Pitchfork Music Festival 2012 took place July 13 – 15 in Chicago’s Union Park. Now in its seventh year, the independently run three-day event focuses on the best in indie, alternative, hip-hop, and electronica.
 
This summer’s event featured Vampire Weekend, Feist, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Hot Chip, and many more.
 
Here are some festival highlights.
 
Photos by M Jackson 
 
 
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Amber Coffman, singer and guitar player for Brooklyn's Dirty Projectors 
 
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David Longstreth from Dirty Projectors 
 
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Abraham Orellana, aka AraabMuzik
 
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Beach House singer/songwriter and keyboardist Victoria Legrand
 

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Matt Sweeney, guitarist for New York alternative rockers, Chavez 
 
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Chavez bass player Scott Marshall 

 
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Canadian singer/songwriter Feist 
 
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Vancouver's own Claire Boucher - aka Grimes
 
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Al Doyle of Hot Chip

 
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Rapper Schoolboy Q 
 
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Vampire Weekend lead singer and guitarist Ezra Koenig  
   
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Ezra Koenig 
 
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Singer Alexis Krauss of NYC's Sleigh Bells 

 
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor sets up on Saturday, July 14
 
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Mary Timony of Wild Flag 
 
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 Wild Flag's Carrie Brownstein
 
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Rapper Big K.R.I.T. (King Remembered In Time) 
 
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 Detroit rapper Danny Brown 
 
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Megan James, singer for Montreal-based band Purity Ring 
 
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Johnny Jewel, producer/multi-instrumentalist for Portland, Oregon's Chromatics  

 
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Ruth Radelet of the Chromatics