News: Pitchfork Music Festival 2008
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Here are the last couple of weeks in music news. You may remember Ryan's post about Pitchfork Music Festival 2007, well it looks like 2008 will be another great year for this Chicago, Illinois-based organization. The Pitchfork Festival 2008 will take place July 18-20th and will feature over forty bands.
I think this Festival is shaping up quite well, and who knows? Maybe in a few years it will rival some of England's more famous Festivals like Glastonbury and Reading.
For a limited time, Pitchfork and eMusic are giving away 25 tracks for free. Since we have covered many of these bands, I have included links to our previous articles below. Grab it now because last year's 2007 Sampler is no longer available.
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01 Mission of Burma: "Academy Fight Song"
02 Boris: "Ibitsu" 03 Cut Copy: "Lights & Music" 04 Jarvis Cocker: "Don't Let Him Waste Your Time" 05 Spiritualized: "Soul on Fire" 06 Extra Golden: "OK-Oyot System" 07 The Dodos: "Jodi" 08 High Places: "Sandy Feat" (7" Version) 09 Mahjongg: "Those Birds Are Bats" 10 Atlas Sound: "River Card" 11 Bon Iver: "For Emma" 12 No Age: "Neck Escaper" 13 Times New Viking: "Drop-Out" |
14 The King Khan & BBQ Show: "I'll Never Belong" 15 Jay Reatard: "My Shadow" 16 Dizzee Rascal: "Sirens" 17 Fuck Buttons: "Bright Tomorrow" 18 HEALTH: "Glitter Pills" 19 Animal Collective: "Grass" 20 Boban Markovic Orkestar: "Balkan Fest" 21 A Hawk and a Hacksaw and the Hun Hangar Ensemble: "Serbian Cocek" 22 Les Savy Fav: "The Equestrian" 23 Elf Power: "Never Believe" 24 The Apples in Stereo: "Energy" 25 Dinosaur Jr.: "Almost Ready" |
All I have to say is: Dinosaur Jr are still together? Far out.
Other news should really come as no surprise: France is banning pirates, Duffy got some mojo, LeAnn Rimes makes her very own "My Little Pony", Beatles song making it onto Rock Band, insanely expensive gasoline prices are causing indie bands to stop touring, and how to make your very own Daft Punk suit. That last story inspired me to actually want to buy these inexpensive neon lights to design my own "Sleeper" logo shirt or something? Weekend project, anyone?
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Times New Viking are also great. Best album so far this year!
I think I may have a new mission in life: to singlehandedly expose Pitchfork Media for the slackjawed industry mouthpieces they are.
Haha.
What do you think of stereogum ?
BTW, I don't think they had a hand in picking the songs? I could be wrong, but the way a lot of these works is that the record label or PR company usually pick the song to give away.
I think it's pretty amazing they could pull something like this at all :)
génial : merci beaucoup pour l'information
Amitiés :)
As to who is in charge of picking songs for a comp...well, who knows, really. Whoever chose these particular tracks, and the particular bands, needs to expand his/her/its horizons stat.
I'm not particularly impressed with large festivals like this. Lollapalooza and SXSW prettymuch ruined the concept of gathering together hundreds of bands by having them all play at the same goddamn time--and charging entire organs for tickets. These days, all I do is go to small local shows where I can actually meet the bands and hang out with them.
re: Atmosphere, it's funny you should mention him because he's from Minneapolis (my hometown) and I generally don't listen to hip-hop, but he's pretty decent although I always think of him as "local". He's huge everywhere.
BTW, I hate the word blog and whenever people ask about this, I don't tell them it's a blog. I've always envision it as a fanzine (I used to make fanzines back in the day), and I treat all the articles as if it's made for print. Check out some random pages: 11 and 5. Eventually when I have a lot of time, I want to look into formatting articles for print.
I mean, there are definitely worse music sites out there. And Pitchfork does cover some pretty diverse stuff, even if it what they emphasize does seem to follow industry trends (it has to; that's what keeps it popular enough to continue operating the way it does). The fact is, they probably get more weird underground releases to cover than probably any other site on the internet. I'd say it's my favorite music site just for that reason. With a little digging, you'll find a lot of cool stuff to listen to on their site. Stuff that WHM would probably never get sent directly, and stuff I'd have never heard without Pitchfork's prompting.
Just my 2 cents.
Oh, and if I actually remember my camera, I'll try and cover the Dodos show coming up here.
I think the next one I want to talk about is The Boy Bathing, that was surprisingly really good (randomly showed up on my "recently added" music playlist).
But yeah. TNV is great. I really love how half the people who listened to it because Pitchfork liked it hated it. It just reminds me of the "indie rock" of old, where it was perfectly acceptable for recordings to have tons of intentional (or otherwise) tape hiss all over them.
I'm not a big fan of the word "blog," either, as I was trained in writing for print, and approach everything I do from that standpoint as well.