Official 2008 Pitchfork Music Festival Website
The 2008 Pitchfork Music Festival invades Chicago’s Union Park from July 18-20. We’ve already revealed 13 of the 41 scheduled acts — including Public Enemy doing It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Animal Collective, and Spiritulized– and we’re pleased to now announce 13 more.
On Friday night, the Pitchfork Music Festival and All Tomorrow’s Parties present “Don’t Look Back” and, along with the previously announced appearance by PE, Mission of Burma will play their just-reissued classic Vs., along with a third artist to be announced later.
Other additions to the lineup include the legendary Dinosaur Jr., Ghostface and Raekwon of the Wu-Tang Clan, and Jarvis Cocker, who will be making his first Midwest appearance in more than 12 years. Also set to appear: the Apples in Stereo, Dirty Projectors, Cut Copy, Jay Reatard, King Khan & His Shrines, Fuck Buttons, the Ruby Suns, A Hawk and a Hacksaw, and Chicago’s own Occidental Brothers Dance Band International.
The Festival Lineup to date is (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
* Mission of Burma performing Vs. *
+ one more to be announced
Saturday, July 19:
Animal Collective
* Jarvis Cocker *
!!!
Vampire Weekend
Dizzee Rascal
Fleet Foxes
No Age
* Jay Reatard *
* King Khan & His Shrines *
Atlas Sound
* The Ruby Suns *
* A Hawk and a Hacksaw *
* Occidental Brothers Dance Band International *
+ many more!
Sunday, July 20:
* Dinosaur Jr. *
Spiritualized
M. Ward
* Ghostface and Raekwon *
* The Apples in Stereo *
Boris
* Dirty Projectors *
* Cut Copy *
Extra Golden
El Guincho
* Fuck Buttons *
+ many more!
Tickets for the 2008 Pitchfork Music Festival are on sale now. 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 listening to great music 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 if all that onstage goodness isn’t enough, the Pitchfork Music Festival is thrilled to announce 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 selected festival performances as they happen.
KEXP??? John and Cheryl???? Excellent!!!!
Very excited by this lineup and cannot wait to check this out this summer.
thanks for pointing this out, I’m going to pick up the MoB box that Matador has out. Unfortunately I’m not going to be in town for the show.