Annual festivals feature various acts such as Lollapalooza and Pitchfork Music Festival.

Ono headlined the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago on July 14, 2007, performing a full set that mixed music and performance art.

On February 28th, 2012, it was announced that the band would be performing at the 2012 Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago.

Though they insisted the reunion was short-term, the band regrouped once again in 2007 to perform Spiderland in its entirety in Barcelona as part of the Primavera Sound Festival, in London as part of the ATP Don't Look Back series of shows, as well as at a handful of dates in Europe, the U. S. ( at Chicago's Pitchfork Music Festival, the Showbox in Seattle, and the Henry Fonda Theatre in Hollywood ), and Canada.

Built to Spill played the 2009 Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago, along with Yo La Tengo, Tortoise and The Jesus Lizard, as part of the " Write the Night " series, which allowed fans to choose which songs the bands play.

These shows included appearances at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago, and All Tomorrow's Parties music festivals in England and New York.

On 16 April 2010 they played a one-off show at Brooklyn Bowl and announced more shows taking place from July 2010 including Pitchfork Music Festival, Chicago, the Matador @ 21 Festival at The Pearl, Las Vegas and a number of US and Canadian shows.

* Pitchfork Music Festival

He was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize again, and despite the fact that the album was not released in the United States in 2007, it received high praise from international music critics, magazines, websites, and blogs, including Pitchfork Media, Rolling Stone, NME, and Rock Sound.

The band would play 10 more shows in 2011, including high-profile appearances at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago and the annual " Roots Picnic " in Philadelphia.

Mastodon would play the Hove Festival in Norway as well as on the Main Stage of the Download Festival and then the Pitchfork Music Festival.

It was later shortlisted for the Polaris Music Prize in 2006, while Pitchfork Media placed Twin Cinema at number 150 on their list of the Top 200 Albums of the 2000s.

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* Pitchfork Music Festival, an annual summer music festival in Union Park, Chicago

Two were held each year ; one a stand-alone event in April, and one at the Pitchfork Music Festival ( formerly the Intonation Music Festival ).

Pitchfork staged their own music festival in 2006, the Pitchfork Music Festival.

"' We looked at what was happening this summer, and the festival crowds of Chicago are being well served at this point ,' Intonation spokesman David Singer said, citing competition from the Pitchfork Music Festival in Union Park on July 13-15, Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival at Toyota Park on July 28, Lollapalooza in Grant Park on Aug. 3-5 and the combination of the Hideout Block Party and Metro's 25th anniversary celebration at Elston and Wabansia on Sept.

Shortly after the release of their first album, they received attention from numerous MP3 blogs and a favorable review from Pitchfork Media, who gave the band a " Best New Music " commendation.

In recent years the All Tomorrow's Parties organisation has also been involved in booking stages at the Pitchfork Music Festival and the Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona, Spain.

They shared tours with Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and Editors, and played at numerous festivals including the 2006 Pitchfork Music Festival, Reading and Leeds Festivals, Pukkelpop, and more.

Byron wished to cancel the Mae Shi's performance at the Pitchfork Music Festival in July 2009, but the others went ahead with it.

* Music Website of the Year: Pitchfork Media

Pitchfork Media founder Ryan Schreiber also commonly cites the station's influence as having been an integral factor in his decision to start an online publication dedicated to the coverage of independent music.

Jarmusch is also featured on the album Wu-Tang Meets the Indie Culture ( 2005 ) in two interludes described by Sean Fennessy in a Pitchfork Media review of the album as both " bizarrely pretentious " and " reason alone to give it a listen ".

However, it received mixed reviews: Pitchfork Media called it " flat and dead ", while Allmusic called it " a refreshingly retro rock & roll album "

* Inferno, an album by Project Pitchfork

In an interview with Pitchfork Media, drummer? uestlove said that the album was 97 % finished and that D ' Angelo was just finishing his lyrics.

In 2009, it was named the best album of the 2000s in several rankings such as Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, and The Times, and was ranked # 67 in the updated version of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

In 2005, two popular indie music publications, Pitchfork Media and Stylus Magazine, independently named Kid A the best album of the past five years.

Rolling Stone, Pitchfork and The Times would all go on to rank Kid A as the greatest album of the 2000s.

Their debut album Nowhere has been named one of the greatest albums of the shoegazing genre, Nowhere was voted number 74 on Pitchfork Media's list of the Top 100 Albums of the 1990s, and closing track " Vapour Trail " was voted at number 145 on Pitchfork's Top 200 Tracks of the 90s.

Critical reaction was extremely positive ; Pitchfork awarded the album a 9. 7 out of 10, and Allmusic reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote that it was " arguably Yo La Tengo's finest and most coherent album to date.

The album received mostly positive reviews, gaining four stars from Rolling Stone and a 9. 0 from Pitchfork Media.

In 2003, Pitchfork placed the album at # 53 on their " Top 100 Albums of the 1990s " list.

Pitchfork reviewer Alexander Linhardt gave the album nine out of a maximum ten points, although noted that the album was less structured and more experimental than its successor Outsideinside.

Pitchfork Media listed Swordfishtrombones as 11th best album of the 1980s.

The album was also a critical success, being ranked 114th on Pitchfork Media's Top 200 Albums of the first decade of the 21st century List, and 10th on Rhapsody's Hip Hop's Best Albums Of The Decade List.

Rechristened The Obliterati, the new album was released on Matador on May 23, 2006 and was named as the 33rd best record of 2006 by Pitchfork Media and placed 50th in the Pazz & Jop poll.

The album was critically well-received including a 9. 8 out of 10 score from online music magazine, Pitchfork Media.

It was listed as the 90th best album of the 1990s by Pitchfork, who complimented Elizabeth Fraser's more direct vocals and the album's complex songwriting.

Many critics reviewed the album, Pitchfork Media quotes " The Richard D. James Album is 43. 5 minutes of pure electronic genius " A review by the Chicago Sun-Times < nowiki >'</ nowiki > Jim DeRogatis said of the album: " James has turned inward for inspiration, painting aural pictures of real and imagined scenes from his West Country childhood.

Although the album did not meet commercial success at the time of release, it has gone on to sell over 300, 000 copies and received critical acclaim from several publications, including Pitchfork Media, Magnet Magazine, Allmusic, and The Pazz & Jop poll.

Exponential Records has helped put San Antonio Electronica on the map, catapulting artists like Diego Chavez, a. k. a. Aether-whose album Artifacts received a 7 out of 10 from the notoriously stingy Pitchfork Media, and Ernest Gonzales, a. k. a. Mexicans With Guns, to much wider audiences.