Here is a round-up of all the posts from Yancey and Joe from their time at the Pitchfork Festival. Enjoy…
Day One
Day One Wrap-Up [Yancey]
Day Two
Ken Vandermark Powerhouse Sound [Joe]
Voxtrot / Grizzly Bear [Joe]
Battles [Joe]
Iron and Wine / Mastodon [Joe]
Mastodon [Joe]
Mastodon / Clipse [Joe]
Cat Power [Joe]
Day Two Wrap-Up [Yancey]
Day Three
Deerhunter / The Ponys [Joe]
Deerhunter / Menomena [...]

Well, De La Soul just brought out Prince Paul, officially flipping me out. However lackluster they’ve been in the past is irrelevant now; they have the whole huge crowd in the palm of their hand, getting them to holler back hooks and join in in the chorus to “pass the plugs”. Its absolutely triumphant, and [...]

It’s something to see: across the field the New Pornographers are storming through “my slow descent…” while on the second stage, de la soul’s DJ is soundchecking, ready to start up the second the NPs quit (the pornos never quite fixed those sound problems, but they soldiered on anyway). Its been like a fantasy world [...]

it was a bumpy start for a Neko-less New Pornographers; the low end was too loud and it was bludgeoning everything in sight. “use it” was splotchy and blunt, more about percussion than melody. It’s evening out a little now. “the laws have changed” is just starting to get airborne, and Kath is doing a [...]

Right now Kevin Barnes is onstage dressed as Tim Curry from Rocky Horror: leather corset, leather underpants, fishnet stockings, leather policemans hat. And now they’ve brought out a guy in a puffy suit, whose head is comprised of cardboard cutouts of Barnes’ face. The guitarist has pink wings on. The music this band makes is [...]

Day two of the Pitchfork Music Festival was long. So many acts, so many of them great. Here’s a quick-and-dirty image-based recap.

wow. I was one of the few completely underwhelmed by “the greatest,” but chan marshall sounds fantastic tonight. Backed by members of dirty 3, blues explosion and delta 72, she’s turning songs inside out, making them dark, smoky ciphers. Her voice is gorgeous and chalky and the band, anchored in burbling organ, captures that Memphis [...]

Ok, Mastodon are totally killing it.

there’s no picture, because I am attempting to do this as-it-happens. We’ll see how it goes! The weather in Chicago is gorgeous, breezy and crisp and cool, and right now Ken Vandermark Powerhouse Spund is in the middle of a fierce, ferocious set. The combo is aptly named; like the best 70s no wave bands, [...]

Friday was nostalgia night at the opening of the Pitchfork Music Festival, a chance to for-reals out-dork, out-know and out-class everyone on music snobbery and it be (somewhat) accepted. Quick: who most quickly identified the closing, non-Spiderland track of the Slint set? Who could identify more than three people on stage while the GZA played? [...]

Several of us are off to the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago soon, and we’ll be bringing you full coverage throughout the weekend. Until then, though, we wanted to give you a little primer for what to expect from this weekend’s event.

Performing Artist
Security Comes For…
Backstage Demand
Set Highlight
Pitchfork Score

Sonic Youth
Billy Corgan, making a backstage play for [...]