Fleet Foxes, Animal Collective, and TV on the Radio are taking the main stage at this year’s three-day Pitchfork Music Festival. The festival is a leading annual event for indie music lovers, now entering its sixth year, and is set to take place in Chicago’s Union Park. This year the organizers have announced several environmental initiatives including aiming to recycle over 50 percent of waste, an extended bicycle park, the use of hybrid vehicles and generating all the festival’s power from bio-diesel.
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6th Pitchfork Music Festival
July 15-17
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Also, plans to expand internationally for the first time, with a two-day festival in Paris with headliner (and curator) Bon Iver.
The Paris Pitchfork event will run October 28-29 at La Grand Halle de la Villette in Paris’s Parc de la Villette and will feature 20 bands and DJs, expecting to draw some 10,000 people. Other acts expected to perform so far include Justin Vernon, Jens Lekman, Wild Beasts, Cut Copy, Kathleen Edwards, and Pantha du Prince.