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And there you have it! With this announcement you're reading right now, the lineup for the 2008 Pitchfork Music Festival-- descending on Chicago's Union Park July 18-20-- is officially complete. And just which artists are we pleased to welcome to the bill this time out?

Well, filling out Friday's Don't Look Back festivities (held in conjunction with our pals at All Tomorrow's Parties), we have lo-fi giants Sebadoh, who will perform their soon-to-be-reissued 1993 album Bubble and Scrape in its entirety. They join Mission of Burma, blasting through Vs., and Public Enemy, turning back that clock to 1988's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.

Then on Saturday, the Pitchfork Music Festival welcomes a bar band of arena proportions-- the mighty Hold Steady-- along with the percussion-heavy psych-pop of Caribou, the sunny day stylings of Elephant 6 affiliates Elf Power, Jersey barnstormers Titus Andronicus, the offbeat jazzy experiments of Chicago's Icy Demons, and the Balkans' own Boban i Marko Markovic Orkestar.

Finally, on Sunday, the epic bill expands to include a quintet of impressive relative newcomers: folkie Bon Iver, noisemakers Times New Viking, chaos-mongers HEALTH, rhythm-happy Brooklyn duo High Places (full disclosure: featuring the sister of a former Pitchfork staffer), and high-energy genre-melders Mahjongg. Whew!

Here's what all that looks like in convenient list form (latest additions starred):

Friday, July 18:
Pitchfork Music Festival and All Tomorrow's Parties present "Don't Look Back"

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

Saturday, July 19:

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

Sunday, July 20:

Spoon
Dinosaur Jr.
Spiritualized
M. Ward
Ghostface and Raekwon
Les Savy Fav
The Apples in Stereo
Boris
Dirty Projectors
* Times New Viking *
Cut Copy
* Bon Iver *
The Dodos
King Khan & His Shrines
El Guincho
Fuck Buttons
* HEALTH *
* High Places *
* Mahjongg *

Tickets for the 2008 Pitchfork Music Festival are on sale now, and they're going fast. As in previous years, we've worked to ensure you get the most bang for your buck. Three-day passes run $65, two-day passes for Saturday and Sunday go for $50, and individual day passes can be yours for $30. If you like seeing awesome bands outdoors in the summertime in one of the world's great cities and don't want to spend a lot of money doing it, you can buy your tickets here.

And once again, the Pitchfork Music Festival is thrilled to remind you that its new radio partner, KEXP, will broadcast live from Chicago in the days leading up to the festival. KEXP DJs John Richards and Cheryl Waters will do their shows from the festival grounds on Saturday and Sunday, and throughout the weekend KEXP will air select live festival performances.