Festival Guide: Pitchfork Music Festival, Chicago, IL

Date: July 17-19, 2009; $35-$60

Pitchfork Media's fourth annual self-titled festival will take over Chicago's Union Park with a multi-genre roster ranging from established artists ( The Flaming Lips , Built to Spill ) to emerging acts ( Grizzly Bear , Antlers.) The three-day music extravaganza includes a new feature this year dubbed "Write the Night," which allows fans to vote on certain bands' setlists on the festival website.

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Lineup (subject to change):


  • Built to Spill
  • The Jesus Lizard
  • Yo La Tengo
  • Tortoise
  • The National
  • Beirut
  • DOOM
  • Yeasayer
  • The Flaming Lips
  • Grizzly Bear
  • M83
  • Final Fantasy
  • The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
  • The Walkmen
  • The Thermals
  • Black Lips
  • F---ed Up
  • Plants and Animals
  • Cymbals Eat Guitars
  • Matt and Kim
  • Lindstrom
  • Wavves
  • Ponytail
  • Bowerbirds
  • The Duchess and The Duke
  • Antlers
  • Disappears
  • Pharoahe Monch
  • Blitzen Trapper
  • Frightened Rabbit
  • The Mae Shi
  • The Very Best
  • Mew
  • Vivian Girls
  • Japandroids
  • DJ/Rupture
  • Women
  • Killer Whales
  • Dianogah
  • Michael Columbia

Pitchfork Music Festival website

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