Idolator: pitchfork music festival

Jarvis Cocker fans who missed his set from ...

Maura Johnston — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:15:00 EDT

Jarvis Cocker fans who missed his set from the Pitchfork Music Festival should check out his cover of Master C & J's Chicago house classic "Face It" as soon as their mouse-clicking fingers will let them. (Unfortunately this site only has that excerpt from the show, and not Jarvis' between-song banter, where he read fun facts about Chicago that he'd gleaned from Wikipedia and pretty much endorsed Barack Obama. The "Jarvis For Obama '08" stickers will be forthcoming as soon as I can get to a Kinko's.) [creamteam.tv / Photo: Getty]

The rest of the Pitchfork Music Festival's ...

Maura Johnston — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:30:00 EDT

The rest of the Pitchfork Music Festival's lineup has been announced, and rounding out the night where bands perform classic albums is... Sebadoh, performing Bubble & Scrape. Kind of a letdown given a) the speculation about what other bands might be playing and b) my personal preference for Bakesale, but what are you gonna do. Also added to the bill: the Hold Steady, High Places, and Elf Power, among others. Click the album cover for the entire lineup.

FRIDAY, JULY 18
The Pitchfork Music Festival and All Tomorrow's Parties present "Don't Look Back" featuring
PUBLIC ENEMY performing It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
**SEBADOH performing Bubble and Scrape
MISSION OF BURMA performing Vs.

SATURDAY, JULY 19
Animal Collective
Jarvis Cocker
**The Hold Steady
!!!
Vampire Weekend
No Age
Atlas Sound
Dizzee Rascal
Extra Golden
Fleet Foxes
**Elf Power
**Caribou
Ruby Suns
Fuck Buttons
Jay Reatard
**Icy Demons
A Hawk and a Hacksaw
**Boban Markovic Orkestar
**Titus Andronicus

SUNDAY, JULY 20
Spoon
Dinosaur Jr
Spiritualized
M. Ward
Ghostface & Raekwon
Les Savy Fav
The Apples In Stereo
Boris
Cut Copy
Dirty Projectors
**Bon Iver
Dodos
**Times New Viking
Occidental Brothers Dance Band International
El Guincho
King Khan
**HEALTH
**High Places
**Mahjongg

Just added to the Pitchfork Music Festival: ...

Maura Johnston — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:15:36 EDT

Just added to the Pitchfork Music Festival: Jarvis Cocker, Dinosaur Jr., Ghostface and Raekwon, the Dirty Projectors, Fuck Buttons, and Mission of Burma performing Vs. in full. Click on Jarvis' head for the full announced lineup so far. [Pitchfork]

Friday, July 18: Pitchfork Music Festival and All Tomorrow's Parties present "Don't Look Back"
Public Enemy performing It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
* Mission of Burma performing Vs. *
+ one more to be announced

Saturday, July 19:
Animal Collective
* Jarvis Cocker *
!!!
Vampire Weekend
Dizzee Rascal
Fleet Foxes
No Age
* Jay Reatard *
* King Khan & His Shrines *
Atlas Sound
* The Ruby Suns *
* A Hawk and a Hacksaw *
* Occidental Brothers Dance Band International *
+ many more!

Sunday, July 20:
* Dinosaur Jr. *
Spiritualized
M. Ward
* Ghostface and Raekwon *
* The Apples in Stereo *
Boris
* Dirty Projectors *
* Cut Copy *
Extra Golden
El Guincho
* Fuck Buttons *
+ many more!

Public Enemy To Play In Pitchfork's Sandbox

Maura Johnston — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:15:00 EDT

I had a pretty good time at last year's Pitchfork Music Festival—it had a solid lineup, cheap water, and gorgeous weather—and the initial announcement for this year's festival, which is taking place July 18-20, is making me excited to head back to Chicago this summer. Vampire Weekend's presence ensures that there will be a ton of heated arguments by the beer stalls; Animal Collective's participation will probably not satiate Jim DeRogatis' wariness over Pitchfork's similarities to Rolling Stone, so we'll be treated to another year of seeing him sitting around the press area with a surly look; and most importantly, Public Enemy is performing It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back in its entirety as part of the festival's annual "Don't Look Back" series. Full list of announced artists after the jump.

• The Pitchfork Music Festival and All Tomorrow's Parties present "Don't Look Back" featuring PUBLIC ENEMY performing "It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back"
• ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
• SPIRITUALIZED
• !!!
• M. WARD
• BORIS
• VAMPIRE WEEKEND
• DIZZEE RASCAL
• NO AGE
• ATLAS SOUND
• FLEET FOXES
• EXTRA GOLDEN
• EL GUINCHO

Teaching The Indie Kids How To Hit On One Another Again

mjohnston — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:09:44 EDT

Thanks to Any Such Name for reminding us that these days, every major event leaves a trail of Craigslist ads in its wake; the Pitchfork Music Festival isn't an exception, and the ads we've found so far have been as communicative as you'd expect indie rockers to be. For example, there's this ad from a woman looking for a man: "I didn't attend the festival I just live in the neighborhood. I wanted to say hello but as always I'm shy." So shy, in fact, that she won't provide any details about herself or the person she's looking for! Perhaps the person who posted this ad is her Mr. Right: "we miss each other on purpose ... you know how dumb that is?" Or maybe he isn't, since he could actually be a she—or maybe even a leftover ice-cream treat that somehow became sentient through the power of Yoko Ono's music. It's phenomena like these that make it hard to not love the Internet, don't you think?

missed connections: search for "pitchfork" [Craigslist]

Pick Of The Fest: Idolator Meets The Pitchfork Music Festival's Masses

mjohnston — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:05:32 EDT

The Pitchfork Music Festival, held in Chicago's exceptionally lovely Union Park, was this weekend's other weekend-long rock marathon—and it was an exceptionally well-run collection of 'Fork-approved artists, sunshine, and opportunities to buy actual records. You can read about Stephen Malkmus and Bob Nastanovich busting out "Trigger Cut" and the heroic reception that Of Montreal garnered in lots of other places, but I had a more pressing question: What do fans of the site look like when they're AFK? I grabbed photographer/former Idolator guestblogger MTS and we ventured into the crowd.