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In a sharp programming shift, Day 1 went from the psychedelic pop of Olivia Tremor Control into the mixtape hip-hop of A$AP Rocky.

Elephant Six founders bring energetic pop while Lower Dens delivers a mixed set.

We're getting ready to head over to Union Park to begin our annual coverage of the Pitchfork Music Festival. Check back later today and all weekend for photos and reviews (including coverage from Jim DeRogatis) of all the music and fashion happening in the temporary village that Pitchfork built.

Mike "Pitchfork" Reed's ever-evolving "Brilliant Corners of Popular Amusements" end-of-summer mixed-media blowout will return in its third incarnation on September 21-23 at the new Riverfront Theater at 650 W.

As noted in revisions and an update to today's original post on the fatal stage collapse at the Toronto Radiohead concert promoted by Live Nation, the story contained two errors.The company was not the promoter of the Indiana Sugarland concert that claimed seven lives last summer; it sold sponso

A mere fraction of the reports about the latest concert tragedy note that this is the third major disaster of its kind at a show recently run by Live Nation.

R&B star R. Kelly, who last year saw his suburban Chicago mansion fall into foreclosure, now has the Internal Revenue Service at his door.