Pitchfork Music Festival

[Guest Alan]

Yea, okay fine.....but both years I have gone (when it was Pitchfork alone) there were enough acts that were recognizable to a geezer like me. Admittedly Pitchfork is pitched at an entirely different audience than I am but when I hear others here say they are not impressed I don't feel so far out of it.

 

Heck last year not only did I know who was playing (not all the time of course) I actually owned albums by many of them. This year, not so much. I suspect there will be others coming into play I have heard of, but so far, not so much.

 

LouieB

it's very early on yet. we'll see.

 

well, aren't you fancy.

your tone is not appreciated.

[MrRain422]

As Pitchfork is becoming more of a brand name, I think that they will start to book more bands that they're actively pushing -- more new bands and less bands leaning on a catalogue. Just a guess though.

[Guest Alan]

here is last year's lineup

 

Friday, July 13:

 

Sonic Youth perform Daydream Nation

GZA/Genius performs Liquid Swords

Slint perform Spiderland

 

Saturday, July 14:

 

Yoko Ono

Cat Power and Dirty Delta Blues (w/ members of Dirty Three, the Delta 72, and Blues Explosion)

Clipse

Mastodon

Iron and Wine

Battles

Grizzly Bear

Voxtrot

Califone

The Twilight Sad

Girl Talk

Dan Deacon

Oxford Collapse

Professor Murder

Fujiya & Miyagi

Beach House

William Parker Quartet

Ken Vandermark's Powerhouse Sound

 

Sunday, July 15:

 

De La Soul

The New Pornographers

Of Montreal

Stephen Malkmus

Jamie Lidell

The Sea and Cake

Junior Boys

Menomena

The Ponys

Deerhunter

Klaxons

The Field

Cadence Weapon

The Cool Kids

Craig Taborn's Junk Magic

Nomo

Brightblack Morning Light

Fred Lonberg-Holm's Lightbox Orchestra

 

that doesn't exactly come off as mainstream.

[EL the Famous]

once i got past PE doing 'it takes' in it's entirety...the rest of the list just soudned like charlie brown's teacher talking in my head.

 

seeing PE at their peak back in '91, i'm not too sure how this'll come off for me...it's still pretty cool though.

[rareair]

don't believe the hype

[LouieB]

here is last year's lineup

 

that doesn't exactly come off as mainstream.

No, but alot of these folks are people we talk about all the time.

 

Despite all this I am in.....ordered the cheapo tix today. I figure I can always unload or give away tickets at this price. It did sell out last year so what the hell.

 

Having not seen PE in the early 90s it could be interesting, or it could be lame...hard to tell.

 

LouieB

[sureshot]

Having not seen PE in the early 90s it could be interesting, or it could be lame...hard to tell.

 

LouieB

 

Yea, aging rap acts are hard to gauge. De La Soul I though was decent last year..not mindblowing, but very solid.

 

Now, if P4K could reuinite Pete Rock and CL Smooth to perform Mecca and The Soul Brother in its entirety, then we would be on to something.

[aricandover]

Now, if P4K could reuinite Pete Rock and CL Smooth to perform Mecca and The Soul Brother in its entirety, then we would be on to something.

 

that might actually be worth the $65.

[LouieB]

Yea, aging rap acts are hard to gauge. De La Soul I though was decent last year..not mindblowing, but very solid..

I only caught a bit of them since I was pretty beat after staying for both headliners on Friday and Saturday. PE is one of the few rap acts that would get me to hang around.....

 

LouieB

[EL the Famous]

Now, if P4K could reuinite Pete Rock and CL Smooth to perform Mecca and The Soul Brother in its entirety, then we would be on to something.

 

oh hells yes.

 

to be clear, if their performance at 2004's hip hop honors is any indication...PE still has game. i'm just not 100% sure it's close enough for 1991 game for me to pay the $ to see...but for someone who hasn't, it could be.

[radiokills]

i hope the acts that are added are much more solid.