Pitchfork Music Festival 2013

Holy Sh*t!  Just realizing that this has been my 6th! Pitchfork Music Festival (I was thinking like 4th).  It honestly hasn't changed much over the years, but that's a great thing.  I love the size, I love the bands, I love the people… The only thing I'm sour about is they no longer have Cevapcici as a food vendor - seriously sour.  The other difference this year was that we biked the city - awesome idea.

As usual, this festival isn't about the headliners for me… Bjork, MIA, Belle & Sebastian, R. Kelly, meh… For me, this show was about the no-namers that I get to discover.  I like getting there early and doing all kinds of research & exploration to who will be performing.  The biggest and best discovery… BLOOD ORANGE!  I was also super excited to see Solange as well, but since Blood Orange produces her, that's not much of a surprise either.  Both were my best performances of the weekend.  You can read a very good (and very accurate) review from the New York Times below.  In the meantime, here are some pics, and a video from the Blood Orange performance (if only it could have captured the bass levels accurately).  

I already can't wait for next year.

Dancing Under the Sky - NYTimes.com
Taylor Glascock for The New York Times

Blood Orange was among the performers taking the stage on Sunday at the Pitchfork Music Festival at Union Park in Chicago. More Photos » By JON CARAMANICA Published: July 22, 2013 FACEBOOK TWITTER GOOGLE+ SAVE E-MAIL SHARE PRINT REPRINTS CHICAGO — Late Saturday afternoon, just as the stubborn, gummy heat was beginning to lift off Union Park here, the Canadian D.J.-producer Ryan Hemsworth took to the small stage in the southwest corner of the park and finally kicked this year’s edition of the Pitchfork Music Festival into gear. At one point, he played a remix of a new song by Kanye West, one of this city’s hometown heroes, and for the first time since early Friday afternoon, when the festival began under conditions of extreme heat, bodies got to moving. They didn’t stop for the rest of the weekend — not just because the weather remained mostly tolerable, but also because the second half of this festival served as a reminder of how dance music has become the most exciting emergent narrative in pop. This was true, not only in the mainstream but also in the connoisseur’s corners documented by Pitchfork, the forward-thinking and taste-shaping Web site that has sponsored this festival every year since 2006."

(Continued... Dancing Under the Sky - NYTimes.com)