You ain’t got to go to Chicago for Pitchfork goodness.

Much as I love both Chicago and Pitchfork, it was not in my plans to fly up to Illinois and attend the three-day Pitchfork Music Festival. If it involves negotiating a bunch of sweaty crowds, enduring crappy sound, and walking around outside for hours, you can reliably count me out. But yesterday evening an [...]

The Pitchfork Festival – an overview.

Hi there. I’m posting for Conor tonight, here in Chicago, where it’s technically midnight so therefore Monday. I’m on a porch with Conor, Kilian, and our frequent commenter Ignatius. Why am I posting instead of Conor if we’re both here at the same time? Good question.

Anyway, I missed Saturday entirely, but of [...]

The Mousy Girl Scream Violence Violence

The pitchfork festival was a scream; it was a marathon of adrenaline fueled feel good music with pit-stops here and there to catch a well deserved acoustic guitar induced trance. Of Montreal isn’t Canadian and shouldn’t move to Canada but maybe they should move from Athens, Georgia to Athens, Greece, home of the epic. [...]