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It's hard to overstate the importance of The Jesus Lizard both to Chicago and to their contribution to the music scene in general. Their brutal songs delivered with strangled and smothered screams hitched atop rhythms with human swing and impossibly tricky tempo changes were truly from another world. The band's possibilities were hinted at in singer David Yow and bassist David Wm. Sims' earlier band Scratch Acid, and that work seems like a sketch of things to come. But once you added guitarist Duane Denison and drummer Mac McNeilly into the mix the resulting controlled pandemonium was impossible to resist.

Credit Greg Kot for jumping the gun and forcing their hand before the curators even announced the line-up on their site -- a move we personally find somewhat classless -- but announcing the first few Pitchfork Music Festival acts have been announced. The Jesus Lizard (yay!), Built To Spill, Tortoise, and Yo La Tengo will open the fest with fan picked set-lists.

Lament the demise of The Jesus Lizard no more, for they have reformed to perform at next year's All Tomorrow's Parties festival in England! Now, why couldn't they have decided to do this for the Touch & Go fest a few years ago right here in Chicago? We smell a BIG fat paycheck ... and hold desperately to hopes that David Yow, Duane Denison, and David Sims bring their bonecrushing and always unpredictable brand of rock and/or roll back within our city limits sometime next year too.