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Aw, shucks. We sincerely regret to inform you that Spanish sampledelic dance sensation Pablo "El Guincho" Díaz-Reixa has been forced to cancel a good portion of his world tour due to personal issues. Yes, that includes his appearance at next weekend's Pitchfork Music Festival as well as his string of dates with Atlas Sound. (Atlas Sound will still be playing those shows.)

A post to the Discoteca Océano blog filed on his behalf notes that El Guincho is exhausted from the whirlwind 2008 he's been enjoying and he needs to take some time off. It also says that he hopes to work on new songs and is thinking of incorporating more people into his shows.

El Guincho's amended itinerary is available below.

Despite that little bummer, things are still looking awfully good for the festival and all the assorted goings-on around it. Note that individual day tickets are available via TicketWeb for all three days of the fest, though that's not gonna last long now. Here's the updated fest lineup, plus a brief recap of all the other nifty stuff coming at you:

El Guincho:

07-11 Cartagena, Spain - La Mar de Musicas
07-18 Benicassim, Spain - Benicassim Festival
07-20 Chicago, IL - Union Park (Pitchfork Music Festival)
07-26 Los Angeles, CA - Getty Museum
07-28 San Francisco, CA - The Independent
07-22 Toronto, Ontario - The Mod Club
07-23 Montreal, Quebec - La Sala Rossa
07-24 Cambridge, MA - Middle East Downstairs
07-25 New York, NY - Seaport Music Festival
08-08 Oslo, Norway - Oya Festival
08-14-16 Hasselt, Belgium - Pukkelpop
09-13 London, England - End of the Road Festival

Pitchfork Music Festival:

Friday, July 18 (in conjunction with All Tomorrow's Parties/Don't Look Back):

Mission of Burma performing Vs.
Sebadoh performing Bubble and Scrape
Public Enemy performing It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

Saturday, July 19:

Boban i Marko Markovic Orkestar
Titus Andronicus
A Hawk and a Hacksaw
Jay Reatard
Caribou
Icy Demons
Fleet Foxes
Fuck Buttons
Dizzee Rascal
The Ruby Suns
Vampire Weekend
Elf Power
!!!
Extra Golden
The Hold Steady
Atlas Sound
Jarvis Cocker
No Age
Animal Collective

Saturday, July 20:

Mahjonng
Times New Viking
High Places
Dirty Projectors
Boris
HEALTH
The Apples in Stereo
King Khan & the Shrines
Les Savy Fav
El Guincho
Ghostface Killah & Raekwon
Occidental Brothers Dance Band International
M. Ward
The Dodos
Spiritualized
Bon Iver
Dinosaur Jr.
Cut Copy
Spoon

Pitchfork Music Festival related activities:

-- 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 is on a brief break at the moment, but picks right back up Monday (July 28) with Bill Callahan, and keeps rolling through late August.

-- Boost Mobile will provide all fest attendees with a handy service to help stave off any beer-induced confusion. If you text "Pitchfork" to 6509, you'll get a full Pitchfork Music Festival schedule. Text the name of your favorite fest act (i.e., "Boris", "Dizzee Rascal") to 65095, and you'll receive an alert 15 minutes before that act goes on.

-- 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.

Won't be long now, everybody!