PItchfork Music Festival - Preliminary Lineup

The fourth annual Pitchfork Music Festival goes down July 17-19 at Chicago's Union Park. Tickets go on sale March 13th. This year marks a small change in format, as Friday night's performances will be "Write the Night: Set Lists by Request". When you purchase your ticket you'll be given a link to vote for which songs you'd like to hear the band's play. The idea of an all-request Yo La Tengo show makes me giddy.

Here is the initial lineup, with many more to be announced soon.

Friday - "Write the Night: Set Lists by Request"
Built to Spill
The Jesus Lizard
Yo La Tengo
Tortoise

Saturday
The National
Pharoahe Monch
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

Sunday
Grizzly Bear
The Walkmen
Vivian Girls

What a week!

Clearly it's a huge week for music in NYC, with both THE ARCADE FIRE and BJORK in town for a cavalcade of sold-out shows. Also playing (mostly sold-out shows) this week are LCD SOUNDSYSTEM, YACHT, AIR, TV ON THE RADIO, AMY WINEHOUSE, SPANK ROCK, BLONDE REDHEAD, PATRICK WOLF, ALBERT HAMMOND JR. and THE POLYPHONIC SPREE! In addition, both THE BRAVERY and YEAH YEAH YEAHS are playing multiple free shows today.

The week got off to a rousing start last night at the BEIRUT/FINAL FANTASY show at The Bowery Ballroom when members of The Arcade Fire joined in on Beirut's encore. SUFJAN STEVENS and members of GRIZZLY BEAR and THE NATIONAL were in attendance as well. Too bad I'm going tonight - it will be hard to match last night's extravaganza. But who knows? Maybe BJORK and AMY WINEHOUSE will pop in for cameos. Or maybe not.