2007 Pitchfork Music Festival

[M Two One]

I'm going to this. Takes place in Chicago every year and they always have some rather unknown (to most people) artists/bands on hand. Nice to see that the Sea & Cake are back together and have put out a new album as well. Really looking forward to Battles and Slint. Takes place at Chicago's Union Park July 13-15.

Official website

Friday, July 13:
Sonic Youth perform Daydream Nation
GZA/Genius performs Liquid Swords
Slint perform Spiderland

Saturday, July 14:
Yoko Ono
Cat Power and Dirty Delta Blues (w/ members of Dirty Three, the Delta 72, and Blues Explosion)
Clipse
Mastodon
Iron and Wine
Battles
Grizzly Bear
Voxtrot
Califone
The Twilight Sad
Girl Talk
Dan Deacon
Oxford Collapse
Professor Murder
Fujiya & Miyagi
Beach House
William Parker Quartet
Ken Vandermark's Powerhouse Sound

Sunday, July 15:
De La Soul
The New Pornographers
Of Montreal
Stephen Malkmus
Jamie Lidell
The Sea and Cake
Junior Boys
Menomena
The Ponys
Deerhunter
Klaxons
The Field
Cadence Weapon
The Cool Kids
Craig Taborn's Junk Magic
Nomo
Brightblack Morning Light
Fred Lonberg-Holm's Lightbox Orchestra

 

[Sasha]

I'd love to go to this. Sonic Youth and Girl Talk would be my main highlights.

 

[M Two One]

I live in the area so thankfully I have easy access. Also thankful that it isn't taking place while I'm in France. I figured you'd be big on seeing Mastodon?

 

[phunDamentalz]

<div class="quote_poster">M Two One Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I live in the area so thankfully I have easy access. Also thankful that it isn't taking place while I'm in France. I figured you'd be big on seeing Mastodon?</div>

I saw Mastodon last week here in New York. Played with a good punk band called Against Me that my ladyfriend wanted to see. Mastodon were okay I guess. The pit was pretty slammin'! Not quite Slayer level, but close.

 

[Sasha]

<div class="quote_poster">M Two One Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I live in the area so thankfully I have easy access. Also thankful that it isn't taking place while I'm in France. I figured you'd be big on seeing Mastodon?</div>
Yeah, them too. Though I did see them on Saturday. Pretty good show.

The one's I'd be really excited about are:

Sonic Youth
GZA
Cat Power
Clipse
Mastadon
Iron & Wine
Battles
Girl Talk
De La Soul
Junior Boys
Deerhunter
The Cool Kids

SOMEONE BUY ME A PLANE TICKET!

 

[M Two One]

<div class="quote_poster">phunDamentalz Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I saw Mastodon last week here in New York. Played with a good punk band called Against Me that my ladyfriend wanted to see. Mastodon were okay I guess. The pit was pretty slammin'! Not quite Slayer level, but close.</div>

That's cool, man, last time I seen Slayer was a decade ago. Soooo long ago.

<div class="quote_poster">Sasha Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Yeah, them too. Though I did see them on Saturday. Pretty good show.

The one's I'd be really excited about are:

Sonic Youth
GZA
Cat Power
Clipse
Mastadon
Iron & Wine
Battles
Girl Talk
De La Soul
Junior Boys
Deerhunter
The Cool Kids

SOMEONE BUY ME A PLANE TICKET!</div>

Why don't you try to get Pitchfork to fly you over to Chicago for the event? It is a long shot, but you never know, yeah? Go to the website and head to the News section. Go to the post from May 7.

It reads as:

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Be a Part of the P4k Festival Behind the Scenes
Together with our friends at FUZE, we're calling all fans for a chance to see the summer's most cutting-edge festival up close and personal—and be a part of it behind the scenes!

We'll pick the best review, photo and poster—and we'll fly each winner and their guest to Chicago, put them up in a hotel for the weekend, and give them $500 cash and two VIP passes to the festival.

But that's not all. The writer of the winning review will get to review this year's festival—and their article will be excerpted on Pitchforkmusicfestival.com. The winning photographer will join Pitchfork's official photo crew for the weekend. And the winning poster artist will see a limited edition of their work printed up and for sale on the festival grounds!</div>

 

[rafy]

Slint has me creaming my pants. Seriously, one of the best bands of all time imo.