{"id":961,"date":"2008-08-04T16:40:32","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T16:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=961"},"modified":"2011-08-25T22:53:15","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T03:53:15","slug":"pitchfork_day_o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/08\/pitchfork_day_o.html","title":{"rendered":"Pitchfork: Day One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u>A Hawk and a Hacksaw<\/u>:<\/strong>  Unusual instrumentation.  Sometimes enjoyable, but sometimes too much &#8220;orchestra jam band.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Caribou<\/u>:<\/strong>  Not for me.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Fleet Foxes<\/u>:<\/strong>  Yay!! <strong>My favorite performance of the weekend. <\/strong> They are lush and layered and lovely and I really really loved it, despite the sound completely dropping out for a song in the middle there.  (But you&#8217;ve got to expect that with outdoor festivals.)  Their harmonization is just wonderful.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Dizzee Rascal<\/u>: <\/strong> <strong>So much fun!! <\/strong> I&#8217;ve heard it argued otherwise, but in my opinion rap is generally a more reliable performance at these outdoor fests because it just plain doesn&#8217;t matter how crappy the &#8220;music&#8221; in the background sounds \/ distorted, dropping in and out, what have you.  With actual bands, that&#8217;s a problem.  But as long as the rapper is loud and lively, he can still sound awesome despite those kinds of outdoor fest problems.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>The Hold Steady<\/u>:  <\/strong>Pretty sizzling set&#8230;the bromance* crowd was really into it.  But I&#8217;ve never listened to their follow-up albums the way I did to their first, and I&#8217;ve seen them a ton of times (this was the 4th or 5th, but I&#8217;ll go with 4th).  So while it seemed high energy and the crowd was excited, I felt more laidback about the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Jarvis Cocker<\/u>: <\/strong> Somehow the sound was completely screwed up and I could barely hear the dude at all.  So we left.<\/p>\n<p><em>*Seems this word is in the air these days.  First Joss Whedon going on about his bromance feelings toward Tahmoh at ComicCon.  Then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/monitormix\/2008\/07\/bromantic.html\">this post over at NPR Monitor Mix<\/a>.  EVERY Hold Steady show I&#8217;ve been to has been a total bromance and you&#8217;ll see many of her commenters suggested it as well.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Hawk and a Hacksaw: Unusual instrumentation. Sometimes enjoyable, but sometimes too much &#8220;orchestra jam band.&#8221; Caribou: Not for me. Fleet Foxes: Yay!! My favorite performance of the weekend. They are lush and layered and lovely and I really really &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/08\/pitchfork_day_o.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-listenin","category-live","category-tunes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1722,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions\/1722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}