I love the Pitchfork Music Festival. It’s my one opportunity per year to feel a little ahead of the curve when it comes to discovering new music. Attending the festival gives me bragging rights about getting the chance to see bands before they make it big. Pitchfork is also the most user friendly of all the music festivals. Its 30,000 capacity per day is much smaller than … [Read more...] about Song Of The Day – “Careers In Combat” by Parquet Courts
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Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “Bicycle” by Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Every year after the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago, I come home with a list of artists that I hadn’t heard before who were great to listen to on stage. After further investigation some of them have released great records that had fallen under my radar, others, not so much. Some of the acts I first heard at Pitchfork include Fleet Foxes, Dodos, tUnE-yArDs and Battles, all … [Read more...] about Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “Bicycle” by Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “The Nights Of Wine And Roses” by Japandroids
Looking back at the 2012 Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago, it was full of outstanding new music mostly performed by artists I had never heard of. Clearly, that is what makes Pitchfork one of the coolest festivals on the planet. One of the standouts was Canada’s Japandroids, a Husker Du-ish duo consisting of Brian King on guitar and David Prowse on drums who steamrollered all … [Read more...] about Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “The Nights Of Wine And Roses” by Japandroids
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “It’s Real” by Real Estate – Pitchfork Recap Day 3
Day three of the 2012 Pitchfork Music Festival was one for musical grazing – going from stage to stage to happen upon whomever is performing. If the music is good, you stay…if it isn’t; it’s on to the next stage. Since Union Park is rather smallish and the body count of 20,000 people per day is miniscule, particularly in comparison to Lollapalooza’s 90,000 per day, Pitchfork is … [Read more...] about Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “It’s Real” by Real Estate – Pitchfork Recap Day 3
Pitchfork Music Festival 2014 – Day 2 Review by Eric Berman
Pitchfork Music Festival – Day 2 Review by Eric Berman The second day of Chicago’s Pitchfork Music Festival was all about the ladies with stunning performances by St. Vincent (aka Annie Clark) whose theatrical set leaned heavily on her latest self-titled album that came out late last year and is better than any other record that I’ve heard this year. Vincent played guitar … [Read more...] about Pitchfork Music Festival 2014 – Day 2 Review by Eric Berman