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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
