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Pitchfork Music Festival

music festival, Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Pitchfork Music Festival, annual summer rock festival, held in Chicago’s Union Park, that focuses primarily on independent artists from the alternative rock, electro-pop, and hip-hop genres. Pitchfork Media, a Chicago-based Internet publisher of music news and reviews, curated the Intonation Music Festival in 2005. The following year the company organized its own Pitchfork Music Festival. It was held over two days in July and attracted more than 36,000 fans to hear some 40 bands, including...

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