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The rumors had been swirling about who else would play Friday night at the Pitchfork Music Festival and those rumors turned out to be true for Slint and GZA joining up with Sonic Youth to play a full album. We never heard a peep about Saturday’s headliner of Yoko Ono.
Love her or hate her, for a myriad of reasons, John Lennon’s widow is quite the accomplishment for Pitchfork’s Fest in July. Ono is more avant-garde artist, than an easy-on-the-ears pop performer, but her shrieks have inspired more than just a few contemporary alternative artists. Fellow Pitchfork performer, Thurston Moore helped remix 1995’s Rising. Ono’s latest artistic collaboration, Yes, I’m a Witch provided some of today’s more artsy artists (Cat Power, Polyphonic Spree, The Flaming Lips) an amazing chance to de- and re-construct Yoko’s songs.
Other announcements to the Pitchfork lineup include Califone, Sea & Cake, William Parker, and Twilight Sad. It's starting to feel more and more like we'll be celebrating, not just music, but the art of music in Union Park this year.
Tickets and passes on sale through the festival’s website. Three-day passes $50, Friday only $15, Saturday or Sunday only $25.
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LOL @ Yoko Ono
LOL even more at people that validate her because some lame hipster website included her in their fest.
Sheep amuse me.
Yoko Ono rules/ I love that one song where she sings 'OOOONNNNGGG HHHAHAHHAHAHHHHH HEEEENNIIIGGGG' and then sings 'AAAHHHHNNNNNIG WAWAWAWAWAWAAAAAAAAAAA.' Great tune.
This will be the act I choose to go get a corndog and wait three hours in line to use the port-a-johns.
You guys are hilarious!
Will you be shouting for 'freebird' during every act's set too? Since that's about as clever and predictable as the Yoko digs. You can go back to patting yourselves on the back and making Tim Allen and Jay Leno caliber jokes now.
This is awesome. Hate if you must, but you're just plain wrong.
Hey don't get mad at me, I never said she broke up the Beatles. Oh wait a second- yes I did....
No one make fun of Yoko Ono and her riding her dead husband's corpse for three decades, navin gets all sensitive in his lady parts.
haters, please! feel free to leave early so i can get right down in front and dig the sure-to-be-freaky shrieking! it may not be pop music, but it sure is art and i'm pretty excited about the new additions! oh, and sea and cake? great add! thanks, pitchfork...
navin gets all sensitive in his lady parts.
Ah, yes there's some more of that clever humor.
Your predictable groaner insults to her don't bother me one bit, it's the insult to comedy and intelligence that's troubling.
I'm excited about the Twilight Sad, very cool current CD.
ah, so it shall be: anyone who doesn't like shreiking will herefore be labeled as a brute who likes base things like "songs" with "notes" and "words". ono shall be defended at every stop along the way, and with just as much shreiking, for she is immutable, her purposeful flaws only reinforcing that brilliance. further, it would serve the order of things if the rest of us would reiterate our support for bush while eating low grade high calorie food items and set up living establishments in less densely populated areas, for that is our lot. mock us repeatedly, so that we can appreciate fully the chasm that separates your distinguished wisdom, palate, and right to personal opinion from that of our own.
ah, so it shall be: anyone who doesn't like shreiking will herefore be labeled as a brute who likes base things like "songs" with "notes" and "words".
No only people who make predictably lame and retarded jokes and in your case posts because teasing her is like shooting fish in a barrel, the equivalent of '70s era family variety show comedy. I don't really care for her (her music) that much myself but it's no excuse to crack the expected tired groaners. So if you're feeling defensive about being a typically right on cue lame-o that's your issue but let's not blame this on taste in music. O.K?
I wish I had married John Lennon, so I could throw a bunch of random sounds together,call it music, and receive 100x more press than the thousands of talented musicians who will never get a break.
No wonder she didn't care he cheated on her with enough women to impress Wilt Chamberlain!
You people. First of all, Yoko was making "shrieking" long before she met John. Solo she probably qualifues as an "artist" more than a "musician", but so what? How many of you taking cheap shots have heard her new album? Admittedly, it's a bunch of other artists remixing her music, but it really is a solid beautiful album. Yoko has plenty of "songs" with "words" and "notes", but you'll never realize that because you have a preconcieved notion of who she is and what she does. There's no doubt that not everyone will like her, but if you don't like her, why do you feel obligated to take cheap shots?
If real, this whole appearance is just inviting some nutjob to come and whack her. I'd really like to go if I didn't fear for my life right.
have you heard her duet with the polyphonic spree?
nightmares, I tell ya.
NIGHTMARES
besides her shrieking and her reputation with Lennon, Yoko Ono heavily contributed, perhaps even prompted, the Feminist revolution in 20th century art. Not venerating Yoko for her contributions would be like hating Thomas Jefferson because he wore an ugly wig.
i wonder how many of these comments were written people who work for Pitchfork????
I wonder how many of these comments were written by people who work for the Department of Homeland Security.
Ono was involved with the superweird and interesting and fun Fluxus art movement before she was with Lennon. I like to think he must've respected her, at least; there was no reason to marry her otherwise. That being said, she is not to my taste (AT ALL), so I won't be watching her. But I still don't think it's cool to treat her like the punchline to an old, bad joke.
But I still don't think it's cool to treat her like the punchline to an old, bad joke.
No, it's still cool.
Will all the Yoko defenders please listen to this song. Then try defending her.
Kiss, kiss, kiss, kiss me, love,
Just one kiss, kiss will do.
Kiss, kiss, kiss, kiss me, love,
Just one kiss, kiss will do.
Why death?
Why life?
Warm hearts?
Cold darts?
Kiss, kiss, kiss, kiss me, love,
I’m bleeding inside.
It’s a long, long story to tell
And I can only show you my hell.
Touch, touch, touch, touch me, love,
Just one touch, touch will do.
Touch, touch, touch, touch me, love,
Just one touch, touch will do.
Why me?
Why you?
Broken mirror?
White terror?
Touch, touch, touch, touch me, love,
I’m shaking inside.
It’s that faint, faint sound of the childhood bell
Ringing in my soul.
Kiss, kiss, kiss, kiss me, love,
Just one kiss, kiss will do.
"...and those rumors turned out to be true for Slint and GZA joining up with Sonic Youth to play a full album."
Funny, I don't remember a Sonic Youth album that featured Slint and GZA.
pylbug - you win! And are apparently the only one who reads critically. That totally is an awkward turn of phrase.
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