Pitchfork Festival Line Up 2010 (Chicago, IL)
Part of a great line up: Pavement, LCD Soundsystem & Modest Mouse
Pitchfork Festival seems to get better every year. This summer they will be featuring PAVEMENT! Yes…the one and only Pavement will be in our area (kind of). And if you thought that was amazing, check out the rest of this brilliant (and recently released) line up for this summer’s indie rock hoe-down:
Friday, July 16:
Modest Mouse
Saturday, July 17:
LCD Soundsystem
Raekwon
Here We Go Magic
Sunday, July 18:
Pavement
St. Vincent
Lightning Bolt
Cass McCombs
Sleigh Bells
Pitchfork Music Festival is happening at Union Park in Chicago July 16-18, 2010. Tickets go on sale at noon Central time today at TicketWeb. Single-day passes cost $40, and three-day passes cost $90. (There are no two-day passes this year.) [from Pitchfork.com]
From the point of view of journalist integrity, I’m not sure I like the idea of a music review web site sponsoring a festival. It gives the appearance of a conflict of interest.
This is a valid concern, and MMR is quite mindful of maintaining the integrity of our commentary. I think you know, Alex, that we only write about the music we love. We think of ourselves as fans, not music critics. In any case, Fred and I bought our tickets (just like I hope that you will), so our integrity is not in jeopardy!
The festival music experience can be a realy good one. I’ve not been to Pitchfork Music Festival before, I love the line-up, and I’m truly quite excited to be going to Chicago to see these bands.
Here’s the lineup as of 03/05/2010:
Friday, July 16:
– Modest Mouse
– Broken Social Scene
– El-P
Saturday, July 17:
– LCD Soundsystem
– Panda Bear
– The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
– Raekwon
– Titus Andronicus
– Bear in Heaven
– Freddie Gibbs
– The Smith Westerns
– Dâm-Funk
Sunday, July 18:
– Pavement
– St. Vincent
– Lightning Bolt
– Girls
– Cass McCombs
– Here We Go Magic
– Sleigh Bells
– Cave
– Allá