Pitchfork Music Festival 2023

Pitchfork Music Festival 2023July 21 - 23, 2023Union Park, Chicago, Illinois, 60606 There can be a bit of uncertainty when one wants to assign a single "best" word to describe the 2023 iteration of the Pitchfork Music Festival. Rejuvenated, revivified, and recharged come to mind. Honestly, attempting to distill this ...
July 25, 2023
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Chicagoland Summer Music Festivals 2016

Chicagoland Summer Music 2016 Greetings all music lovers! Here's a snippet of what's being offered up this summer at some area festivals: Do Division Street Fest - June 3-5, 2016 Music acts are booked by The Empty Bottle and Subterranean, this is for those interested in music on the fringe of ...
March 29, 2016
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2015 – Pitchfork Music Festival Review

Pitchfork Music Festival Review Union Park, Chicago, Illinois July 17-19, 2015 Pitchfork's 10th Anniversary!!! In the 10th installment of Pitchfork, one experienced an extremely hot and humid Day 1, torrential rain that evacuated the grounds (briefly) on Day 2, and a pleasant, yet warm, setting for Day 3. Once again, the festival ...
July 21, 2015
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Chance the Rapper to Close Out Pitchfork 2015

Featured Artist: Chance the Rapper Pitchfork Music Festival Union Park, Chicago, Illinois Sunday, July 19, 2015 With the recent release of his 1st studio album, Surf, Chance the Rapper will be calling closure to festivities in Chicago's near west side festival. Since the May 28th release, Surf (with Donnie Trumpet & The Social ...
July 10, 2015
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Sleater-Kinney @ Pitchfork 7-18-15

Featured Artist: Sleater-Kinney Pitchfork (Green Stage) @ 8:30 p.m., 7/18/15 Union Park, Chicago, Illinois After a long hiatus dating back to 2006, Sleater-Kinney has reunited and released their 8th studio album, No Cities to Love. Now touring their punk inspired effort Carrie Brownstein, vocalist/guitarist Corin Tucker, and drummer Janet Weiss will be ...
July 8, 2015
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Wilco – Headlining Pitchfork 2015

Featured Artist 7/6/15: Wilco Wilco is set for 8:30 p.m. on the Green Stage at Pitchfork, Friday, July, 17, 2015. Based in Chicago, Wilco will top off the 1st day of festivities. Pitchfork, the user-friendly festival offers a diverse look at up-and-coming musicians in their zone. One can catch this ...
July 6, 2015
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Pitchfork – Day 2 – July 19, 2014

Pitchfork - Day 2 - July 19, 2014 Union Park, Chicago Day two of this Indie/Rap/Noise festival continued to provide a plethora of diversity, texture, and new music. Cadien Lake James of Twin Peaks started the day out in a wheel-chair grinding out a perfervid verse with the Chicago quartet. ...
July 20, 2014
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Pitchfork – Day 1 – July 18, 2014

Pitchfork - Day 1 - July 18, 2014 Union Park, Chicago So off we go with the retro return of Donna Summers by-way-of Giorgio Moroder, some plucky roadhouse rambling, melodic tonal spheres amassing in the SW park corner...and a little reminiscing and feeling somewhat middle aged upon realizing that Beck is ...
July 19, 2014
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