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Another Pitchfork Music Festival is in the books. So how did it stack up against previous years? Well, not so good, actually. It was an unbalanced mix of downers and highlights and we were there to cover it all. Before we start sharing the fan stories from this year’s festival, here’s the full review that [...]
Editorial Note: Article first published as Pitchfork Festival 2011 Day Two: Fleet Foxes, DJ Shadow, No Age Rock the Masses on Blogcritics. From the first chest-rattling and thumping beats to the constant wave of crowd-surfers floating above the heads of their fellow concertgoers, it was obvious during Pitchfork Festival Day 2 that live music is [...]
What do you expect to feel and experience at a concert? During this episode of Live Fix Radio we’ll answer that question as we explore the Top 5 Expectations of the live music xperience. It’s also time for Pitchfork Music Festival 2011 this weekend in Chicago, so we’ll share our own high expectations, Top [...]
One of the highlights of our summer music festival adventures is heading out to discover new bands and and hang out with fellow live music fans at Pitchfork Music Festival. So to get you ready for the show, here’s a preview I wrote for Blogcritics, plus a few extra goodies. And be sure to [...]
It’s been fun announcing and exploring the Coachella and Sasquatch festival lineups. It’s kind of a tease, though, since we’re still stuck in winter, snow, ice and slush mode here in Chicago. But nonetheless, next week tickets for the 2011 Pitchfork Music Festival go on sale. Here’s the initial low-down.
Continuing our exploration into iphone and android mobile apps and live music, I wanted to share with you some of the experiments I’ve been doing on my Droid with one of Layar’s augmented reality apps. Now, let’s see how you can use Layar’s Tweeps Around 3D to enhance your next concert experience.
While we were at this year’s Pitchfork Music Festival we had the pleasure of talking with non-profit organization Rock For Kids about what inspires them to give children the opportunity to have their lives forever changed by learning how to play music and rock live in concert.
So was the Pitchfork Music Festival a successful three days of indie-rock and hipster utopia? Did it send us reeling? Did the experience cause fans to have any sensual after-rock effects from all the sun-drenched melodic mayhem? Did the fans conquer the festival and leave with their live music-obsessed souls soaked in pleasure or pain? [...]
We came. We saw. We conquered. We stormed into Day Two of Pitchfork Musical festival armed with sunblock, just enough sleep and the ability to transform human sweat in to drinking water. Well, maybe, we didn’t have that last superhero ability in our arsenal, but we did drink enough of the free samples of Amp [...]
The first day of Pitchfork Music Festival 2010 wasn’t off the charts but it wasn’t a complete letdown either. It was somewhere in the middle. And the top picks for best showings came from Swedish electro-rocker Robyn, Chicago-loving Broken Social Scene and non-Float On playing Modest Mouse. All of it making up the nexus of [...]
It’s about that time of year when we head to Union Park in Chicago to submerge ourselves in three days of live music curated by the musical tastemakers at Pitchfork.com. The Pitchfork Music Festival starts today and this year just might be one of the best lineups they’ve had in their five year history.
Time is winding down for your chance to bid on Pitchfork Festival and Tom Petty tickets. So read on my fellow concert fans to see how you can get a piece of the action and scoop up a special Metro Live compilation and more to help out the kids.
Halfway through the summer Pitchfork Music Festival gave me the chance to experience many of my favorite bands in a live setting for the first time. Over the course of three days, some left my jaw on the ground while others left me shaking my head in disappointing disarray. Not so with the Flaming Lips. [...]
