The full lineup for this year’s Pitchfork Music Festival came out this morning. Joining previously announced headliners LCD Soundsystem, A Tribe Called Quest, and Solange are alt-rock icon PJ Harvey, west-coast rap phenom Kamaiyah, Australian sample masters the Avalanches, and D.C. postpunks Priests, among dozens of others. A handful of the returning acts (Danny Brown, Angel Olsen, Dirty Projectors) might suggest that the festival’s taste in contemporary “indie” music ossified a few years ago, but that’d be reading too much into too little—Pitchfork also continues to step outside its comfort zone, making booking decisions that don’t slavishly toe the line about what’s supposedly hip on the summer festival circuit. This year those choices include underground punk stalwart Jeff Rosenstock, George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, and 90s emo touchstones American Football—and they’re just a sliver of what makes Pitchfork one of the most interesting multiday music gatherings going.
The full daily lineups below include links to Reader coverage of most of the acts:
