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Pitchfork Music Festival 2011
:: Photo by Nate Smith
The big, startling revelation that I doddered out with, sun-baked and hungover, after a weekend at...
Aug 10, 2011
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Musicfest Northwest 2010
In most cases, Musicfest Northwest is as it’s always been: four-plus days of acts, of acts big and acts small,...
Sep 27, 2010
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Lady Gaga Versus the Arcade Fire
Lady Gaga was the only reason to have given, going into the weekend, a hint of a fuck about Lollapalooza;...
Aug 16, 2010
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I Made "Woo" Noises: My Third Year at the Pitchfork Music Festival
In one of the most miserable months, climate-wise (biblical deluges and their resulting mud baths, sweltering heat, etc.), in a...
Jul 29, 2010
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Freddie Gibbs
Bear in Heaven probably had some terrible shit yelled at them as they encroached on Freddie Gibbs’ set late on...
Jul 21, 2010
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CMG's Guide to Not Attending the Pitchfork Music Festival
Another vacation-less summer, another Pitchfork Music Festival without you in attendance. You: perhaps you’ve attended before; you know what BNM-ing...
Jul 16, 2010
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Heineken? Fucking Heineken?
This will be my fifth straight year going to the Pitchfork Music Festival. I missed that first, weird, Intonation-branded year,...
Jul 16, 2010
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CMG's Guide to the Pitchfork Music Festival
Another sweltering Chicago summer, another Pitchfork Music Festival. Like the airborne version of Ebola fictionalized in the 1994 film Outbreak,...
Jul 14, 2010