I'm going to this. Takes place in Chicago every year and they always have some rather unknown (to most people) artists/bands on hand. Nice to see that the Sea & Cake are back together and have put out a new album as well. Really looking forward to Battles and Slint. Takes place at Chicago's Union Park July 13-15. Official website 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
I live in the area so thankfully I have easy access. Also thankful that it isn't taking place while I'm in France. I figured you'd be big on seeing Mastodon?
<div class="quote_poster">M Two One Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I live in the area so thankfully I have easy access. Also thankful that it isn't taking place while I'm in France. I figured you'd be big on seeing Mastodon?</div> I saw Mastodon last week here in New York. Played with a good punk band called Against Me that my ladyfriend wanted to see. Mastodon were okay I guess. The pit was pretty slammin'! Not quite Slayer level, but close.
<div class="quote_poster">M Two One Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I live in the area so thankfully I have easy access. Also thankful that it isn't taking place while I'm in France. I figured you'd be big on seeing Mastodon?</div> Yeah, them too. Though I did see them on Saturday. Pretty good show. The one's I'd be really excited about are: Sonic Youth GZA Cat Power Clipse Mastadon Iron & Wine Battles Girl Talk De La Soul Junior Boys Deerhunter The Cool Kids SOMEONE BUY ME A PLANE TICKET!
<div class="quote_poster">phunDamentalz Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I saw Mastodon last week here in New York. Played with a good punk band called Against Me that my ladyfriend wanted to see. Mastodon were okay I guess. The pit was pretty slammin'! Not quite Slayer level, but close.</div> That's cool, man, last time I seen Slayer was a decade ago. Soooo long ago. <div class="quote_poster">Sasha Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Yeah, them too. Though I did see them on Saturday. Pretty good show. The one's I'd be really excited about are: Sonic Youth GZA Cat Power Clipse Mastadon Iron & Wine Battles Girl Talk De La Soul Junior Boys Deerhunter The Cool Kids SOMEONE BUY ME A PLANE TICKET!</div> Why don't you try to get Pitchfork to fly you over to Chicago for the event? It is a long shot, but you never know, yeah? Go to the website and head to the News section. Go to the post from May 7. It reads as: <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Be a Part of the P4k Festival Behind the Scenes Together with our friends at FUZE, we're calling all fans for a chance to see the summer's most cutting-edge festival up close and personal—and be a part of it behind the scenes! We'll pick the best review, photo and poster—and we'll fly each winner and their guest to Chicago, put them up in a hotel for the weekend, and give them $500 cash and two VIP passes to the festival. But that's not all. The writer of the winning review will get to review this year's festival—and their article will be excerpted on Pitchforkmusicfestival.com. The winning photographer will join Pitchfork's official photo crew for the weekend. And the winning poster artist will see a limited edition of their work printed up and for sale on the festival grounds!</div>
