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Our associates at Pitchfork have been by some darkish days currently. In January, Conde Nast, Pitchfork’s homeowners, moved the location underneath the banner of GQ, one other of its properties, and a lot of the employees was laid off. Pitchfork continues to exist, and it’s nonetheless publishing daily, although not as a lot because it was a number of months in the past. When all of the layoffs occurred, the bosses at Conde had been fast to guarantee the world that the annual Pitchfork Music Pageant would nonetheless occur, and so it’ll. It goes down 7/19-21 at Chicago’s Union Park, the identical place the place the fest has been occurring since 2005. Immediately, we get the lineup.
This lineup? It’s a bizarre one. A lot of the lineup is devoted to acts who make excellent sense for Pitchfork, however a few of it’s actually puzzling. Grammy favorites Black Pumas, a band who’ve mainly nothing to do with the form of music that Pitchfork has championed through the years, will headline the primary evening. Alanis Morissette, a vastly influential determine who nonetheless appears in some way outdoors the pageant’s wheelhouse, will headline the final. Jamie xx, the opposite headliner, is extra the kind of act that you just anticipate from this fest, and he’s performed it earlier than. (His inclusion makes me marvel if we’re getting that second solo album someday quickly.)
The weirdness of the headliners apart, Pitchfork stays a tastefully booked boutique pageant, and there’s a lot of nice stuff on this yr’s invoice. The lineup additionally options Carly Rae Jepsen, Jai Paul, Brittany Howard, 100 gecs, Jessie Ware, MUNA, De La Soul, Grandmaster Flash, Jeff Rosenstock, Les Savy Fav, Unwound, Bratmobile, Wednesday, Model Pussy, Yaeji, Crumb, Sudan Archives, Amen Dunes, Jessica Pratt, Hotline TNT, billy woods and Kenny Segal, Water From Your Eyes, feeble little horse, Tkay Maidza, Sweeping Guarantees, Kara Jackson, L’Rain, Hailu Mergia, Mannequin/Actriz, Nala Sinephro, Doss, ML Buch, Rosali, Maxo, Joanna Sternberg, Indignant Blackmen, Lifeguard, Black Duck, and Akenya. You could find all of the related data right here, and you may see the total breakdown beneath.
Friday 7/19:
Black Pumas
Jai Paul
100 gecs
Jeff Rosenstock
Yaeji
Sudan Archives
Amen Dunes
billy woods & Kenny Segal
Tkay Maidza
Doss
ML Buch
Rosali
Indignant Blackmen
Black Duck
Saturday 7/20:
Jamie xx
Carly Rae Jepsen
Jessie Ware
De La Soul
UNWOUND
Bratmobile
Wednesday
Water From Your Eyes
Sweeping Guarantees
feeble little horse
Hotline TNT
Kara Jackson
L’Rain
Lifeguard
Suday 7/21:
Alanis Morissette
Brittany Howard
MUNA
Grandmaster Flash
Les Savy Fav
Crumb
Jessica Pratt
Model Pussy
Hailu Mergia
Mannequin/Actriz
Nala Sinephro
Maxo
Joanna Sternberg
Akenya
In the meantime, proper down the road from Pitchfork, one other music pageant is going on on the identical weekend. The Rumble, the annual Chicago hardcore fest, goes down within the Cobra Lounge Parking Lot 7/20-21, and two returning bands, the Hope Conspiracy and native heroes Weekend Nachos, will headline. That invoice additionally options Frozen Soul, Trendy Life Is Battle, Conservative Navy Picture, Bulldoze, Creeping Loss of life, Ingrown, Morbid Visionz, and Violent Approach, amongst others.
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