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Pitchfork: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:46:17 -0500

This was my second year attending Pitchfork Music Festival and a lot of things certainly improved, however others could stand to have been better.

I saw that the festival and some sponsors made an effort to be green this year. We had some seriously strange weather. I was disappointed by the bands I was excited about, and surprised by others. I even saw the executive producer of the whole festival get down and dirty to help pump out the watery mud that had accumulated overnight on the field.

This year I had full VIP access which came with many perks. My

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Pitchfork Sunday: Les Savy Fav and Cut Copy bring the energy

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:12:00 -0500

OK, so I might have been wrong yesterday when I said !!!'s lead singer Nic Offer could be the most entertaining frontman around. After witnessing my first Les Savy Fav show Sunday afternoon, I think Tim Harrington, the bald-headed, beer-bellied wild man who fronts this legendary punk band, takes the cake.

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Pitchfork Saturday: Animal Collective, !!!

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:11:45 -0500

I always have such high ambitions heading into festivals. I plan on maximizing my time and catching as many bands as possible. But for some reason, it never quite works out like that. Factor in the heat, the need for a little downtime, bathroom breaks, food and beer runs, and my day didn’t go quite as planned.

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Fork Fashion: Style You'll Eat Up With A Spoon

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 02:38:15 -0500

In my estimation, Pitchfork is the ultimate fashion show. It brings out all the alternatively-inclined, and they’re all dressed to impress. Or, um, not to impress per se… because no one actually thought about what they were going to wear, right? Or so Pitchfork-goers would have you think. The trick is to look insanely trendy, while still retaining the air of someone who threw on whatever happened to be lying on their floor—which would only be feasible if said floor fed directly into a vast whimsy pit chock full o’ quirky vintage threads.

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Even the Green Line Won't Stop Me From Seeing Flavor Flav

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:13:12 -0500

Pitchfork began yesterday with it's Don't Look Back, where bands pick one of their albums and play them the whole way through. The bands participating in the series this year were Mission of Burma (performing Vs.), Sebadoh (performing Bubble and Scrape) and Public Enemy (performing It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back).

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Forked: Blogging the 2008 Pitchfork Music Festival

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:25:31 -0500

Good afternoon, faithful readers, and welcome to the Citizen's Pitchfork blog!