Pitchfork Music Festival 2024 Tour • Page 2

If they actually get Fiona Apple I'll be there, doesn't even matter who else is playing that day.

 

Only reason why I'd go.

That mock is weak otherwise.

 

This would be the usual weekend for Pitchfork, feel like it tips off Alanis.

 

Lineup out next week is my guess

 

I know she just got ousted, but the former CEO of Pitchfork was at an honor ceremony for Alanis.

 

Sad news, Ratboys aren’t playing this. I saw Julia perform tonight at Sleeping Village and I asked her straight up and she said no they will be on the west coast. They’re opening for a band at Salt Shed in May though that is being announced on Tuesday. (Don’t ask me who she didn’t say haha)

 

I don’t think this article was ever shared here: How Condé Nast bought and destroyed America's iconic music publication | Semafor

tl;dr - In recent meetings a Condé Nast employee (well specifically a senior vice president in charge of events) wanted to get Oasis and the White Stripes to headline (LOL) and in 2016 some Conde folks attended the festival and thought it wasn’t chic enough and also expressed that VIP was lacking so there was a push to expand VIP which pissed off performers who felt it was interfering with artist VIP.

“Condé has fulfilled some of the initial vision for Pitchfork’s consumer events business. Over the last several years, the publication has expanded into three new cities (London, Berlin, and Mexico City), and thrown other ticketed parties. The company has increased revenue from sponsorships of the festival, which has offset some softer ticket scans for several years at the festivals. But there has also been creative friction between Pitchfork and the parent company over the events. Pitchfork staff butted heads with Condé over attempts to further monetize the festival in a way that some felt eroded the brand. Condéhad pushed to make the festival experience more “luxury.” In 2016, a group of Condé sales people attended the festival in Chicago. Some complained afterwards that it was “not chic enough.” Condé pushed to build out Pitchfork’s VIP ticket experience for the festivals, an easy new potential source of revenue, prompting grumbling within Pitchfork about whether that would interfere with the actual VIP areas the publication already had for artists. In a recent meeting, one Condé senior vice president in charge of events made the outlandish suggestion that Pitchfork could juice ticket sales by reuniting Oasis or the White Stripes.”

 

LMAO this is fucking rich. I love this festival because it's one of the only ones without an absurd VIP area and it's entirely not needed.

The monetization part is interesting because those sponsorships have been seriously increasing over the years.

 

If we believe the user on Inforoo leaking artists, Crumb, Model/Acrtiz, and Brittany Howard are playing this year. This is the same user who leaked Alanis is playing. Brittany Howard just did two shows at Thalia so she’ll probably be third on her day assuming she is playing.

 

Brittany Howard + a solid headliner would prob get me there. Missed her Thalia Hall shows cus they were a little pricy, but I'm hoping to catch her this year.

 

Claire Rousay

 

claire would be cool, she is playing Sleeping Village in May but that shouldn't like disqualify her

 

Guess I should walk my ass down the block to go to that show.

 

Huh, don't think they've done a pre-sale recently.

Also pretty sure I've never gotten a single text from them having been signed up for some time now.

 

Need to see the lineup for this so I can make a decision about Pitchfork vs The Wonder Years at Sad Summer.

 

Oh damn thanks for pointing this out before I rushed into buying a Sad Summer ticket

 

I’m pretty sure the two events conflicted last year as well haha but I imagine there isn’t much overlaps

 

I'm not stressing about Sad Summer selling out, at least.

It's good counterprogramming. The venn diagram of people who want to see both a bunch of pop punk bands and (hopefully) Fiona Apple can't be huge, but I'm definitely in it.

 

Smaller venue this year for Sad Summer, though.

 

The first year of sad summer was at Aragon so…. Tbs was prolly the only reason it was at northerly island last year

 

Salt Shed is wayyy better for this anyway

 

Pretty sure presale is already open for the festvial.

 

MGMT OR WE RIOT