pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

pee sure

a state of emergency is where Fork wants to be

laming out the weed

Having R. Kelly is probably a reaction to the general awkwardness The People's List created.

lol m@tt:

RT @ryanpitchfork: Also just want to thank @rkelly for weeding out the lames this year.- says the guy who also booked belle & sebastian

r. kelly to weed out the lames, bjork to weed out the norms, belle & sebastian to weed out the people with good taste in music

who's bringing the weed

everybody throw your zebra pens in the air

doesn't r. kelly play in chicago pretty regularly?

is this year's festival going to be taped for schreiber's episode of My Super Sweet 16?

xp:

brent dicrescenzo ‏@bdicrescenzo

R Kelly plays Chicago like 4 times a year. You could have gone to see him if you cared in a non-ironic fashion.

boom

The last time R. Kelly played, about a month ago, it was at the shit-ass Arie Crown, and it involved women in cages, iirc.

Also iirc, the last time Feist played here, beside the fork fest, was in 2011, at the Riv. I want to say before that it was the Vic, both smaller than B&S, who last played the Chi Theatre, preceded by the Riv, but before that I want to say the Congress. They really haven't played Chicago much, but neither has Feist, I don't think.

Man its like my post didn't exist.

Feist has also played Ravinia at least once.

I saw your post, just saying I don't think she played the Riv twice. But I totally forgot about the, er, Rav!

gonna make big bucks by smuggling in no-doz and jolt and selling them right before the B&S set

― congratulations (n/a), Friday, February 1, 2013 11:50 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

(because they are a snooze)

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Have you ever seen Belle and Sebastian live?

I'm excited about these headliners b/c I'm guessing they'll all be really great *entertainers* in a live festival setting. More so, for instance, than Animal Collective or Vampire Weekend or the National.

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brent dicrescenzo ‏@bdicrescenzo
R Kelly plays Chicago like 4 times a year. You could have gone to see him if you cared in a non-ironic fashion.

― Ima R.A.E.D. (DJP), Friday, February 1, 2013 2:52 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

love that

booming zing

B&S's most recent appearance was at the 3,600 capacity Chicago Theater (they played the Riv in 2006).

In 2003 they headlined the Congress, which is about the same capacity as the Chicago Theater.

Have you ever seen Belle and Sebastian live?

no. i don't like them.

I think the big dif from Feist is that B&S have fans who would fly to see them. Maybe Bjork, too, if she is not doing an extensive tour, but B&S for sure. They really don't play much.

The fact that B&S aren't supporting an album is probably best for everyone. Going to a B&S concert is basically wishing they play as many mid-90s songs as possible.

eh they could be supporting an album by the summer

Fingers crossed no!

no. i don't like them.

I guess my point is that their live show is much more razzle-dazzle than you might expect. (Especially if your idea of them is rooted in the twee/amateurish stylings of their early material.)

well now I'm imagining a Britney/Janet/Madonna-esque choreographed dance extravaganza to "Legal Man"

Add horns and you aren't that far away.

i do like horns

i'd be interested in seeing video of belle + sebastian at p4k. when i saw them (battery park) they were pretty snoozy i thought. but they played some songs i liked and it was nice to sit in a park.

seeing kells at united center is lame tbrr

should've went all chicago headliners: R Kelly, Styx, and Umphreys McGee

B&S are the ultimate "nice to sit in the park" act. R. Kelly is not, so it will be funny watching perform for people sitting in a park.

should've went all chicago headliners: R Kelly, StyxCheap Trick, and Umphreys McGee

Can't believe you left umphreys McGee in there

I was just being equitable.

Can't believe you left "went" in there

Just the thought of R. Kelly makes me went myself

R. would be proud

gives new meaning to the sentence "r kelly came and went"

Shellac plays Kilroy Was Here in its entirety

seeing kells at united center is lame tbrr

otm. r will rip up the stage at pitchfork generally speaking if you go see him you gotta put up with a very shitty venue you would generally try to avoid

r. kelly could offer to perform his greatest hits at my wedding for free and i still can't imagine a universe where i would suffer through this thing

well.... r. kelly just peed all over you!

Ryan Schreiber ‏@ryanpitchfork
Also just want to thank @rkelly for weeding out the lames this year. <3
And for making my desire to urinate on children seem hip and legal!

Great pitchfork fest indie shit 2013 keep on keepin luv indie

I've seen R. Kelly two, maybe three times, and he's been not so hot every time. One of those cats, sort of like current Prince, who wastes a lot of oxygen boasting that he's going to play all his hits, and then does just that ... in a ten minute medley. And then he sings a song about a majestic eagle bringing the troops home or something. But I know folks who have seen him focused, too, so who knows what the Chicago summer night will bring out of him. I'm trying to think if he's ever played a large, open-air sort of fest locally. Certainly the folks at the Union Park pool will have an awesome nightswim soundtrack.

And then he sings a song about a majestic eagle bringing the troops home or something.

80 percent of his songs are about this

Maybe I'm just slow on the uptake, but when did Pitchfork introduce the ability to look up reviews and articles by staff? Is this relatively new?

Noticed that only recently too so I assume it's somewhat new. Pretty nifty.