One day down, two left to go. The start of the 2016 Pitchfork Music Festival was plagued with a light rain shower, followed by gray clouds that seemed somewhat ominous for the rest of the day. Thankfully it was a largely dry day, and the music was sunny enough that the skies didn’t matter so much. I’ll have all kinds of photos and other goodies once the weekend wraps up, but in the meantime please join me after the jump for a brief recap of everything I saw and did on Friday.
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Sunday at Pitchfork Music Festival is set to be just about the sexiest day of any music festival ever. To quote Tracy Morgan, “Somebody’s gonna get pregnant!” The lineup is stacked with all kinds of R&B and freeform jazz that’s designed to put you in the mood for some lovin’. Not sure how perfectly that pairs with sun and 85 degree temperatures, but we’ll find out, right? At least things will be steamy one way or another. If you’ve been to the fest for two days already, the generally slower and more relaxed vibe on Sunday should be a nice change of pace. The slightly later start time than usual is an added benefit. Gates may open at noon, but the first music doesn’t start until 1:45, so sleep in an extra 90 minutes or at the very least stay off your feet for that period of time. As with the other two days though, there are some serious benefits to showing up early and catching those first bands of the day. Join me past the jump for the hour-by-hour breakdown of who’s playing when, and what artists you simply can’t miss.
Also, in case you missed them, here are the Preview Guides for Friday and Saturday as well as audio streams from every artist on the lineup.
Thanks for reading. If you’re headed to Pitchfork this weekend, I’ll see you in Union Park!
The 2016 Pitchfork Music Festival kicks off tomorrow afternoon, and this is one more reminder to keep an eye here on this site for full coverage. All the previews are up in case you’re going, and you’ll also be able to read daily recaps as the weekend progresses. Photos will be happening too. For every post related to this year’s festival, this link should take care of all your needs. Now then let’s get to the final Pick Your Poison of the week. Don’t miss downloads in this set from BOYO, Elysia Crampton, Tanners Pool and Yvonne McDonnell. In the Soundcloud section after the jump, stream songs from Beach Slang, Flock of Dimes, Fraternal Twin, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Kady Rain, Katie Dey, Mothers, PAPA, Preoccupations, Roosevelt, Shy Girls and Ultimate Painting.
Arandel – Section 7 (Live Version)
Elysia Crampton – Flora’s Theme
Have you been keeping an eye on Pitchfork Music Festival Week? We’re in full preview mode right now in preparation for the weekend. If you’ve missed them, here are the guides for Friday and Saturday, along with audio streams for every single artist on the lineup. The Sunday preview guide goes up tomorrow, followed by recaps of the weekend. I hope you’ll follow along! Of course if you’re just here for the free downloads and Soundcloud streams, there’s always a new edition of Pick Your Poison to keep you entertained. Don’t miss tracks in this set from Craig Williams, J Hacha De Zola, Justice, Spirit City and Victoria Monet (ft. Ariana Grande). In the Soundcloud section after the jump, stream songs from Alex Rose, Allie X, Body Language, Diners, Factory Floor, Golden Suits, Jamila Woods (ft. Chance the Rapper), Madeira, Promises Ltd., Warehouse and much more!
Jordan Dean Riddle – Sun Soaked
Spirit City – We’re All Insane
Let me use today’s introduction to offer a few festival tips and tricks to help you survive the weekend at Pitchfork Music Festival. Six years of coverage has helped me get this down to a science, so if you follow my lead I guarantee everything’s gonna turn out great for you (you know, within reason). First, the general outdoor festival stuff. Stay hydrated. Drink at least 3-4 full bottles of water each day. That is a minimum. I know it’s tempting to have a few beers, and you realistically still can, just don’t make that the only liquid you drink all day. You’ll sweat tons in the 80+ degree heat and will be on your feet pretty much all day, so those fluids need to be replenished unless you want to wind up in the medical tent. Next up, sunscreen and bug spray. Use both liberally. If you get sunburned on Friday, the rest of the weekend will be painful. You also don’t want to scratch a bunch of bug bites either, so protect yourself.
Don’t overexert yourself. There’s a temptation to go hard and try to see just about every band. It’s possible too! Union Park isn’t that big, and with three stages you won’t need to do that much walking. Just remember to take breaks and sit down from time to time. Eat food – probably more than you’d otherwise have – to maintan energy while you burn calories. Explore! There’s plenty of fun things to do, including the CHIRP Record Fair, the Flatstock poster sale, Book Fort, Craft Fair and Kids Area. A bunch of brands have tents/booths where free food and merch is given away. Lifeway frozen kefir bars are typically being given away near the basketball court, so that’s a nice cool treat on a warm day. You can probably screen print a t-shirt for free too, if that’s an interest. If you’ve got some down time or don’t like any of the artists performing, wandering around the festival grounds can make for a great time.
So that’s about all I’ve got in terms of tips. Well one more – be good to others! In my experience, everyone at Pitchfork is very chilled out and friendly, so treat them in kind. Join me past the jump for an in-depth, hour-by-hour look at the schedule for Saturday. There’s plenty of great stuff to recommend.
Also, in case you missed them, here are the preview guides Friday and Sunday as well as audio streams from every artist on the lineup.
So you’re planning to attend the 2016 Pitchfork Music Festival. Congratulations! You have made a very wise choice. It promises to be a great time in a great city with a great collection of artists. Speaking of those artists, one of the challenges with any music festival is looking over the schedule and trying to figure out who to see when. In the cases where you only like one artist performing at a particular time, the choice is easy. In the cases where you like two artists performing at the same time, the conflict can be tragic. But what about the artists you’re not familiar with? There’s always at least a few at any large festival, and even the most avid music fan has some knowledge gaps. The great news is that it’s easy to learn, and maybe just a little easier to make a crucial decision about a conflict, if you’ve got some outside help. Welcome to the first of three installments of the 2016 Pitchfork Music Festival Preview Guide! Here you can find out information about every artist on the lineup, and see recommendations on who you should be seeing at any particular time. So if you wouldn’t mind, please join me after the jump to check out the comprehensive guide to who’s performing on Friday. Let’s go!
Check out the preview guides for Saturday and Sunday as well as audio streams for every artist on the lineup.
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!
Back in action for yet another edition of Pick Your Poison. I feel like I should also mention it’s Pitchfork Music Festival week here on the site, and if you’re planning to attend or maybe just curious about what will be going down in Union Park here in Chicago this weekend, be sure to check out all the comprehensive coverage. There will be previews, recaps and photos to come, so please keep an eye out! If you’re looking for some new music, allow me to recommend downloads below from Hawker M. James, People and Stars, Ryan Hemsworth (ft. Keaton Henson & Mitski) and Tonedeff. In the Soundcloud section after the jump, stream songs from Cole M.G.N., EZTV (ft. Jenny Lewis), Joe Budden, MYZICA, Pixies, Robert Pollard, Russian Circles, Ryley Walker, Sibling, Topaz Jones, Twist and Yohuna.
Hawker M. James – Love Like A Hurricane
Mikie Mayo – Lost in West Philly
People and Stars – You’re Not Alone
Que Billah – Survive (ft. Kora Green)
Ryan Hemsworth – Wait (ft. Keaton Henson & Mitski)
We’re halfway through 2016, so now’s as good of a time as any to take a moment for reflection before we march onward through the rest of the year. It’s been a wild six months, filled with surprise and high profile releases from some of music’s most prolific artists, not to mention quite a few underground successes as well. There’s probably no way you’ve heard all the great stuff, which is why I wanted to share this Spotify playlist filled with all of my favorites. If it seems like 69 songs is an intentional joke, I can assure you the number is 100% arbitrary. There’s nothing particularly official about this, nor are there rankings, simply a collection of tracks released between January and the end of June that you should probably spend some time with. They’re ordered in a way that I think flows best, in an effort to optimize listenability. It’s worth noting that this also makes a great playlist for your summer BBQ, as it’s packed to the gills with uptempo brilliance. Please enjoy and share!
We’re back in business after an extended holiday weekend. If you’re American, I hope you enjoyed your 4th of July. Mine was spent watching fireworks on TV with a bowl of ice cream. Delicious, and perfectly relaxing. One quick thing to note, while I’ve got you here – in honor of Faronheit’s 10th anniversary, the site has been redesigned! It still doesn’t have a lot of bells and whistles, but I think this new look is a lot cleaner and more modern. It’s been maybe five or six years since things have been overhauled to this magnitude, so this was long overdue. Hope you enjoy it! Also hope you enjoy today’s Pick Your Poison, which features some great downloads from Giorgio Moroser, The Holy, Lennart Richter and Sticky Fingers. In the Soundcloud section after the jump, stream songs from Carl Broemel, The Chills, Joe Budden, Me2 (ft. Kid Sister), Motel Radio, Supa Bwe (ft. Chance the Rapper), Tim Presley, Tink, Towkio and more!
Today officially marks ten years since the launch of Faronheit. There will be many words and some special anniversary stuff happening in the next week or so, but I just wanted to get that formal announcement out of the way right here and now. The first four years of the site were a bit insane, to the point where music blogs were just beginning to take off and record labels became extremely litigious about free music being downloaded across every corner of the internet. It was enough to get the old version of the site shut down, and those four years of archives erased. Well, at the very least no longer active through traditional search engines. A little help from the Wayback Machine provides ample archival evidence of the magic that was the mid-to-late ’00s Blogspot boom. Anyways, the site getting shut down then sparked the move over to this current dot com location, which in my opinion has been the best thing for it. Still going strong after all these years, and still offering quality, legal music for streaming and download on a regular basis. Speaking of which, here’s today’s edition of Pick Your Poison, which features tracks from Khary, Picnic Lightning, The Qualia and Thelonious Martin (ft. Joey Purp). In the Soundcloud section after the jump, stream songs from Black Dice, Brian Fresco (ft. Chance the Rapper & Blue Hawaii), Cass McCombs, DENA, DJ Esco (ft. Future), Hockey Dad, Ice Choir, LANY, Negative Gemini, Pill, Public Access T.V. and more! Happy 10 years! Thanks for reading! Let’s do 10 more?!
Picnic Lightning – American Ruin
The Qualia – Die in Slow Motion
Sketch McGuiney – Ferris Bueller (ft. DJ Ragz)
Tears For Fears – Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Rhythm Scholar Remix)
Since I like to keep you at least somewhat updated on the big Chicago music festivals happening, there’s some fresh news from the Riot Fest camp that’s worth mentioning. Specifically, they’ve added a few artists to the previously announced lineup. Specifically, The Flaming Lips, Sleater-Kinney, The Julie Ruin and Julian Marley (performing Bob Marley’s Exodus) will now all be there. This just makes an already solid lineup that much better. Get over to RiotFest.org for full details and to buy 1, 2 or 3-day passes. Now let’s take care of today’s Pick Your Poison. There’s some great downloads in this set from Callie Reiff & Ronaissance, Dengue Dengue Dengue, Rizzla and VATS. In the Soundcloud section after the jump, stream songs from Body of Light, Cymbals Eat Guitars, The Dear Hunter, Field Mouse (ft. Allison Crutchfield), Hoops, Katy Goodman & Greta Morgan (covering The Replacements), KAYE, Milemarker, Shura, Teeth & Tongue, Terror Jr and White Sea.
Callie Reiff & Ronaissance – Tin Machine
Few Dollars More – All the Way
Josh Sallee – Pressure (ft. Cassie Jo Craig)
Just got back from a few days down in Florida for a friend’s wedding, and am somehow feeling both refreshed and tired at the same time. My mind is at peace, but my body just wants to climb into bed. It’ll probably wear off in a day or two, but it’s kind of nice for now despite all the yawning. Let’s jump right in and start the week with another quality edition of Pick Your Poison, where you can find some fresh downloads from Allie & Ivy, Amy Blaschke, Conveyor and Lion Babe. In the Soundcloud section after the jump, stream songs from Fialta, iji, Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster, Max Jury, Mild High Club, NITE-FUNK, NOTS, Omni, Psychic Twin, Touche Amore and more!
Amy Blaschke – Running My Heart to You
Lion Babe – Still in Love (ft. Junglepussy)
Maps & His Mothball Fleet – Movies On The Lawn
Ritual Howls – Scatter the Scars
Get your Wednesday going with some quality tracks in this set from The Band Royale, DoublePlusGood, Matt Bennett, Outer Gods and Sannhet. In the Soundcloud section after the jump, stream songs from Colouring, Few Bits, Future Generations, The Game (ft. Jeremih), Great Good Fine Ok & Orla Gartland, The Hecks, Ian William Craig, Leagues, Owen, Rozes, Ryan Hemsworth and Towkio (ft. Joey Purp).
Ariana Delawari – Here Is My Love
The Band Royale – Lay Off, Man
DoublePlusGood – Take Me Dancing
LUXXURY – Black Magic Reaper (LUXXURY Edit)
Let’s jump right into the week with yet another collection of tracks in this thing we call Pick Your Poison. Enjoy downloads in this set from Harpooner, Liana Banks, Love At First Sound, Mincer Ray and Steel Cranes. In the Soundcloud section after the jump, stream songs from Adam Torres, Blonde Redhead, Boris, EDEN, JONES, The Legends (covering The Chainsmokers), Nite Jewel, Oxblood (ft. Korallreven), Stephen Steinbrink, The Tallest Man on Earth and Terry.
Helios Hussain – Rappers Are Stupid
Mincer Ray – Everything Is Green
Suddenly Sunshine – Till the End of Time (Frank Rabeyrolles Remix)
