Pitchfork Music Festival

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  Jon Hopkins

  Blue Stage, Union Park, Chicago IL, July 20

  PUBLISHED Jul 21, 2014

  Live, U.K. producer extraordinaire Jon Hopkins makes the musical equivalent of modernist architecture, beginning each song with bare bones...

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  Slowdive

  Green Stage, Union Park, Chicago IL, July 20

  PUBLISHED Jul 21, 2014

  Perhaps it was because the crowd was too young to care, but it seemed too easy to get close to the Green Stage late in the day for Slowdive...

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  Kendrick Lamar

  Green Stage, Union Park, Chicago IL, July 20

  PUBLISHED Jul 21, 2014

  Only after a year's passing has it become clear just how bona fide a classic Kendrick Lamar's Good Kid, m.A.A.d. city is. On Sunday night (...

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  tUnE-yArDs

  Red Stage, Union Park, Chicago IL, July 19

  PUBLISHED Jul 20, 2014

  "I'm going to shut up now so I can pack in as much music as possible," said tUnE-yArDs front woman Merrill Garbus. She had clearly learned...

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  Cloud Nothings

  Red Stage, Union Park, Chicago IL, July 19

  PUBLISHED Jul 20, 2014

  As the second day of the Pitchfork Music Festival kicked off, a significantly larger crowd formed around the Red Stage for its second act o...

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  FKA twigs

  Blue Stage, Union Park, Chicago IL, July 19

  PUBLISHED Jul 20, 2014

  As the headlining act of the blue stage, British artist FKA twigs has amassed quite the buzz throughout this past year, all without even re...

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  Wild Beasts

  Green Stage, Union Park, Chicago IL, July 19

  PUBLISHED Jul 20, 2014

  British art-rockers Wild Beasts know how to keep their cool, both musically and literally. Taking an early slot at the Pitchfork Music Fest...

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  The Haxan Cloak

  Blue Stage, Union Park, Chicago IL, July 18

  PUBLISHED Jul 19, 2014

  To see Haxan Cloak not just as actual people creating the otherworldly transmissions, but to be doing so in daylight, was jarring. As Bobby...