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The
Pitchfork Music Festival is an
annual summer music festival
organized by Pitchfork Media and
held in Union Park in Chicago, IL.
The festival, which is normally held
over three days (Friday, Saturday,
and Sunday) in July, focuses
primarily on artists and bands from
alternative rock, rap & hip-hop,
electronica, and dance music,
although it has also included acts
from hardcore punk,
experimental/avant-garde rock and
jazz in its lineups.
Lineup includes: Vampire Weekend,
Feist, Godspeed You! Black Emperor,
Hot Chip, AraabMuzik, ASAP Rocky,
the Field, Liturgy, Kendrick Lamar,
Grimes, Cloud Nothings, Tim Hecker,
and Willis Earl Beal, Beach House,
Wild Flag, Dirty Projectors, Chavez,
Thee Oh Sees, Cults, Atlas Sound,
Flying Lotus, Big K.R.I.T., Iceage,
Youth Lagoon, Clams Casino, Nicolas
Jaar.
Pitchfork Media, usually known
simply as Pitchfork or P4k, is a
Chicago-based daily Internet
publication devoted to music
criticism and commentary, music
news, and artist interviews. Its
focus is on underground and
independent music, especially indie
rock. However, the range of musical
genres covered extends to
electronic, pop, hip hop, dance,
folk, jazz, metal, and experimental
music.
Pitchfork was created in
Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1995 by
Ryan Schreiber, then just out of
high school. Influenced by local
fanzines and college radio station
KUOM, Schreiber, who had no previous
writing experience, aimed to provide
the Internet with a regularly
updated resource for independent
music. At first bearing the name
Turntable, the site was originally
updated monthly with interviews and
reviews. In May 1996, the site moved
to the domain PitchforkMedia.com,
began publishing daily, and was
renamed "Pitchfork", a reference to
Tony Montana's tattoo in the 1983
film Scarface.
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