The folks who run the Pitchfork Music Festival — the influential three-day summer showcase of indie music in Chicago — have announced plans to stage a fall festival in Paris, headlined by the folk-rock group Bon Iver. The European festival is the latest milestone in Pitchfork’s remarkable rise as a force in the world of indie rock. Not only has this summer festival, now in its sixth year, become a must-go event for people interested in indie music, but the Web site of the same name has become one of the most prominent brands in online music journalism, widely seen as having the influence to pluck bands from obscurity and jump-start their careers.
Pitchfork has collaborated with festival organizers abroad in the past, taking part in the Primevera Sound Festival in Barcelona and the All Tomorrow’s Parties event England. Still, the two-day event to be held in Paris’s Parc de la Villette marks the first full-fledged foreign venture for the Chicago festival organizers, according to an announcement on the Pitchfork Web site.
The festival is scheduled for Oct. 28 and 29 in La Grande Halle de la Villette. The organizers promise “more than 20 bands and multitude of D.J.s” will play in the 5,000-seat hall, among them Jens Lekman, Wild Beasts, Cut Copy and Pantha du Prince. Bon Iver will headline the second day of the festival, along with several other artists selected by the group’s lead singer and songwriter, Justin Vernon.
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