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Why a flounder gigger's suit against BP is one to watch
Although it's probably not BP's top priority at the moment, an ominous lawsuit was filed against it last month in state court in Mobile, Alabama, by a man named Obie F. Carlisle.
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A Letter to Pitchfork, From Jazz...
NPR :Hey, Joe Tangari and your editors, Im quite glad you like jazz enough to occasionally write about it at Pitchfork Media. We jazz people wouldnt mind significantly more, of course, but anything we can do to get the cool kids to pay atten
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The Pitchfork Music Festival: Can Indie Music Get Festive?
By Jeremy GantzThe thousands of people who will gather at Chicago's Union Park today for the annual Pitchfork Media Festival will be there for ostensibly one reason: to hear (and see) music performed by artists they love. But there's a secondary ...
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Is BP Ready to Show Tony Hayward the Door?
BPs board is meeting this evening to discuss the termination fate of C.E.O. Tony Hayward. [NPR] At least 19 people were killed and 340 injured at the Love Parade music festival near Dunsburg, Germany on Saturday. [Pitchfork] Spains ...
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Pitchforked | Croatian Sausage With Wolf Parade
The band from Montreal discuss their favorite food countries.
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Pitchfork Music Festival, From the Windy City & WBEZ
We're working with "Sound Opinions" host and Vocalo blogger Jim DeRogatis this weekend to bring you the best (and worst) of the Chicago's Pitchfork Music Festival 2010. Day 1: Robyn, Broken Social Scene, Modest Mouse and more.
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Pavement Vs. Pitchfork: Why It Matters
A tiff between the indie band and the reviews website might mean more to fans than a blacked-out video.
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Critical Breakdown: Wavves, Reluctant King Of The Blogs?
A look at what music writers are saying about the new album King of the Beach , by the band Wavves.
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Nerds vs. Westboro
Best counter protest EV-VAR! That is all. Protest - Westboro Baptist Church - San Diego - Lady Gaga - Counters and Trackers
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Pavement's Scott Kannberg Hates Pitchfork Because They Called His Record a Flaccid Penis...
Vanity Fair :One band member, about whom all we know is that he is not lead singer Stephen Malkmus, took issue with certain remarks about himself and the band that had been published on Pitchfork. Some of the things he objected to were bitchy, ...
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Pitchfork Day 2: 'Yawnfork'
I spent day two of Pitchfork dashing from the main stages to the Chicago Public Radio tent to file photos for rock critic Jim DeRogatis (Sound Opinions, formerly of the Chicago Sun-Times). His review - of the jam-packed, hit-or-miss Day 2 of the ...
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Q.&A.: Moving Media to the Droid
Copying music and picture files from your computer to your Motorola Droid takes a few steps.
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Critic DeRogatis: Pitchfork Stands for 'Local Music Community at Its Best'
Compared to past Pitchfork Music Festival, 2010 seemed a little slow to the critics and crowd. We get a few final words from Sound Opinions music critic Jim DeRogatis on Day 3.
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The Basketball Jersies of Pitchfork Fest...
The Faster Times :The 3rd annual Pitchfork Music and Judgement of Others Festival took place this past weekend in Chicagos Union Park. The festival featured music, corporate sponsorship, and the requirement to make snide comments about fellow ...
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Ristretto | Rock Star, Barista
In the green room at Pitchfork last weekend: designer coffee.
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Big Boi Rocks the Pitchfork Festival
Big Boi's Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty remains the gold standard for summer 2010 rap and the OutKast rapper took to the stage on the final day of last weekend's Pitchfork Festival to rock a medley of killer new tunes, including ...
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Pitchfork Music Festival 2010 Photos Ft. Modest Mouse, Raekwon, Pavement, Best Coast, Many More
Photos by Gavin Paul...
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Band member's beef with Pitchfork staff quashed live stream of festival set
Tonight's top show: Kid Sister, Konono No. 1 at Millennium Park| Main July 19, 2010 Pavement band member quashed Pitchfork stream of festival set Share| Though the Pitchfork Music Festival streamed video of virtually its entire main-stage lineup last ..
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David Cross Back on TV
I did a lot of driving this weekend, and in an effort to make the miles pass a little more pleasantly, I picked up the latest David Cross album, Bigger and Blackerer. Id previously read a disparaging Pitchfork review of it, and was fully prepared to ...
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Pitchfork Music Festival 2010: Sunday Recap
The final day of 2010s Pitchfork Festival was just as hot as Saturday, with stages that needed quick shots of energy to pull the audience out of its languor. Girls were pretty but wispy though they sounded stronger as I walked over to Washed Out, ..
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Friends of 'fork
New stars, old favorites at triumphant weekend that proves fest's potential as a world-class act If you were looking for someone wearing a Ladybug Transistor ...
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5 Notable Moments of the Pitchfork Music Fest
Now five years old, Chicago's Pitchfork Music Festival shook things up a bit this year, adding a comedy stage for a day and ditching the "Never Look Back" opening night where bands played seminal albums in their entirety. Not that the three-day event ...
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Pitchfork Music Festival 2010: Saturday Recap
A lot of times I compare live performances to how that band sounds on their album. At Pitchfork Festival, Saturday was really about how artists worked with the big crowd and the daytime heat (the latter was big factor yesterday as well). Delorean, for ...
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Pitchfork: Day 3 in review
Video produced by Kevin Pang The Pitchfork Music Festival 2010 is in the books. Maybe it was the oppressive heat, but this was not a high-energy festival overall. Beach House singer Victoria Legrand put it best Sunday: `There are a lot of mellow, dark ...
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Pitchfork Music Festival 2010: Friday Recap
Amrit and I saw Inception just before the start of this years Pitchfork Festival, so you have to read this post with the understanding that the first day may have been a dream, or maybe you are in a dream reading the review, or maybe this is a ...
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Pitchfork Music Festival 2010 in review
"Welcome to the magic kingdom," said a ticket-taker at the Pitchfork Music Festival. Irony and humor aside, the volunteer's invocation of the idea of Walt Disney World was quite apt. Music festivals - especially multi-day fests - are often not terribly ...
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Pitchfork Music Festival, From the Windy City & WBEZ
We're working with "Sound Opinions" host and Vocalo blogger Jim DeRogatis this weekend to bring you the best (and worst) of the Chicago's Pitchfork Music Festival 2010. Day 1: Robyn, Broken Social Scene, Modest Mouse and more.
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Pitchfork Fest: Day 2 in review
Video produced by Kevin Pang First prize for the days most grossly inappropriate outfit goes to Jon Spencer of the Blues Explosion, who wore skin-tight leather pants for his late-afternoon set Saturday at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Union Park, ...
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Gang members coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan with military training
Chicago Sun-Times | Bagram Air Base was covered with Chicago gang graffiti, everything from the Gangster Disciples' pitchfork to the Latin Kings' crown.
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Pitchfork 2010 kicks off in Union Park
Video produced by Kevin Pang Jack Black, circa School of Rock, wouldve appreciated this face-melter. The Pitchfork Music Festival got underway Friday in Union Park with enough heat and humidity to prompt promoters to cut the price of bottled wate
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