Hold Steady, Sebadoh, Caribou Round Out Pitchfork Festival Lineup!

Plus: Times New Viking, High Places, Bon Iver, Elf Power, HEALTH, Mahjongg, Icy Demons, Titus Andronicus, Boban i Marko Markovic Orkestar

Bravo Windy City! Bravo! The lineup for the 2008 Pitchfork Music Festival– blasting minds at Chicago’s Union Park July 18-20– is officially complete. And it looks very impressive.
Pitchfork filled out out Friday’s Don’t Look Back festivities (held in conjunction with All Tomorrow’s Parties), with lo-fi indie rock juggernauts Sebadoh, who will perform their soon-to-be-reissued 1993 album Bubble and Scrape in its entirety. They join Mission of Burma, toring through Vs., and Public Enemy, turning back the clock on the crowd with 1988′s It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.

Then on Saturday, the festival welcomes a bar band that’s worthy of playing at a festival, the mighty Hold Steady– along with the psych-pop of Caribou, the Elephant 6 affiliates Elf Power, Jersey ruckus mongers Titus Andronicus, the off-kilter free jazz of Chicago’s Icy Demons, and the Balkan natives Boban i Marko Markovic Orkestar.

Finally, on Sunday, the bill expands to include some engaging upstarts: moorish folk from Bon Iver, noisy collisions from Times New Viking and HEALTH, percussive experimentalism from Brooklyn duo High Places, and the genre alchemy of Mahjongg
Here’s what you can expect to hear at Chicago’s lovely Union Park in July (latest additions starred):

Friday, July 18:
Pitchfork Music Festival and All Tomorrow’s Parties present “Don’t Look Back”

Public Enemy performing It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
* Sebadoh performing Bubble and Scrape *
Mission of Burma performing Vs.

Saturday, July 19:

Animal Collective
Jarvis Cocker
* The Hold Steady *
!!!
Vampire Weekend
Dizzee Rascal
Fleet Foxes
* Caribou *
Jay Reatard
* Titus Andronicus *
No Age
Atlas Sound
Extra Golden
* Elf Power *
The Ruby Suns
* Icy Demons *
A Hawk and a Hacksaw
Occidental Brothers Dance Band International
* Boban i Marko Markovic Orkestar *

Sunday, July 20:

Spoon
Dinosaur Jr.
Spiritualized
M. Ward
Ghostface and Raekwon
Les Savy Fav
The Apples in Stereo
Boris
Dirty Projectors
* Times New Viking *
Cut Copy
* Bon Iver *
The Dodos
King Khan & His Shrines
El Guincho
Fuck Buttons
* HEALTH *
* High Places *
* Mahjongg *

Tickets for the 2008 Pitchfork Music Festival are on sale now, and Pitchfork underscores that they’re going FAST. Three-day passes go fo $65, two-day passes for Saturday and Sunday are $50, and individual day passes can enter your luck hands for a measly $30. If you love affordable live music (we know you do) you can buy your tickets here.

In addition, the Pitchfork Music Festival has a new radio partner in the form of the eclectic KEXP. They’ll broadcast live from Chicago in the days leading up to the festival. KEXP DJs John Richards and Cheryl Waters will do their shows from the festival grounds on Saturday and Sunday, and throughout the weekend KEXP will air select live festival performances. Over and out!