Tyler the Creator Robert Pollard waltzed out, sporting a well-worn Ohio t-shirt, and asked the crowd, “Are you guys ready for some quality, professional rock ‘n’ roll?” The festival stages at Pitchfork increasingly seem designed to separate the professionals from the up-n-comers and ever more so from those not yet ready for prime-time. The sure-fire professionals: Guided by Voices, Neko Case, Superchunk, No Age, James Blake, Off!, Yuck, Kylesa, Deerhunter. That list represents the groups [...]
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Sun Airway It’ll be 2:00 in the afternoon on the side-stage, so I’m guessing we won’t have the benefit of witnessing their massive projections. I’m hoping they’ll find some other way to make the day special. Cold Cave Pundits wanna know: have they got anything like the charisma of their idols, or are they just throwing shade? G-Side Serious rap music is always interesting in the middle of the day, in a park. But these [...]