And the acts keep pitching in to this year's Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago's Union Park July 17-19. More bands announced today: Saturday will see performances by Yeasayer, Plants and Animals, and Disappears; and on Sunday, the festival will be adding Blitzen Trapper, Mew, Japandroids, and Women.
To recap the 2009 line-up so far ...
Friday: Built to Spill, The Jesus Lizard, Yo La Tengo, Tortoise
Saturday: The National, Yeasayer, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, F***ed Up, Plants and Animals, Matt and Kim, Wavves, Charles Hamilton, The Duchess and The Duke, Disappears
Sunday: The Flaming Lips, Grizzly Bear, M83, The Walkmen, Pharoahe Monch, Blitzen Trapper, Black Lips, The Very Best, Mew, Vivian Girls, Japandroids, Women.
And yet...no mention of Record Store Day. Isn't that important enough to have something published in TODAY'S paper? Pretty disappointing. If it's the editor's decision -- well, duh.
Ben, look to ...
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ourtown/2009/04/record_store_day_local_happeni.html
and
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ourtown/2009/04/drink_up_music_values_at_bin_3.html
Our Town? Not the Music section? Um, ok... Thanks for posting the links.
Ok, now leak the Lolla lineup please.
More Pitchfork artist...less Lolla....me no likey