Category: Festivals
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Day 2 Dispatch: Music, Moments, and Memories at Pitchfork Festival
@colekincart Wake up at 9. Jump in Lake Michigan by 10. I’m ready to start my Saturday. Download a picture of the lineup and plan an initial game plan. Bananas and bacon are enough to tide me over for now. Found a picture online of Jai Paul’s setlist during downtime. Needto study this later. Need…
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Pitchfork Fest 2024 Day 1 Recap: A Seamless Start with a Stellar Lineup
@colekincart Welcome to this year’s Pitchfork Festival coverage! This weekend couldn’t have kicked off any better as my high school friend Mason came to visit and joined me for the festivities. Due to his flight being hit by the storm of outages the night prior, we opted for a slow start, filling up on gyros…
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Pitchfork Fest 2024: Our Picks and What You Need to Know
@colekincart Pitchfork Festival is so back…and set to take over Douglas Park from July 19th-21st! We’re stoked to be covering this year’s event and capturing some great moments along the way. It’s always a blast seeing how Pitchfork highlights incredible artists while celebrating the unique vibe of our city. At Pitchfork Fest, there’s always a…
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Pitchfork Music Festival 2023, A Review of All Three Days
@sasharodriguez Hosted in Union Park for the past seventeen years, Pitchfork Music Festival returns and brings in many talented artists to Chicago. This year’s line-up features The Smile, Bon Iver, Kelela, and many more artists spread across the three color coordinated stages across the park. Simply put, Pitchfork brings out the very odd and very…
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Pitchfork Music Festival 2021
@mantha.maee Pitchfork Music Festival has a sense of dualism that fits in a way I never would have expected. You have the quintessential midwest hospitality with cicadas screeching, ice cold lemonade shandys, and indie boys. Then you have the head banging-mosh pitting-Sear’s Towering-helicopter droning-urban grunge. The music has the same sense of dualism, with vibey…
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Pitchfork Festival 2019
If you haven’t checked out our pre-Pitchfork prep coverage, you can check that out here. Day 1 MIKE “Thanks CTA!” Narkis: MIKE was a great way to kick off the festival, even though it was unbearably hot at the festival. MIKE commanded the crowd, playing mostly from his albums War in My Pen…
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Pitchfork Fest 2019 Prep Playlists
This year, our festival attendees will be Narkis (@narkisanthony) and Ellen(@ellenmphillips). Here are their Pitchfork prep playlists: Narkis: My Pitchfork Fest playlist this year is really just a collection of my most anticipated artists at the fest, and what I believe to be a couple of their standout tracks. My playlist is somewhat skewed to…
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Riot Fest 2018
By Narkis Anthony Garcia III (@narkisanthony) Day 1: Arrived at around 4:00 to catch a little bit of Sum 41 before The Front Bottoms. Sum 41: Unlike his appearance, frontman Deryck Whibley’s voice hasn’t changed much at all. I didn’t get to stay too long but they definitely drew one of the biggest crowds I…
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Pre-Pitchfork Fest 2018 Prep
This year, our festival attendees will be Sid (@fflowerdogg) and Mike (@mikedmachesky). Here are their pre-fest playlist: Mike:“The playlist I have created here reflects the acts that i am personally most excited to see this weekend. Taking up a decent chunk of the list are tracks by Courtney Barnett and Fleet Foxes, two contrasting indie/alternative…
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Lollapalooza, August 3-6th 2017
Review by Rob Waite and Derek Jones, hosts of Da’ Booth, airing weekly on Sunday from 2 pm-5 pm on WIIT. Lollapalooza came in with a BANG! And left a lot of people wet for more after the first day. As the lines staggered in there were threats of storms being sent out, but this wasn’t…
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Andrew Bird, Esperanza Spalding @ Ravinia Festival, 7/23/17
Andrew Bird is a popular violinist, singer-songwriter, guitarist, glockenspielist, expert whistler, and, perhaps more importantly to some, a son of Chicago and its prominent folk-indie music scene. His critically acclaimed solo career has spanned over 20 years with 12 studio albums and several other live and compilation recordings. This is, of course, in addition to…
