Pitchfork released the remainder of its 2012 festival lineup today, adding acts such as Real Estate, Beach House, Atlas Sound, and Wild Flag to an already solid lineup. 3-day passes are long gone, but you can still find day passes for the July 13 – 15 fest on Ticketweb. Check out the full lineup below.
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Half of Chicago’s own mash-up duo, The Hood Internet, played to a sold out Empty Bottle crowd on Saturday night. Aaron was mysteriously absent, but Steve (aka STV SLV) held it down on his own, mixing up a surprising number of R. Kelly songs, and a pretty stellar Chromeo + Whitney Houston mash-up called When
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Beth Tacular and Phil Moore left their hand-built cabin in the woods of North Carolina to hit the road promoting their new record, The Clearing. They stopped off at Lincoln Hall on Thursday with their band Bowerbirds to softly rock the quiet, but attentive crowd. I actually thought the band was just Phil and Beth –
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When he isn’t writing songs for The Good Life or touring under his own name, Tim Kasher still plays with Cursive, the band he started with bass player Matt Maginn in the ’90s. They stopped off at Lincoln Hall just a few days into a long tour to promote their new album, I am Gemini.
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Pitchfork has expanded its 2012 festival line up to include Brooklyn bands Sleigh Bells and Dirty Projectors and it claims there are 20 bands yet to announce. 3-day passes to the July 13th – 15th festival have sold out, but you can still score day passes ($45) on TicketWeb. Here’s the line up revealed thus
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Lead singer Matt Vasquez looked a bit more clean cut than the last time Delta Spirit rolled through town in August of last year, but his demeanor was true to form. He talked about how it’s unfair that they only gets to come to Chicago a couple times a year, drank some beers on stage,
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So they didn’t rock my socks off, but it was a solid show. I missed the opening act and showed up at the front end of the Tennis set. Lincoln Hall is always great – it’s just big enough to book legit acts but small enough to show up late and still be able to
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Uber-hipster online music publication Pitchfork has released a partial line up for it’s 8th Pitchfork Music Festival, going down July 13th – 15th at Chicago’s Union Park. I’m stoked for Feist and Vampire Weekend, both of whom I’ve seen before and put on very different, but equally entertaining shows. Tickets go on sale Friday March
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