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Pitchfork 2012: Best and Worst of the Festival
By Elly Fishman
With umbrellas in our hands and rainboots on our feet, Chicago braved the storms at Union Park this weekend for the seventh annual Pitchfork Music Festival. Photographers Ray Whitehouse and James Trevenen shot the wildest style, crowds, and performances, while writer Elly Fishman caught the best of the fest’s performers—both on stage and off... Read more
Pitchfork 2011: Best and Worst of the Festival
By Michell Eloy, Nora O'Donnell, Cassie Walker Burke
Heat stroke be damned: This past weekend, we sent a brave coterie of correspondents to cover Pitchfork 2011, which drew 45,000 or so to a dry and oh-so-dusty Union Park (the attendance figure is slightly down from past years). Here, our picks for best and worst of the fest. Read more
Lollapalooza 2008 in Photos
By Esther Kang & Megan Lovejoy
We went. We shot. We conquered. Here's a look at Lolla in pictures—everything from bands to crowds to tats to street style. Read more
Lupe Fiasco, Word Star
By Bryan Smith
Sit back and listen in on a Range Rover ride to the West Side with breakout rapper and Renaissance nerd Lupe Fiasco. You’ll get an earful on history, sociology, anthropology, and the artist’s muses, from Tchaikovsky to Noam Chomsky to Ice Cube Read more