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Pitchfork's 2009 Music Festival Lineup Announced

by Jarrett Martineau | March 6, 2009 at 11:50 am

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Venerable alt-music weblog and indie-critic/album review institution Pitchfork have announced the dates and initial lineup for the 2009 edition of their annual Pitchfork Music Festival.

This year's fest will be held in Chicago from July 17-19, 2009.

The initial lineup heralds the return of throwback artists including Built to Spill, Yo La Tengo, Tortoise and the first Jesus Lizard show in a decade — alongside newer artists such as The National, Vivian Girls, Grizzly Bear, and The Walkmen.

One unique twist on the conventional music fest format, is that Pitchfork's Friday night will be a series of crowdsourced song sets determined by fans. Ticket holders will be able to vote on the songs from each band they would like to hear and, according to Pitchfork, "the bands will tailor their set lists accordingly".

More artists will be announced in the coming weeks.

Friday, July 17

Built to Spill
The Jesus Lizard
Yo La Tengo
Tortoise

Saturday, July 18

The National
Pharoahe Monch
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
+ many more!

Sunday, July 19

Grizzly Bear
The Walkmen
Vivian Girls

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sara star

at 12:04 on March 6th, 2009

Sounds like Woodstock.

nadalina

at 16:07 on March 6th, 2009

Built to Spill played a great concert in Stavanger, Norway October 2008:)

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ProDelgado

at 03:23 on March 7th, 2009

Built to Spill live never cease to amaze me.

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FatherMcGruder

at 18:52 on March 8th, 2009

This photo is from when Built to Spill appeared with the Meat Puppets and Dinosaur Jr. at Terminal 5 in New York City. Their set included Perfect From Now On in its entirety, as well as a few songs from the following album, Keep it Like a Secret. The show concluded with members from each of the bands participating in a rambunctious, instrument-trading, poetry-reading, guitar-strap-strangling jam-fest.

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openmusicdoors (not verified)

at 00:23 on April 17th, 2009

I always love music concerts and festivals because music is my all time favorite. Always keen to wait and search for new music festivals and try never to miss the chance to enjoy and have such a great experience.

pedal_king

at 15:14 on June 5th, 2009

I am from New Orleans and we have so many different concerts and festivals here it is so much fun. I love music so much too! New orleans is crazy though - not katrina crazy but its different than you normal festival hehe.

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