Earl Sweatshirt executes onstage throughout the 2019 Pitchfork Music Festival at Union Park on July 19, 2019 in Chicago. Barry Brecheisen/WireImage
After 20 years invested as one of one of the most well-known songs celebrations in North America, the Pitchfork Music Festival will certainly not be going back to Chicago in 2025, coordinators have actually exposed.
The information was shared on both the festival’s website and social networks accounts, clarifying that, “as the songs celebration landscape remains to progress quickly, we have actually made the hard choice not to host Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago in 2025″.
“This decision was not made lightly,” the declaration proceeded. “For 19 years, Pitchfork Music Festival has actually been an event of songs, art, and neighborhood—a room where memories were made, voices were intensified, and the common love of songs brought all of us with each other. The Festival, while lined up with the preference of the Pitchfork content group, has actually constantly been a collective initiative, tackling a life of its very own as a crucial column of the Chicago arts scene.
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“We are deeply grateful to the City of Chicago for being our Festival’s home for nearly two decades, to the artists who graced our stages with unforgettable performances, and to the fans who brought unmatched energy year after year. Thank you to At Pluto and the rest of the hardworking Festival team whose dedication and creativity were the backbone of every event, and to the broader community whose spirit and support made the Festival a truly unique experience. And thank you to Mike Reed for founding the Festival and for your inspiring vision.”
“Pitchfork will continue to produce events in 2025 and beyond,” they ended. “We look forward to continuing to create spaces where music, culture, and community intersect in uplifting ways—and we hope to see you there.”
The Pitchfork Music Festival has its beginnings in 2005’s Intonation Music Festival, which saw neighborhood marketers Skyline Chicago hire Pitchfork Media to curate their inaugural occasion at Chicago’s Union Park. Though Intonation would certainly return in 2006, Pitchfork Media split to develop their very own occasion under the Pitchfork Music Festival name.
Over the years, the celebration has actually included a plethora of well known headliners, consisting of Animal Collective, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Slint, Björk, Wilco, A Tribe Called Quest, the Isley Brothers, and a lot more. Though their 2020 occasion was terminated because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it returned in earnest in 2021, with this year’s occasion occurring in July and including Jamie xx, Alanis Morissette, and Black Pumas as headliners.
The celebration additionally broadened beyond its Union Park home, holding worldwide occasions in Paris in between 2011 and 2022; in London from 2021 to 2023; Berlin in 2020 and 2022; and a single occasion in Mexico City this year.
The information of Pitchfork Music Festival’s death gets here months after Condé Nast revealed in January that personnel discharges would certainly occur as the site was taken in by one more Condé title, guys’s publication GQ.
