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]
There’s a new LCD Soundsystem album due in 2010, and James Murphy has been speculating over the band’s future in an interview with NME. He claims that the tour to promote the record “should probably be the last one,” but didn’t offer Read more…
Need a little pick me up for Monday morning? Check out this amazing LCD Soundsystem cover of No Love Lost (Joy Division cover). This original track appeared on Joy Divisions Substance 1977-1980 [1988]; a singles compilation released by Factory Records.
Buy Substance 1977-1980
Al Keegan and Matador of Dublin based record label, Aciitone Digital, were asked to compile a ten min mash up mix for BBC Radio Ulster last year when they were launching their new label. This is very cool – believe it or not you Vanilla Ice’s Ice Ice Baby sounds so pretty cool against LCD Soundsytem’s Disco Infiltrator. It was made using Ableton. Listen to it here.
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My Top 10 Picks for 2007 :
- LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver
- Radiohead – In Rainbows
- Yeasayer – All Our Cymbals
- The National – Boxer
- Spoon – Ga, Ga…
- Fujiya & Miyagi – Transparent Things
- Wilco – Sky Blue Sky
- Black Lips – Good Bad Not Evil
- Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings – 100 Days, 100 Nights
- Animal Collective – Strawberry Jam
