Pitchfork Festival Line Up 2010 (Chicago, IL)

| 2010-02-05 | *MMR PICKS, P4Kfest | 5 Comments
Pitchfork Festival LCD Soundsystem Pavement Modest Mouse
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]

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5 Comments
  1. Alex Szczech

    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.

  2. MrBill

    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.

  3. fS

    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

  4. Alex Szczech

    @MrBill
    Mr. Bill, thanks for the thoughtful reply. I want to clarify my comments, I wasn’t criticizing MMR for promoting (as in enthusasticly announcing) the festival — it is a great lineup. Rather I was questiong Pitchfork for sponsoring the festival. My concern is informed by the experience of reading Britian’s New Music Express (NME) back in 2003 when they were hyping certains bands beyond all reasons (they *made* The Libertine/Pete Dohery & Kings of Leon) and then sponsoring music festivals and shows which they (NME) then have a stake in being successful. It rubs me the wrong way. Our household no longer subscribes to NME.

    I have no problems at all with MMR. Keep up the good work.

  5. MrBill

    Thanks, Alex. I appreciate your clarification, and I agree with your concerns.

    (Now you know about my defensive nature.)