The lineups for both the 2012 Pitchfork Music Festival (partial lineup only) and also the Beale Street Music Festival have been announced. The Pitchfork Festival will be held at Chicago’s Union Park from July 13-15th. For the full Pitchfork lineup check back here.
Highlights of the Pitchfork lineup include Vampire Weekend, Feist, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Hot Chip, ASAP Rocky, araabMUZIK, Kendrick Lamar, Cloud Nothings, Litury, Grimes, The Field, Willis Earl Beal, Tim Hecker, and 30 other as yet unannounced acts.
The Beale Street Festival will be held May 4-6th at Tom Lee Park in Memphis, Tennessee. For the full Beale Street lineup, click here.
Highlights of the Beale Street lineup include My Morning Jacket, Florence and the Machine, Jane’s Addiction, Girl Talk, Primus, Megadeth, Lupe Fiasco, Al Green, Wiz Khalifa, Alison Krauss and Union Station, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Bush, Coheed and Cambria, Childish Gambino, Three 6 Mafia, Buddy Guy, The Cult, Cold War Kids, The Head and the Heart, Dr. Dog, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Big K.R.I.T., Black Lips, The Civil Wars, Son Volt, Robert Randolph and the Family Band, Volbeat, Gary Clark Jr., Old 97s, and Zoogma, among others.
If you were going to these festivals, who would you want to see?