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 Pitchfork Festival updates

Posted by Loren on March 4, 2013

Pitchfork Festival updates
Pitchfork Festival updates

The annual Pitchfork Music Fetival in Chicago has announced more bands to play at the Jul 19-21 event at Union Park. Among the new bands announced are Swans, El-P, The Breeders, Killer Mike, ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Joanna Newsome, and more. The event previously announced such headliners as Bjork, R. Kelly, and Belle & Sebastian.

Over twenty more bands will be announced as the dates near. See below for more specific band and date of performance information for the eighth annual festival.

THE 2013 PITCHFORK MUSIC FESTIVAL LINEUP:

Friday

Björk

Joanna Newsom

Angel Olsen

Trash Talk

Saturday

Belle & Sebastian

The Breeders play Last Splash

Rustie

Swans

...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead

Mac DeMarco

Sunday

R. Kelly

Chairlift

TNGHT

Sky Ferreira

Killer Mike

El-P

Foxygen

Tree

Pitchfork Festival updates
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