the threat of... CONTINUE READING PITCHFORK MUSIC FESTIVAL 2008: SUNDAY IN PHOTOS»
Posted on July 21, 2008 in (20 comments)
Tags: Bon Iver | Boris | Cut Copy | Dinosaur Jr | Dirty Projectors | Ghostface Killah | HEALTH | High Places | King Khan | Les Savy Fav | Pitchfork Music Festival | Raekwon | Spiritualized | Spoon | The Dodos | Wu-Tang Clan
By Amrit Singh and Brandon Stosuy There may have been bands with better songs or tighter chops, but the most impressive all-around performer of the weekend was King Khan ... because he never stopped performing. The Canadian/German-based garage rocker... CONTINUE READING PITCHFORK MUSIC FESTIVAL 2008: THE SUPREME GENIUS OF KING KHAN»
Posted on July 21, 2008 in (12 comments)
Tags: King Khan | Max Tundra | Pitchfork Music Festival | SXSW
By Amrit Singh & Brandon Stosuy After a night of "classic" recreations, it was nice to dive into the current state of the indie landscape. Yesterday's lineup was stacked, and we spent the day scissoring back and forth catching... CONTINUE READING PITCHFORK MUSIC FESTIVAL 2008: SATURDAY IN PHOTOS»
Posted on July 20, 2008 in (35 comments)
Tags: Abe Vigoda | Animal Collective | Caribou | Chk Chk Chk | Dizzee Rascal | Fleet Foxes | Fuck Buttons | High Places | Jarvis Cocker | No Age | Panda Bear | Pit Er Pat | Pitchfork Music Festival | Pulp | The Hold Steady | Vampire Weekend
"Cut for cut, track for track ... It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back." Even the most basic statements of fact come from Chuck D as poetry, with the right rhythm, at the perfect pitch. It's... CONTINUE READING PITCHFORK MUSIC FESTIVAL 2008: PUBLIC ENEMY'S IT TAKES A NATION OF MILLIONS... WILL NOT BE OVERSHADOWED, NOT EVEN BY FLAVOR FLAV»
Posted on July 19, 2008 in (15 comments)
Tags: Pitchfork Music Festival | Public Enemy
Sparks Plus was flying the first night of the Pitchfork Music Festival. The promised thunderstorms never materialized, though the clouds remained generally ominous throughout, and we got soaked en route to the grounds. (Well, I got soaked. Amrit wisely... CONTINUE READING PITCHFORK MUSIC FESTIVAL 2008: MISSION OF BURMA AND SEBADOH LOOK BACK»
Posted on July 19, 2008 in (2 comments)
Tags: Mission Of Burma | Pitchfork Music Festival | Sebadoh
When we arrive at a concert fest's gates, we'll usually publish a Sets To See post, separating the wheat from the Jack Johnson. With Pitchfork's annual Music Festival, though, that's a waste. Just see everything. Last year it was Slint... CONTINUE READING PITCHFORK MUSIC FESTIVAL IS THIS WEEKEND AND SHOULD BE PRETTY GREAT»
Posted on July 18, 2008 (14 comments)
Tags: Pitchfork Music Festival
Still tired from our Chicago trip this weekend, and really it's all this 2AM show's fault. Word floated through the Pitchfork Festival on Sunday that a warehouse at Wolcott and Walnut (mnemonic device of the day: "Think 'Wall' ... then... CONTINUE READING DAN DEACON/DEERHUNTER @ A WAREHOUSE IN CHICAGO 7/16/07 (& PITCHFORK FESTIVAL PICS)»
Posted on July 18, 2007 in (20 comments)
Tags: Dan Deacon | Deerhunter | Pitchfork Music Festival
Wouldn't be a series of Pitchfork scores without at least one bearing little-to-no relation to the verbiage that followed, right? Well, day last of this year's P4K party in Union Park was another fine one, bringing two more mind-bending... CONTINUE READING PITCHFORK MUSIC FESTIVAL 2007 [SUNDAY; 7/15] RATING: 6.2»
Posted on July 16, 2007 in (12 comments)
Tags: Dan Deacon | Deerhunter | Girl Talk | Junior Boys | Menomena | of Montreal | Pavement | Pitchfork Music Festival | Stephen Malkmus | The Field
In one of the best interviews we've read in the past three hours, Ignore Magazine asks Baltimore's hottest future shocker a bunch of brilliantly dumb questions. You should read the whole thing here, but ... some highlights:You look like you... CONTINUE READING DAN DEACON TALKS VIDEOGAMES, RICE KRISPIE TREATS, GARNIER FRUCTUS»
Posted on July 16, 2007 in (46 comments)
Tags: Dan Deacon | Pitchfork Music Festival
No classic albums played in their entirety, but any fest day during which your mind is blown thrice is indeed a good fest day. As noted, there's a hipster agenda at play at Pitchfork Music Festival (duh), but the... CONTINUE READING PITCHFORK MUSIC FESTIVAL 2007 [SATURDAY; 7/14] RATING: 8.1»
Posted on July 16, 2007 in (25 comments)
Tags: Beach House | Califone | Cat Power | Grizzly Bear | Iron And Wine | Pitchfork Music Festival | The Twilight Sad | Voxtrot | Yoko Ono
Not sure that anybody commanded a bigger crowd than Mastodon on Saturday. This band is huge. (Seriously, it's more than just Pitchfork readers that love them.) In that sense, it's amazing the Atlanta metal outfit is even playing this weekend... CONTINUE READING PITCHFORK MUSIC FESTIVAL 2007: MASTODON»
Posted on July 15, 2007 in (13 comments)
Tags: Mastodon | Pitchfork Music Festival
"I know you have a peaceful event here and all..." Pusha-T said a few tracks into the Clipse's day-stealing set -- and a few minutes later, it was a crowd of thousands hollering back "ka-ka-kat-kat" in joyous gunshot unison. Call... CONTINUE READING PITCHFORK MUSIC FESTIVAL 2007: CLIPSE ARE TRILL»
Posted on July 15, 2007 in (9 comments)
Tags: Clipse | Pitchfork Music Festival
Day two brought the heaviness. Could be the warmer temps, or the hangover, but everything we craved on Saturday -- aggression, adrenaline, pulverizing energy -- came tidily wrapped up in Warp groove-mutants Battles and their alien, conceptual mindfuck maelstrom. For... CONTINUE READING PITCHFORK MUSIC FESTIVAL 2007: BATTLES UNITE AND CONQUER THE CONNECTOR STAGE»
Posted on July 15, 2007 in (12 comments)
Tags: Battles | Pitchfork Music Festival
There's a vague subtext of "Us and Them" at most concert festivals: like, you know more than half the folks you brush elbows with at Bonnaroo have never heard of the Hold Steady, and most definitely will not be dancing... CONTINUE READING PITCHFORK MUSIC FESTIVAL 2007 [FRIDAY; 7/13] RATING: 8.7»
Posted on July 14, 2007 in (19 comments)
Tags: GZA | Pitchfork Music Festival | Slint | Sonic Youth | Spoon | Thurston Moore
