Pitchfork Festival: Set Times Revealed! Tix Going Fast!
Friends, music lovers, citizens of the internet: the 2008 Pitchfork Music Festival draws nigh! Today we're pleased to present the set times for all the acts primed to invade Chicago's Union Park July 18-20. Grab a pencil, bust out the PDA, or hit the "print" button and have a look:
A = Aluminum Stage; B = Balance Stage; C = Connector Stage
Friday, July 18 (in conjunction with All Tomorrow's Parties/Don't Look Back):
6:00 p.m. Mission of Burma performing Vs. (C)
7:15 p.m. Sebadoh performing Bubble and Scrape (C)
8:30 p.m. Public Enemy performing It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (A)
Saturday, July 19:
12:30 p.m. Boban i Marko Markovic Orkestar (B)
1:00 p.m. Titus Andronicus (C)
1:25 p.m. A Hawk and a Hacksaw (B)
1:30 p.m. Jay Reatard (A)
2:00 p.m. Caribou (C)
2:20 p.m. Icy Demons (B)
3:00 p.m. Fleet Foxes (A)
3:15 p.m. Fuck Buttons (B)
4:00 p.m. Dizzee Rascal (C)
4:15 p.m. The Ruby Suns (B)
5:00 p.m. Vampire Weekend (A)
5:20 p.m. Elf Power (B)
6:00 p.m. !!! (C)
6:25 p.m. Extra Golden (B)
7:00 p.m. The Hold Steady (A)
7:30 p.m. Atlas Sound (B)
8:00 p.m. Jarvis Cocker (C)
8:25 p.m. No Age (B)
9:00 p.m. Animal Collective (A)
Sunday, July 20:
12:30 p.m. Mahjongg (B)
1:00 p.m. Times New Viking (C)
1:25 p.m. High Places (B)
1:30 p.m. Dirty Projectors (A)
2:00 p.m. Boris (C)
2:20 p.m. HEALTH (B)
3:00 p.m. The Apples in Stereo (A)
3:15 p.m. King Khan & the Shrines (B)
4:00 p.m. Les Savy Fav (C)
4:15 p.m. El Guincho (B)
5:00 p.m. Ghostface Killah & Raekwon (A)
5:20 p.m. Occidental Brothers Dance Band International (B)
6:00 p.m. M. Ward (C)
6:25 p.m. The Dodos (B)
7:00 p.m. Spiritualized (A)
7:30 p.m. Bon Iver (B)
8:00 p.m. Dinosaur Jr. (C)
8:25 p.m. Cut Copy (B)
9:00 p.m. Spoon (A)
And for the cell-phone savvy, a few perks, courtesy of Boost Mobile: text "Pitchfork" to 6509, and you'll get a full Pitchfork Music Festival schedule. Text the name of your favorite fest act (i.e., "Les Savy Fav", "Dirty Projectors") to 65095, and you'll receive an alert 15 minutes before that act goes on. Ain't technology grand?
Only individual day tickets for the 2008 Pitchfork Music Festival remain, and they're going fast! Snag yours while you still can via TicketWeb for the sweet price of $30 each.
Of course these pages have been rife with Pitchfork Music Festival extracurriculars in recent weeks, so here's a quick recap:
-- The 2008 Pitchfork Music Festival Sampler, featuring MP3s from 25 festival acts, is available for free download via eMusic now through August 1.
-- On Thursday, July 17, the Pitchfork Music Festival and the Future of Music Coalition present a panel discussion of It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back featuring Public Enemy's own Bomb Squad members Hank and Keith Shocklee and "Media Assassin" Harry Allen, along with activist/scholar/filmmaker Kembrew McLeod. Details and RSVP info for the free event can be found here.
-- That same evening (July 17), Fleet Foxes, Extra Golden, A Hawk and a Hacksaw, and Boban Markovic will play the Pitchfork Music Festival Preview Night at Chicago's Millennium Park, a free show co-presented by the park's Music Without Borders series and the festival. Details here.
-- The "Audible Architecture: Chicago Nightclubs at Noon" free lunchtime concert series continues this Monday (June 30) with Killer Whales, and keeps rolling through late August.
-- Finally, have you checked out the festival website yet? Pretty much anything you'd ever want to know about the Pitchfork Music Festival awaits, just a link away.
See you in a few weeks!
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