Pitchfork Festival Webcast

July 11th, 2010

Grant Trimboli

This year’s Pitchfork Music Festival is right around the corner! The big throwdown takes over Chicago’s Union Park July 16-18. Didn’t buy tickets yet? Well, you’re in luck. Tickets for Friday are going fast, though you can still get them here. As for Saturday and Sunday, we’ve made a limited number of tickets available, but they will only be procurable on-site on Thursday, July 15. The box office will open at 11 a.m. Show up early; they won’t last.

But if you can’t make it down to Union Park, there’s an alternative. Once again, you’ll be able to watch the Pitchfork Music Festival as it happens through a live webcast that will run on the media page of the Festival website. Optimus, via its production arm ONE at Optimus, will serve as the official webcast production partner, in aspects of coordinating, shooting, and producing live video feeds of the performances.

In other Pitchfork Music Festival news, we’ve got info on food vendors and environmental initiatives below, as well as the schedule of performers.

Food Vendors

Several varied Chicago vendors will provide grandiose gustation ranging from vegan to meat, southwest BBQ to Eastern Asian cuisine, and everything in between, making this year’s festival food fare the best yet. This years vendors are: Robinson’s Ribs, Star of Siam, Bite Cafe, The Rice Table, Wishbone, Abbey Pub, Cevapcici, Bombay Station, Urb Garden, La Luce, Berghoff, Connie’s Pizza, Heineken, Chicago Diner, Whole Foods, and Temptation Ice Cream.

Environment/Sustainability

The Pitchfork Music Festival takes our responsibility to the environment seriously, and encourages our audience, performing artists, and PMF vendors to do the same. That’s why, to ensure the greenest festival possible, we’ve brought back the PMF Recycling store, where festival-goers can bring their plastic cups and bottles and exchange them for great festival swag. The Festival has also taken steps to use hybrid vehicles, provided by ZipCar, for PMF operations, and are generating all power for the event from Biodiesel fuel. A brief summary of some steps we’re taking to ensure that our environmental “footprint” is as small as possible can be seen here.

2010 Pitchfork Music Festival schedule:

a = Aluminum Stage, b = Balance Stage, c = Connector Stage

Friday July 16 (gates at 3 p.m.):

3:30 Sharon Van Etten (a)
4:00 The Tallest Man on Earth (c)
4:35 El-P (a)
5:30 Liars (c)
5:45 Hannibal Buress (b)
6:25 Robyn (a)
6:30 Wyatt Cenac (b)
7:15 Michael Showalter (b)
7:20 Broken Social Scene (c)
8:00 Eugene Mirman (b)
8:30 Modest Mouse (a)

Saturday July 17 (gates at 12 p.m.):

1:00 Free Energy (a)
1:00 Netherfriends (b)
1:45 Real Estate (c)
1:55 Sonny & the Sunsets (b)
2:30 Delorean (a)
2:50 Kurt Vile (b)
3:20 Titus Andronicus (c)
3:45 Dâm-Funk (b)
4:15 Raekwon (a)
4:45 Smith Westerns (b)
5:15 Blues Explosion (c)
5:45 WHY? (b)
6:15 Wolf Parade (a)
6:45 Bear in Heaven (b)
7:25 Panda Bear (c)
7:40 Freddie Gibbs (b)
8:30 LCD Soundsystem (a)

Sunday July 18 (gates at 12 p.m.):

1:00 Allá (a)
1:00 Cave (b)
1:45 Cass McCombs (c)
1:55 Best Coast (b)
2:30 Girls (a)
2:50 Washed Out (b)
3:20 Beach House (c)
3:45 Local Natives (b)
4:15 Lightning Bolt (a)
4:45 Surfer Blood (b)
5:15 St. Vincent (c)
5:45 Here We Go Magic (b)
6:15 Major Lazer (a)
6:45 Neon Indian (b)
7:25 Big Boi (c)
7:40 Sleigh Bells (b)
8:30 Pavement (a)