Mike Reed said the longtime Chicago fest also was burdened by increasing pressure to book commercial pop acts like Justin ...

CHICAGO (CBS) — Pitchfork Music Festival will not be held in Chicago next year, organizers announced Monday. After 19 years ...

Pitchfork officials announced that the evolving landscape of the music industry required them to make difficult decisions, and that included pulling the plug on the Chicago-based festival that had ...

Back in November we got the disappointing news that Condé Nast, the publishing giant that has own Pitchfork since 2015, was ...

For the past 19 years, the festival has been hosted in Chicago, most recently taking place in Union park. The site stated, in part, "This decision was not made lightly. For 19 years, Pitchfork Music ...

The Pitchfork Music Festival is an annual music festival in Union Park in Chicago, Illinois, organized by the online magazine Pitchfork. Starting in 2011, the festival announced a branch staged in ...

While Chicago may be entering its bleariest month, you can still take in loads of enjoyment with live performances across ...

Reed told WBEZ that booking the festival since Condé Nast purchased Pitchfork had become “increasingly difficult,” and that the mass media company was trying to push the fest in a more pop direction: ...

Mike Reed says he felt increased pressure from Condé Nast, the festival’s new owners, to chase after commercial pop acts such as Justin Bieber or Demi Lovato, signaling to him they were unaware of the ...

Co-founder Matt Reed said he faced increasing pressure from the media company to put big commercial pop acts on the ...