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Riot Fest announces its first wave of acts for 2018

by Leor Galil May 30, 2018August 18, 2021

Riot Fest got Blink-182! Cypress Hill! Blondie! The Jesus Lizard! Liz Phair! Atmosphere! Beck! Cat Power! And . . . the 82-year-old Jerry Lee Lewis?

Music

In praise of Pitchfork’s Blue Stage

by Kevin Warwick July 12, 2017August 18, 2021

Pitchfork’s Blue Stage lets you see the likes of Arca, Dawn Richard, Mitski, Survive, and Pinegrove before they’re too big to get close to.

Blogs

Early Warnings Roundup

by Kevin Warwick March 3, 2011August 19, 2021

This week’s Early Warnings include Aesop Rock, Bomba Estereo, Def Leppard, Dengue Fever, Man Man, Matt & Kim, Small Brown Bike, Sondre Lerche, and the Pitchfork Music Festival.

Blogs

Kidz in the Hall Get Grizzled, Matt & Kim Get Ninja-fied

by Miles Raymer November 18, 2009August 19, 2021

What’s new in hipster rap?

Music

The Reader’s Guide to the 2009 Pitchfork Music Festival

by Miles Raymer, Peter Margasak, Jessica Hopper, Monica Kendrick, Bill Meyer, Kevin Warwick and Ann Sterzinger July 16, 2009August 19, 2021

What you need to know before you go

Music

The Reader’s Guide to the 2009 Pitchfork Music Festival: Friday

by Peter Margasak and Monica Kendrick July 16, 2009August 19, 2021

Intro | Saturday | Sunday friday17 5 PM Tortoise I never saw Tortoise as radical reinventors of rock. To me it just looked like they had good taste, deep curiosity, and remarkable focus; what other people called “postrock” was just the band following their interests where they led, using whatever atypical instrumentation it took to […]

Music

The Reader’s Guide to the 2009 Pitchfork Music Festival: Saturday

by Miles Raymer, Monica Kendrick, Kevin Warwick, Jessica Hopper, Bill Meyer, Peter Margasak and Ann Sterzinger July 16, 2009August 19, 2021

Intro | Friday | Sunday saturday18 1 PM Disappears Initially a recording project for Brian Case (formerly of the 90 Day Men and currently with the on-hiatus Ponys) and Graeme Gibson (formerly of Boas and currently with the Fruit Bats), now a tightly wound live quartet, Disappears are one of the Chicago scene’s most promising […]

Music

The Reader’s Guide to the 2009 Pitchfork Music Festival: Sunday

by Miles Raymer, Jessica Hopper, Peter Margasak, Bill Meyer and Ann Sterzinger July 16, 2009August 19, 2021

Intro | Friday | Saturday sunday19 1 PM Michael Columbia Like many of the mostly local bands in the incestuous circle surrounding the Obey Your Brain label, Chicago trio Michael Columbia plays an avant-garde brand of jazz-inflected funk that might come off as pretentious if it weren’t buoyed by such a sense of fun. On […]