Friday, April 08, 2005

OH MY GOD.

From Pitchfork:

First Acts Revealed for Pitchfork's Intonation Festival

As previously reported, Pitchfork is curating the first annual Intonation Music Festival in Chicago. It will be held on Saturday, July 16 and Sunday, July 17, at Pulaski Park. The event will feature up to 24 acts, including a DJ tent courtesy of Biz3. We are proud to announce the initial group of artists will be:

Confirmed artists:
The Decemberists
The Fiery Furnaces
Will Oldham (special DJ set)
Broken Social Scene
The Go! Team
Four Tet
Magnolia Electric Co.
The Wrens
A.C. Newman
The M's

The gates will open at noon each day, and there will be no advance tickets (which means no dealing with the evils of Ticketmaster or scalpers). Admission will be $10 at the door and certain proceeds will go to benefit the Chicago Park District's after-school music programs.

I think this pretty much proves the kind of pull Pitchfork now has in the industry that they can get the caliber of bands they are getting for a measly $10 for a freakin' after-school music program benefit.

I'll see Pulaski Park for the first time tomorrow, but I hope it is big enough to support all of this. I don't want to have to line up at like, 8 am just to be turned away at the "gate."

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