As you’ve heard, buffaBLOG will be traveling to Chicago in one week to cover Pitchfork Music Festival 2012. More than 40 of indie music’s biggest names will be performing on three different stages in Union Park on July 13-15, and if you’re planning on attending single day tickets are still available, but they are going fast! Even if you can’t make it there in person, Pitchfork will be streaming the entire weekend via their Youtube channel.
We are extremely excited for this, but with so many bands playing in only 3 days we obviously won’t be able to see them all. In arranging a proper itinerary, there are many decisions one must make as to what artists to see due to the fact that there will be 2-3 different groups playing at the same time on different stages. You can’t be in two places at once. Friday night, the first of the festival, brings up a pretty tough one: Feist is to play the green stage at 8:20, and at the same time Purity Ring will be taking the blue stage.
Decisions, decisions.
What we have here is your classic veteran artist vs. the up-and-comer. While we all know Leslie Feist began her career as a golden member of Broken Social Scene, she has blossomed as a solo artist over the last 8 years, releasing her grammy-nominated The Reminder in 2007, and her most recent LP Metals last september. Feist can be all over the place, playing low-key acoustic lullabies or rocking out with a full-on band, complete with soulful backup singers. Her honey-dipped vocals are front and center, lifting herself and her audience into outer space. This 2005 performance by the singer says it all:
On the other hand you have Purity Ring, a Canadian electro-indie duo, smothered in hype, but living up to their expectations insofar as live performances go. Corin Roddick and Megan James have already played both SXSW, NXNE, Fun Fun Fun Fest, and toured with indie giants Neon Indian and Dirty Projectors. They've received stellar reviews, especially due in part to their elaborately minimal setup complete with paper lamps and an electornic drum-machine type instrument anthropomorphized as a tree that Roddick built himself. Their future-pop styled tracks “Fineshrine” and “Belispeak” have both been featured on Pitchfork’s Best New Track segment, and are notable in how they combine Roddick's love of Southern hip-hop beats, and James' ethereal melodies and spine-bending lyricism. Their debut LP Shrines is due out July 24, and topped buffaBLOG's list of new releases to be excited for. As if I needed to tell you to keep an eye out for these guys.
For all of you who won't be able to make it out to Union Park this Friday, I have some very good news: Feist will be playing Canalside this coming Sunday for $10, and Purity Ring will be playing the Bug Jar in Rochester July 18, so grab tickets now! In the meantime cast your vote for who you think you would see at Pitchfork Festival below:
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