Pitchfork Music Festival 2008
By Chris • Updated Mar 12th, 2008 • Category: Chicago Events
Aside from Lollapalooza 2008, the local Pitchfork Music Festival 2008 will be one of the biggest music festivals in Chicago. Pitchfork Music Festival 2008 will take place July 18-20, 2008 at Chicago’s Union Park (1501 W. Randolph). Tickets for the 2008 Pitchfork Music Festival are priced at $30 for one day, $50 for a 2-Day pass, and $65 for a 3-Day pass.
| Pitchfork Music Festival 2008 | ||
| 3 Day Pass | $65 | Click Here to Buy |
| 2 Day Pass | $50 | Click Here to Buy |
| Friday Only | $30 | Click Here to Buy |
| Sunday Only | $30 | Click Here to Buy |
On Friday July 18, 2008, The Pitchfork Music Festival will host “Don’t Look Back”, Featuring Public Enemy Performing “It Takes a Nation of Millions To Hold us Back”. Not much information is yet available about this performance. (Click Here to Buy Friday Tickets)
The remainder of the 2008 Pitchfork Music Festival will feature the following artists:
Saturday July 19, 2008 (Click Here to Buy Saturday Tickets)
Animal Collective
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Vampire Weekend
Dizzee Rascal
No Age
Atlas Sound
Fleet Foxes
More to be announced
Sunday July 20, 2008 (Click Here to Buy Sunday Tickets)
Spiritualized
M. Ward
Boris
Extra Golden
El Guincho
More to be announced
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Pitchfork fest is a HUGE waste of time. Probably the worst planned out event you will ever go to. STAY AWAY!
Are you insane? At over 40 bands for $50 it’s the best bang for your buck as far as festivals go. And with the addition of the Don’t Look Back Series it’s only going to get better. With less people (probably about 15,000 at it’s peak on Saturday and Sunday) it’s smaller and easier to navigate than Lollapalooza. You probably don’t know any of the bands there. Sorry Matchbox 20 couldn’t make it.
It’s a nice little festival as far as bands and activities, but All Knowing is right – it is not organized very well. Last year, Professor Murder and Fugiya & Miyagi were on a small back lot where no one could move to dance (traffic passing by was almost louder than the bands). Also, one of the Junior Boys’ speakers kept going out ever 30 seconds to a minute and then coming back on – terrible! They were great, but sound was HORRIBLE! All in all, the festival was more frustrating than rewarding. I will spend a little more to see the samller stages at Lolla. Better sound systems, better crowds…
yeah matchbox twenty sucks
yea, pitchfork was awesome. yoko ono sucked… hard, but for the price, and the amount of good music it was excellent, really. sonic youth killed it.
This f****** festival has just about zero information other than s*** that happened over a year ago.
It sounds awesome but organize your s*** a bit better.
Yeah when Girl Talk played it was essentially one huge mess. That little stage on the side was awful because they played some really active, dance music there (Professor Murder, Girl Talk) but there was no room to move at all whatsoever.
Of course it is a little messy, but its a music festival! Its supposed to be! I’m sure good ol’ corporate megafestival Lolla is better organized but I prefer my experiences in life to be less mediated by giant corporations.
Pitchfork is excellent and the quality of acts is top notch. I’m just not interested in going to see the Red Hot Chili Peppers or Blues Traveler. I can turn on XRT if I want to hear them.
Just because the trains run on time doesn’t mean something is good.
Well, the weekend is the 18-19-20 judged by the fact that one of my ALL time fav. bands THE APPLES IN STEREO is booked to play pitchfork on the 20th!!!!!!! I may make the drive from Atl. to Chi. just to see them
Pitchfork IS unorganized and it’s extremely frustrating that there aren’t even posted dates for 2008 yet, but it’s still one of the best festivals in the midwest
May I say that last year might have had some unforeseen difficulties that didn’t befall previous years? I didn’t attend this past year, but the one before that was wonderfully done.
Pitchfork is a real hoot. Yeah, it’s bit disorganized, but I love the acts, the local color, the price is great. As to Lolla, that’s a hoot too, and, as far as I am concerned there is room in Chicago for both festivals. Both have different points of view, both are great.
However, since I am getting on in years, however, I do wish the sound at Pitchfork were a little better. Other than that criticism, Pitchfork rocks.
JMO
We have the first list of bands for the 2008 pitchfork fest. Enjoy
http://welistenforyou.blogspot.com/2008/03/pitchfork-fest-2008.html
It’s great that so many people still don’t “get” Yoko Ono. Tourists are the last to know. Avant Garde must be an alien concept. Performance art, historical Japanese musics forms, cutting edge jazz, peace and love before cake in bed. Thanks for making me feel special.
B.
Full guide to summer festivals here: http://detour-mag.com/assets/2008/05/15/the-detour-guide-to-summer-music-fests/
Pitchfork? Sounds like a bunch of farmers running around in circles.
Who are these bands?