Photo by Laurie Fanelli
Pitchfork has officially announced the lineup for its 2018 festival rendition, offering fans of live music an eclectic spread of genre, style and sounds. Among those performing at the Union Park-based fest are Ms. Lauryn Hill, The War on Drugs and Pitchfork veteran Blood Orange.
Joining the above-mentioned trio of acts at this year’s Pitchfork Music Festival are Tame Impala, Fleet Foxes, Courtney Barnett, Chaka Khan, Raphael Saadiq, Earl Sweatshirt, DRAM, Japandroids, Mount Kimbie and dozens more. Along with announcing the complete lineup, festival organizers have also revealed the daily lineups for this year’s fest, which show the aforementioned Tame Impala headlining Friday, Fleet Foxes topping Saturday and Hill closing out the festival on Sunday night.
Pitchfork mesmerized attendees at last year’s festival with performances by PJ Harvey, Thurston Moore, George Clinton and the Parliament Funkadelic, A Tribe Called Quest and LCD Soundsystem.
Pitchfork 2018 goes down July 20-22 at Chicago’s Union Park. For more information and to pick up tickets, visit the official Pitchfork Music Festival website.
Pitchfork Music Festival 2018 Lineup
Friday July 20
Tame Impala
Courtney Barnett
Mount Kimbie
Big Thief
Earl Sweatshirt
Syd
Julien Baker
Saba
Open Mike Eagle
Julie Byrne
Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society
Lucy Dacus
Melkbelly
The Curls
Saturday July 21
Fleet Foxes
The War on Drugs
Blood Orange
Raphael Saadiq
This Is Not This Heat
Moses Sumney
Kelela
Girlpool
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
Circuit des Yeux
Nilüfer Yanya
Zola Jesus
berhana
Paul Cherry
Sunday July 22
Ms. Lauryn Hill (The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill 20th Anniversary Performance)
Chaka Khan
DRAM
Noname
Japandroids
(Sandy) Alex G
Alex Cameron
Smino
Japanese Breakfast
Kelly Lee Owens
Ravyn Lenae
Kweku Collins
Irreversible Entanglements
Nnamdi Ogbonnaya
