So Pitchfork Is Hosting A Huge Music Festival Called #Offline In New York Next Week, Just In Time to Compete With CMJ
Well, that's one way to let CMJ know what you think of it, if you are the vast music recommendation website Pitchfork--by having a multi-day, 30-plus band festival in the middle of Williamsburg during the marathon's prime three nights. They're calling it #Offline, paradoxical hashtag and all; dates are set for October 21-23 at Brooklyn Bowl. The line-up skews a little Altered Zones (Sun Airway, Diamond Rings, Lower Dens), a little Jersey (Beach Fossils, Andrew Cedermark), and a lot, uh, Pitchfork (Freddie Gibbs! Marnie Stern! Avey Tare!), right down to the swagger that led the site to hold off on the announcement of their own gigantic shindig until it was only a week away. SOTC favorites A-Trak and How To Dress Well will be there, too; here's the full, three-day line-up:
Thursday, October 21Tickets are a quite reasonable $10 per day, and available now; there is an ominous silence radiating from the Pitchfork announcement as to whether a CMJ badge will do anything for you here, which suggests it won't. We're checking on that part now (early word from both camps says there is no partnership whatsoever); if that is in fact the case, then Pitchfork just declared war. Which would be interesting.
Dave Sitek/Maximum Balloon (DJ set)
Times New Viking
Gold Panda
Dom
Beach Fossils
Wild Nothing
Small Black
Lower Dens
Dominique Young Unique
Dent May
Keepaway
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Friday, October 22
Avey Tare (DJ set)
Zola Jesus
Marnie Stern
How to Dress Well
Deradoorian
Glasser
Baths
Tanlines
Candy Claws
Andrew Cedermark
Sun Airway
Cloud Nothings
Big Troubles
+ More TBA
Saturday, October 23
Fool's Gold Three Year Anniversary Presented by Scion (Ft. A-Trak, Treasure Fingers, Donnis, CyHi Da Prynce, the Suzan, Kingdom, Araabmuzik)
Matthew Dear
Freddie Gibbs
Active Child
Javelin
Ty Segall
Diamond Rings
Cults
Highlife
Lord Huron
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