The Pitchfork Music Festival announced the first chunk of its lineup in February, and it featured names like Vampire Weekend, Feist, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and Hot Chip. And just as it always…   Read Story »

Today, my former employers over at Pitchfork announced the initial lineup for this summer's Pitchfork Music Festival, which comes to Chicago's Union Park 7/13-15. Every year, Pitchfork announces all…   Read Story »

Pitchfork Fest's final day was a scorcher. We're still recovering, but our tireless photog Graeme Flegenheimer braved the heat to deliver pics of Ariel Pink, Baths, Cut Copy, Deerhunter, How To Dress…   Read Story »

Pitchfork Fest Friday inspired thoughts about the intimate and situational appeal of much of today's crop of independent artists, and the challenges inherent to translating that allure in sunny…   Read Story »

The Pitchfork Music Festival's franchising: In addition to the usual July event in Chicago, there's now a second Parisian version of the festival taking place in October. Since his moniker's French,…   Read Story »

The lineup for the 2011 edition of the Pitchfork Music Festival's been announced and it features bands Pitchfork likes. So far 16 have been announced. See how many you can guess without peeking.…   Read Story »

The final day of 2010's Pitchfork Festival was just as hot as Saturday, with stages that needed quick shots of energy to pull the audience out of its languor. Girls were pretty but wispy -- though…   Read Story »

You've already prematurely evaluated "Tomboy" b/w "Slow Motion," the first in a series of singles on various labels leading up to Noah Lennox's highly anticipated fourth solo LP. Seven inch rips have…   Read Story »

Amrit and I saw Inception just before the start of this year’s Pitchfork Festival, so you have to read this post with the understanding that the first day may have been a dream, or maybe you are in…   Read Story »

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…   Read Story »