Pitchfork Music Festival: Sunday Sold Out

Only five days left, and tickets for the second day, Sunday, July 30, of the Pitchfork Music Festival are completely sold out. That leaves us with no more Sunday-only passes available, and, as we told you two weeks ago, no more two-day festival passes. Sorry, folks.

Single-day passes are still available for Saturday, July 29, but they're going VERY quickly. Online ticket sales will end on Wednesday, July 26 at 6 p.m. Central time. Saturday tickets are also available for purchase at the Page Brothers Building, located at 191 N. State Street, every day from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., until they're gone. The Page Brothers Building is also currently hosting the rock-poster gallery show Graphic Noise, featured as part of the City of Chicago's Public Art Program. The show is on view daily from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.

A couple of other festival reminders: there will be no re-entry to the festival, and due to another event, United Center will not be able to provide parking for the festival attendees. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Even if you missed out on getting tickets to the second day of the festival, there are still plenty of ways to celebrate with us this week. Of course, there's the festival pre-party, taking place Friday, July 28 at Metro, featuring performances by Sunset Rubdown, Voxtrot, Joggers, and comedians Eugene Mirman, Todd Barry, and Aziz Ansari, as well as the Life During Wartime DJs. Tickets are on sale now!

The Gene Siskel Film Center, located at 164 N. State Street, is hosting screenings of two awesome music documentaries expressing the spirit of the Pitchfork Music Festival. The first film, Screaming Masterpiece, directed by Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon and released in 2005, is a documentary about Icelandic popular music featuring interviews with and performances from Björk, Sigur Rós, Amiina, Múm, Jóhann Jóhannsson, and many others. It will be screened tonight, July 24, and Thursday, July 27 at 8 p.m.

The second film, Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders From Mars - The Motion Picture, directed by the legendary D.A. Pennebaker, chronicles the 1973 concert that would be David Bowie's last in his Ziggy Stardust persona. It will be screened at the Siskel Center July 29 at 8 p.m., July 30 at 5:30 p.m., and Aug 2 at 8 p.m.

The Chicago Cultural Center's Randolph Café, located at 78 E. Washington Street, is dedicating its LunchBreak concert series to Chicago bands handpicked by the city's leading clubs. All of the shows start at 12 p.m., and here's what the schedule for the rest of the week looks like:

Plus, as an added bonus, attendees with Pitchfork Music Festival ticket stubs will be admitted free to the Empty Bottle, Hideout, Martyrs', Metro, or Schubas following the festival on the nights of Saturday, July 29 and Sunday, July 30, thanks to the League of Chicago Music Venues. (Each day's ticket must be relinquished at club to
receive free admittance-- Saturday's festival ticket for Saturday night admission and Sunday's festival ticket for Sunday night admission.)

To get everyone psyched for the big weekend, our friends at eMusic have put together a FREE 24-track compilation of Pitchfork Music Festival artists, available HERE for your downloading pleasure. It features advance songs from the new Yo La Tengo and Mountain Goats records as well as music from Destroyer, Chin Up Chin Up, Futureheads, Ghislain Poirier, Mission of Burma, Jens Lekman, Matmos, Danielson, the National, Aesop Rock, Matthew Dear, Chicago Underground Duo, Spoon, Ted Leo, Devendra Banhart, Nels Cline, Art Brut, the Walkmen, 8 Bold Souls, and more!

Along with the compilation, eMusic is also offering the opportunity to receive 50 free downloads when you sign up for an eMusic trial. So basically, you're getting 74 free songs. Pretty sweet deal, huh?

Remember that in addition to the bands, the Pitchfork Music Festival will also host a variety of activities and attractions, including the Flatstock 9 Poster Convention, the WLUW record fair and the DEPART-ment craft and clothing fair.

Man, just reading about all that stuff is exhausting--in a good way, of course. To help keep track of all the Pitchfork Music Festival excitement, we've teamed up with Opt It to start a little text messaging community. Sign up by texting "Pitchfork" to 46786 or by clicking HERE. After you sign up, you'll get exclusive and secret info during the week of the festival, as well as chances to win some really cool giveaway items, and maybe even tickets to a sold out show.

Once again, a VERY limited amount $20 one-day passes for Saturday, July 29 are on sale now. Be sure to check out the Pitchfork Music Festival website. There, you'll find information about the bands, as well as lodging, location, onsite activities, vendors, sponsors, directions, and more.

Only five more days!!!