Chicago’s own Pitchfork Music Festival has announced its final wave of acts, including headlining sets from Fleet Foxes and the elusive Ms. Lauryn Hill, giving a special 20th anniversary performance of her album The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill. In a small act of mercy for outlets like this one, the final wave announcement was made in the form of a press release, eschewing the festival’s recent trend of having artists’ names slowly drawn one by one in latte foam or whatever.
Also new to the 2018 Pitchfork lineup are Saba, Open Mike Eagle, The Curls, Blood Orange, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Circuit des Yeux, Nilüfer Yanya, Paul Cherry, Noname, Alex Cameron, Japanese Breakfast, and Nnamdi Ogbonnaya.
The Pitchfork Music Festival is set to take place from July 20-July 22 in Chicago’s Union Park. A complete list of performers is below, with new additions noted in bold. Tickets for the festival are currently on sale here.
Friday, July 20
Tame Impala
Courtney Barnett
Mount Kimbie
Big Thief
Earl Sweatshirt
Syd
Julien Baker
Saba
Open Mike Eagle
Julie Byrne
Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society
Lucy Dacus
Melkbelly
The Curls
Saturday, July 21
Fleet Foxes
The War on Drugs
Blood Orange
Raphael Saadiq
This Is Not This Heat
Moses Sumney
Kelela
Girlpool
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
Circuit des Yeux
Nilüfer Yanya
Zola Jesus
berhana
Paul Cherry
Sunday, July 22
Ms. Lauryn Hill–The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill 20th Anniversary Performance
Chaka Khan
DRAM
Noname
Japandroids
(Sandy) Alex G
Alex Cameron
Smino
Japanese Breakfast
Kelly Lee Owens
Ravyn Lenae
Kweku Collins
Irreversible Entanglements
Nnamdi Ogbonnaya