Pitchfork Music Festival 2008

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Pitchfork Music Festival 2008
DatesJuly 18–20, 2008
Location(s) Union Park, Chicago, United States
Website pitchforkmusicfestival.com

The Pitchfork Music Festival 2008 was held on July 18 to 20, 2008 at the Union Park, Chicago, United States. [1]

Contents

In that year, Pitchfork partnered up with promotion companies All Tomorrow's Parties to present a Don't Look Back stage, on which all of the bands performed one of their classic albums in its entirety on Friday. [2]

Lineup

Artists listed from latest to earliest set times. [3]

Aluminum Stage
Friday, July 18Saturday, July 19Sunday, July 20
Public Enemy [lower-alpha 1] Animal Collective
The Hold Steady
Vampire Weekend
Fleet Foxes
Jay Reatard
Spoon
Spiritualized
The Dodos
The Apples in Stereo
Dirty Projectors
Connector Stage
Friday, July 18Saturday, July 19Sunday, July 20
Sebadoh [lower-alpha 2]
Mission of Burma [lower-alpha 3]
Jarvis Cocker
!!!
Dizzee Rascal
Caribou
Titus Andronicus
Dinosaur Jr.
M. Ward
Les Savy Fav
Boris
Times New Viking
Balance Stage
Saturday, July 19Sunday, July 20
No Age
Atlas Sound
Extra Golden
Elf Power
The Ruby Suns
Fuck Buttons
Icy Demons
A Hawk and a Hacksaw
Boban i Marko Marković Orkestar
Cut Copy
Bradford Cox/King Khan/Jay Reatard Impromptu Jam Session
Bon Iver
Ghostface Killah & Raekwon
Occidental Brothers Dance Band International
King Khan and the Shrines
HEALTH
High Places
Mahjongg

Notes

  1. Public Enemy performed a full set of their sophomore studio album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back . [4]
  2. Sebadoh performed a full set of their fourth studio album Bubble & Scrape . [5]
  3. Mission of Burma performed a full set of their debut studio album Vs. . [6]

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