Pitchfork Music Festival 2008

i think they'd be hard-pressed to top the lineup for their v. atp thing but this looks cool enough

I can miss Public Enemy altogether. Yes I can.

What, no John Jackson or Hadioread??

Saturday is shaping up nicely, but Boris is the only band on either of the other two days I would care to see.

Boris, AniCo and Spiritualized aside...I'll pass, thanks.

anyone else going this year?

I'm going three days and my wife will be going on and off sat. sun. - Honestly she's got the right idea - there's a lot of wandering to be done between sets I think. I'm stoked for all of 'All Tmrw's Parties' night, and AniCo, Hold Steady, !!!, Dizee Rascal, No Age, Atlas Sound and Fuck Buttons - and holding my wife's hand to help her pray for Pulp songs during Jarvis Cocker's performance - otherwise - eh' for Sat. - drink some barley pops I guess. Sunday is get high day - D Jr., Spiritualized, Les Savy Fav, Ghostface, Boris (!!!!), Dodos, King Khan, Mahjongg - righteous! Work is gonna suck the next day.

ill prob go see rae and ghost since this shit is basically less than a mile from my apt

kinda wanna see el guincho too

the girl and I have tickets, should be there.

sat&sun

I'll be there!

Either this or Lolla. I haven't decided yet. Both are pretty nice this year.

Help me decide, ILX!

Pitchfork. I hear the hot dogs are NOT TO BE MISSED.

this. cheaper, everyone says it's better run etc. etc.

plus whiney i thought you were like the biggest public enemy dude ever

missed it last year, but i'll be there this year.

that enough for you, weingarten? ;-)

I'll be there -- prob. not for Friday, though.

yeah i'm there sat. and sun. only

Going all three days...

I flew to see the Public Enemy Don't Look Back in London--where PE fans are crazy rowdy (and where the actual live samples on the record are from!)--and I can't imagine this show is going to be better than that.

I'm just saying: Radiohead, Kanye, RATM, NIN--I can't see those bands every day. The Pfork indie rock crop is super easy to see in NYC at any given time. BUT Pfork will be more laid back and full of all my buddies.

So it's actually kind of a hard decision for me.

Both lineups are great!

Last year's pfork was run about as well as I can imagine a big outdoor fest being run.

come to Roskilde, you can see Radiohead and you won't even have to see Kanye

Yeah, I wanna go there! Jay-Z and Slayer! Also = $!

I guess I'll be there too. I hope to actually see bands this year instead of hiding in the shade eating free chipotle burritos. Curious about El Guincho and super-psyched about Apples in Stereo!!! Also, whoa, Elf Power?

Lollapalooza involves roughly a thousand times more walking than pitchfork, Whiney, if you have any strong opinions on walking.

Are you assuming that because I write about rock bands, that I'm an immobile fatass?

I love walking!

j/k I'll bring my Rascal

Man, I wish I was going to this this year. Alas, Chicago is more than a bus ride away now, and I do not have the money for tickets, a place to stay, and transportation. Last year was, as everyone is saying, run really well. They gave out free bottles of water to people who were sticking near the front of the stages, which I thought was really cool! Oh yeah, the bands were pretty great too.

Except for GZA. He just did not want to be there.

any fun afterparties yet? im guessing modular will do one, but on the saturday there is a throne of blood party at sonotheque with mattie from the rapture, james fucking friedman, and dances with white girls.. should be good!

last year that loft party w/ deerhunter & dan deacon was redonkulous. and getting 4am cheese fries and pizza puffs afterwards was even better.

I'd like to see Extra Golden, but not enough to deal with all the rest of the B.S.

if theres one of those hipster loft parties somewhere on milwaukee ave that has like 300 ppl and bad local hipster rappers spinning juke remixes of duffel bag boy ill probably end up at that

(Those of you who have attended previous festivals may remember the Balance Stage as the "third stage," and while acts playing there will still run concurrently with the other two stages, the area within the grounds alloted to this stage has been greatly expanded.)

This is good news.

me and some pals are driving up. should be amusing. not the hysterical omgfest it could be. i was pretty pissed to see the atp ny thing after hitching my wagon firmly to this guy. ho vel.

if anyone's interested in this, me and 2 people need to get rid of our tickets at the last minute:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330251897577&ssPageName=ADME:L:LCA:US:1123

and we're selling 'em super cheap.

OMG that Bomb Squad/PE set.

OMG that Bomb Squad/PE set.

Surprisingly awesome. Hilarious when Flav was pushing his tv show and everyone booed. I thought it might be ugly for a sec. Flav, first rule of indie cred: don't cross-market your vh1 reality show.

I'm not sure that Public Enemy, and especially Flava Flav, has ever aimed for indie cred.

Sorry, irony wasn't conveyed very well.

ugh rain. maybe ill skip today and just go to party

I'm there RIGHT NOW

Vegan ice cream is not to be missed

burma - awesome.
sebadoh - decent.
public enemy - wow. it was like a PE show that devolved into live reality show action.

icy demons ya ya.
ruby suns ... let down a bit. can't you guys get some more bandmates?
fuck buttons... needed to be louder.
atlas sound ... was enjoyable.
no age... moshing ya! many good times.
animal collective... good god, i think there's like easily 2x more people here than 2 years ago. i keep flashing back to seeing avey tare and panda bear with like 20 people in a dive bar. one of the regular working class drunks was like, "sounds like a dolphin fart!" i suppose it's changed a bit. more lights.

bbq seitan tacos me like.
m.

ay was ilx poster n/a @ p4k today? if so were you wearing a green shirt? pretty sure i saw u @ jay reatard and no age

will be looking out 4 whiney g weingarten tomorrow

today i saw

titus andronicus: were okay i guess, their singer is laughably bad live
jay reatard: was not impressed, sound better on record
fleet foxes: actually translated way better than i thought they would, dudes were kinda dickish i thought but it was way less boring than i anticipated. got a great guitar sound
dizzee: immediately dissed fleet foxes ("i heard yall listenin to that shit...fuck that shit") and almost fought the sound guys. otherwise he was pretty great. it was nice to hear some rap.
vampire weekend: played whole album i think. all done pretty faithfully and pretty greatly. wished the sun was out but :/
hold steady: good fest band, left halfway through cuz when you've seen one hold steady song live you've seen em all
atlas sound: way out in the shade on the C stage, only went to see this to get a good spot for no age/i think the new deerhunter record is good. he was great, real tranquil and hypnotic, if it wasn't all muddy i woulda sat down and zoned out. had one song that was really dancable kinda like high places. surprise highlight imo.
no age: brought the place down even in the face of a diva soundcheck and a buncha amp problems. extended outro of "neck escaper" <3. bringing out abe vigoda <3<3
animal collective: 16 minute version of "fireworks" was cool

ay was ilx poster n/a @ p4k today? if so were you wearing a green shirt? pretty sure i saw u @ jay reatard and no age

-- J0rdan S., Sunday, July 20, 2008 6:30 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Link

yes and i'll be there today too, you can say hi if you want

but i might leave after les savy fav b/c i could give a fuck about anyone playing after them

i think the sound was just shitty for jay reatard because he was the first act on that stage and the sound guys were still figuring things out. you could hear the sound changing throughout the set, though they never got the guitar or drums loud enough, which was disappointing

best shit from yesterday:

dizzee rascal
extra golden
atlas sound
animal collective

no age: brought the place down even in the face of a diva soundcheck

that stage was running behind all day... so you'd show up at the time and wait 15-20 minutes for it to start. enough mic checks to scream.

Jarvis closing with a cover of "Face It" by Master C & J was awesome.

if it wasn't all muddy i woulda sat down and zoned out

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3180/2685539698_82baa5537e.jpg

Atlas Sound would have been even better if I couldn't hear the Hold Steady at the same time.

umm i don't blame no age for whatever "diva sound check" you dudes are on about, there was like no guitar at all coming through in the first song so it seems like getting that fixed would be the thing to do

J0rdan -- I was standing near n/a for Atlas Sound and No Age. Say hi to me, too (or I'll say hi to you, now that I know to look out for you.)

aight if i see you guys today ill say hey

I was only in for fri and sat. I'm typing this from the airport! Have fun for me, guys!

dizzee: immediately dissed fleet foxes ("i heard yall listenin to that shit...fuck that shit")

finally someone understands, this band SUCKS so bad

Wait, so did Cut Copy actually show up last night? If they were held up at the airport at 9:00, I couldn't imagine them actually making it in time to play, but this indicates they did. Man, I wished I'd stuck around.

They did! They finally went on around 9:30 and their set was fantastic.

best shit from sunday:

les savy fav, duh
times new viking
dirty projectors (still kinda cold towards this band but technically what they were doing was pretty impressive)

xp And I was on the el by then. :(

yeah... the cut copy half-set was super awesome. what a crowd response.

not to mention seeing jay reatard stick a flower between his butt cheeks beforehand... butt i digress...

tnv and dodos were great. then the b stage finale.

Best shit from Sunday:
Boris (with a gong and a smoke machine)
Occidental Brothers
Spiritualized (ending their set with "Come Together" and "Take Me to the Other Side")
Dinosaur Jr (no, really)

Flav, first rule of indie cred: don't cross-market your vh1 reality show.

I think he was cross-marketing his terrible-looking sitcom where he lives with an "uptight" "nerdy" guy wearing second-hand Carlton Banks wardrobe from the Fresh Prince archives

I.e., even worse

I think he was cross-marketing his terrible-looking sitcom where he lives with an "uptight" "nerdy" guy wearing second-hand Carlton Banks wardrobe from the Fresh Prince archives

i decided to do touristy shit around chicago instead of seeing times new viking

looking forward to the p4k tv videos though

i thought the lineup was really slanted towards saturday and i was beat from standing all day sat and generally walking all weekend so i just chilled out b/w the two stages

les savy fav sounded w/e, i think tim harrington is kind of obnoxious
dodos were cool i guess
m. ward sounded nice as i was laying in the shade, couldn't imagine that i'd be excited to see him if i was standing in the 90 degree heat amongst thousands of ppl
ghost and rae were about as good as expected + it was just cool to literally see them
caught the last bit of bon iver which sounded pretty cool as well, good timing for him to play
im gonna see cut copy in sept so i wasn't totally bummed about them not playing their full set. i actually felt worse for them since i think only playing 30 mins is in a way worse than not playing at all. only thing is that ant any subsequent show it will be impossible to replicate their really great mini-set from last night since it came at the end of a long weekend and it was outside and basically like a rave.
spoon was tight as always and surprisingly loud (again)

les savy fav sounded w/e

Best set I saw all weekend.

Boris (with a gong and a smoke machine)

It was awesome to see Boris with both of those at the Empty Bottle Sunday night.

I didn't end up going to Pfork this year, sounds like I missed some good performances.

les savy fav sounded w/e, i think tim harrington is kind of obnoxious

this ^

gtfo, both of you

just cause i've always wanted to see them live and never have

Almost half of Saturday's lineup (Dizzee Rascal, Vampire Weekend, Animal Collective) showed up in Toronto on Sunday for a smaller festival.

maybe rupert murdoch's gonna buy pfork now too

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121729827686392221.html?mod=googlenews_wsj