Pitchfork Music Festival Reveals Final 07 Lineup!

Now with 100% more Mastodon, Junior Boys, Voxtrot, Cadence Weapon, Brightblack Morning Light, the Field, Cool Kids, and William Parker Quartet!
Pitchfork Music Festival Reveals Final 07 Lineup!

So, that's it for this week's Pitchfork news updates. But before we fire up the grill for Memorial Day weekend, we've got one last fish to fry: Ladies and gents, boys and girls, wizards and warriors, Pitchfork is pleased to announce...THE FINAL LINEUP OF THE 2007 PITCHFORK MUSIC FESTIVAL, popping off at Chicago's Union Park July 13-15.

We've already announced Sonic Youth rocking the entirety of Daydream Nation, GZA/Genius performing Liquid Swords, and Slint doing Spiderland. You also heard about Yoko Ono, De La Soul, Cat Power and Dirty Delta Blues, the New Pornographers, Clipse, Iron & Wine, Of Montreal, Stephen Malkmus, Battles, Jamie Lidell, the Sea and Cake, Girl Talk, Grizzly Bear, Deerhunter, Klaxons, and all the rest.

Now we have the final additions. And they are...

Reigning metal majordomos Mastodon! Glossed-out electro-pop giants Junior Boys! Deft indie janglers Voxtrot! Techno maestro the Field! Laser-tongued MC Cadence Weapon (aka ex-Pitchfork scribe Rollie Pemberton, full disclosure fans)! Swamp-psych duo Brightblack Morning Light! Jazz envelope-pushers William Parker Quartet! And rising Chicago rap duo the Cool Kids!

And so, here it is, the final lineup, in its entirety (with today's additions in boldface).. the 2007 Pitchfork Music Festival!

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

Tickets are still on sale at Ticketweb-- but act fast, as individual Friday night passes (a paltry $15) are nearly sold out! Once those are gone, you're left with three-day passes at $50, individual passes for Saturday and Sunday at $25, or the Saturday/Sunday pass, which will run you $35. Still an unbeatable deal, if you don't mind our saying so.

In the meantime, keep up on all the latest festival news and details by bookmarking the Pitchfork Music Festival webpage and by tuning into the Pitchfork Music Festival podcast.

See you in July!

Posted by Matthew Solarski on Fri, May 25, 2007 at 2:40pm