Yoko Ono, Califone, Sea & Cake Join Pitchfork Fest

Plus: Twilight Sad, Nomo, Fred Lonberg-Holm's Lightbox Orchestra
Yoko Ono, Califone, Sea & Cake Join Pitchfork Fest Another week, another round of Pitchfork Music Festival madness! Today, we're ecstatic to announce that Yoko Ono, Califone, the Sea and Cake, the Twilight Sad, Nomo, and Fred Lonberg-Holm's Lightbox Orchestra have joined the already impressive lineup for this year's fest, going down July 13-15 at Chicago's Union Park.

Visionary music-maker Ono, perennial favorites Califone, and Scottish upstarts the Twilight Sad will now perform Saturday alongside Cat Power, Clipse, Iron and Wine, and more, while indie rock institution the Sea and Cake, Michigan Afrobeat party-starters Nomo, and experimental jazz/noise ensemble Fred Lonberg-Holm's Lightbox Orchestra beef up a Sunday roster that already includes the New Pornographers, De La Soul, and Stephen Malkmus, among others.

And let's not forget Friday's festival opening event, held in conjunction with All Tomorrow's Parties' Don't Look Back, at which Sonic Youth will perform the whole of Daydream Nation, GZA/Genius will slice straight through Liquid Swords, and Slint will showcase all of Spiderland.

The lineup to date (newly announced artists in bold):

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 & JSBX)
Clipse
Iron and Wine
Girl Talk
Grizzly Bear
Battles
Califone
The Twilight Sad
Fujiya & Miyagi
Oxford Collapse
Dan Deacon
Beach House
Professor Murder
Ken Vandermark's Powerhouse Sound

Sunday, July 15:

The New Pornographers
De La Soul
Stephen Malkmus
Of Montreal
Jamie Lidell
The Sea and Cake
Menomena
Klaxons
The Ponys
Deerhunter
Nomo
Craig Taborn's Junk Magic
Fred Lonberg-Holm's Lightbox Orchestra

As you well know by now, tickets are on sale now at Ticketweb. Three-day passes cost $50, Friday night costs $15, Saturday and Sunday individual passes cost $25, and a Saturday/Sunday pass costs $35.

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Posted by Matthew Solarski on Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 11:30am