So the Pitchfork music festival is this weekend in Chicago and I could not be more un-interested in the lineup. I admit that I have become pretty jaded and I have a hard time paying real money for a show theses days, unless Jawbox, Afghan Whigs and Superchunk decided to play a triple bill, I would pay for that.
Sonic Youth is playing their album Daydream Nation from start to finish. Thats about the most exciting artist on the bill to me and it's not even that exciting. I would probably go see Cat Power, but just to see if she flips out and starts crying on stage. I have seen her twice, one time was amazing, one time was hilarious. She played Sasquatch a few years ago, her road crew and band looked and acted as if they never left Williamsburg. Anyway, their dipshit tour manager forgot to tell Ms. Power that she only played 4 songs and still had 30min's left of her set. She then walked back on stage and half assed a karaoke version of Smoosh's "Rad". As far as the other bands on the bill, who cares. It's gonna be fucking hot and humid and I think the last place in the world I would want to be is at the Pitchfork Festival. Well other then maybe here
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Cat Power played a solo show at one of my friend's venues here in Greensboro last year and it was pretty ridiculous. She demanded stuff like a full length mirror (my friend had to take the one in the women's bathroom off the wall...) and had said she didn't want chairs put in the venue, but when she got onstage had everyone sit down on the floor anyway. She kept stopping in the middle of songs, asking for more reverb/less reverb, apologizing to everyone for sounding awful (she didn't). At one point in the set she stopped playing, lit up a cigarette, and started talking about how she lost her virginity. She's from this area, so a bunch of her family was there, including kid cousins. I couldn't listen to her music for about six months after that.
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