As is tradition, I’m very pleased to welcome you to yet another year of Pitchfork Music Festival coverage! Once again there will be a full week’s worth of focus on Chicago’s premiere boutique music festival, complete with day-by-day previews, recaps throughout the weekend, and plenty of photos so you can see some of the action too. It’s extremely comprehensive, so if you’re planning to attend or just wish you could, I hope you’ll keep a close eye on the site to learn more about the lineup, who you need to see, as well as reports straight from the festival grounds.
We begin with an audio introduction to all the artists performing at this year’s fest. Those familiar with Pitchfork know they carefully curate the lineup every year to highlight important, often up-and-coming acts. That inevitably leads to a fair amount of obscure names you might not recognize. For example, you may be wondering, “Who is Jlin? What kind of music does he or she or they make?” Well, hopefully this post answers those questions with relative ease.
After the jump, you’ll find a full list of every artist performing at this weekend’s Pitchfork Music Festival, complete with links to their website or Facebook or Tumblr or Bandcamp or whatever their primary web presence might be. You’ll also find links to stream two songs on YouTube or Soundcloud from each one, so you can get a basic idea of what they happen to sound like. Artists are grouped by the day they are performing and arranged in alphabetical order. If you prefer to stream your music using Spotify, you can find a full playlist at the very bottom of this post, also featuring two songs from every artist on the lineup. Those are grouped in order by day and set time.
Really what I’m saying is, no matter your audio preferences, there should be a format here that will give you access to the music, which is of course the most important part of this whole festival equation. So sit back and get familiar before spending the weekend in Union Park, so you can go in with a head full of knowledge and impress your friends.
Check out the preview guides for Friday, Saturday and Sunday!
FRIDAY
Beach House [Website]
Sparks
One Thing
Broken Social Scene [Website]
Cause=Time
World Sick
Carly Rae Jepsen [Website]
Run Away With Me
I Really Like You
Car Seat Headrest [Bandcamp]
Vincent
Fill in the Blank
Julia Holter [Website]
Feel You
Sea Calls Me Home
Mick Jenkins [Website]
The Artful Dodger
Your Love
Moses Sumney [Website]
Everlasting Sigh
Seeds
The Range [Website]
Florida
Five Four
Shamir [Tumblr]
On the Regular
Call It Off
Twin Peaks [Website]
Walk to the One You Love
I Found A New Way
Whitney [Website]
No Woman
Golden Days
SATURDAY
Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals [Website]
The Waters (ft. BJ the Chicago Kid)
Silicon Valley
BJ the Chicago Kid [Website]
The New Cupid (ft. Kendrick Lamar)
Love Inside
Blood Orange [Website]
Augustine
Chamakay
Brian Wilson [Website]
God Only Knows
Wouldn’t It Be Nice
Circuit Des Yeux [Bandcamp]
Fantasize the Scene
Lithonia
Digable Planets
Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)
Where I’m From
Girl Band [Website]
In Plastic
Paul
Holly Herndon [Website]
Interference
Morning Sun
Jenny Hval [Website]
Female Vampire
That Battle Is Over
Jlin [Facebook]
Unknown Tongues
Untitled
Kevin Morby [Website]
I Have Been to the Mountain
Destroyer
Martin Courtney [Website]
Airport Bar
Northern Highway
Royal Headache [Website]
High
Another World
RP Boo [Bandcamp]
RP Boo – RP Technic
Bangin’ on King Drive
Savages [Website]
The Answer
Adore
Sufjan Stevens [Website]
Should Have Known Better
No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross
Super Furry Animals [Website]
Lazer Beam
BingBong
SUNDAY
Empress Of [Website]
Standard
How Do You Do It
FKA Twigs [Facebook]
Glass & Patron
Pendulum
Holy Ghost! [Website]
Bridge & Tunnel
Crime Cutz
Homme [Website]
Fingerprints
Furniture
The Hotelier [Tumblr]
Soft Animal
Piano Player
Jeremih [Website]
Don’t Tell ‘Em (ft. YG)
oui
Kamasi Washington [Website]
Re Run Home
Miss Understanding
LUH. [Website]
I&I
Beneath the Concrete
NAO [Facebook]
Bad Blood
Girlfriend
Neon Indian [Website]
Annie
Slumlord
Oneohtrix Point Never [Website]
Ezra
Rush
Porches [Bandcamp]
Car
Be Apart
Sun Ra Arkestra [Website]
Face the Music / Space is the Place
Retrospekt
Thundercat [Tumblr]
Them Changes
Oh Sheit It’s X
Woods [Website]
Sun City Creeps
Morning Light