Pitchfork Music Festival Cancelled After 19 Years
However, Pitchfork said it will "continue to produce events" in 2025 and beyond.
PJ Harvey @ Pitchfork Music Festival (Credit: swimfinfan from Chicago, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons)
Pitchfork Music Festival, a leading Chicago-based music festival that highlights the acts beloved by Pitchfork’s readers and editorial staff, has shared some bad news: its 2025 event won’t be going ahead.
Sharing the news today, Pitchfork staff spoke at length about the “difficult decision” regarding the event not happening in Chicago next year.
“For 19 years, Pitchfork Music Festival has been a celebration of music, art, and community—a space where memories were made, voices were amplified, and the shared love of music brought us all together,” the post from Pitchfork staff reads.
Adding that the festival has always been a “collaborative effort” that eventually took on a life of its own, organisers shared their gratitude at the City of Chicago for hosting the festival for nearly two decades, as well as the artists and fans who made it an unforgettable experience year on year.
The post continued, “Thank you to At Pluto and the rest of the hardworking Festival team whose dedication and creativity were the backbone of every event, and to the broader community whose spirit and support made the Festival a truly unique experience. And thank you to Mike Reed for founding the Festival and for your inspiring vision.
“Pitchfork will continue to produce events in 2025 and beyond. We look forward to continuing to create spaces where music, culture, and community intersect in uplifting ways—and we hope to see you there.”
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Over the years, artists who have performed at Pitchfork Music Festival include Tame Impala, Solange, Alanis Morissette, Bon Iver, The National, PJ Harvey, The Roots, Robyn, LCD Soundsystem, Beck, and many more.
Earlier this year, Pitchfork was hit with mass layoffs as its publisher, Condé Nast, folded into GQ.
The shock move was announced in a memo sent to Condé Nast staff, which acquired Pitchfork in 2015.
In the letter, Anna Wintour – the company’s chief content officer and the global editorial director of Vogue – wrote that she and her team would be “evolving our Pitchfork team structure by bringing the team into the GQ organisation.”
The photo above was taken by swimfan in Chicago. It’s been used with a Creative Commons 2.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0) via Wikimedia Commons. You can view the original photo here.
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