Pitchfork Music Festival 2014

The Pitchfork Music Festival 2014 was held on July 18 to 19, 2014 at the Union Park, Chicago, United States.^[1] The festival was headlined by Beck, Kendrick Lamar and Neutral Milk Hotel.^[2] English rock band Slowdive made their first concert in North America in over twenty years.^[3] American band The Julie Ruin cancelled their appearance after frontwoman Kathleen Hanna suffered from Lyme disease.^[4]

Pitchfork Music Festival 2014
Dates	July 18–20, 2014
Location(s)	Union Park, Chicago, United States
Website	pitchforkmusicfestival.com

Lineup edit

Headline performers are listed in boldface. Artists listed from latest to earliest set times.^[5]

Green
Friday, July 18	Saturday, July 19	Sunday, July 20
Beck Sun Kil Moon Neneh Cherry	Neutral Milk Hotel Danny Brown Pusha T Wild Beasts Twin Peaks	Kendrick Lamar Slowdive Schoolboy Q Deafheaven Mutual Benefit

Red
Friday, July 18	Saturday, July 19	Sunday, July 20
Giorgio Moroder Sharon Van Etten ~~Death Grips~~^[a]	St. Vincent tUnE-yArDs Cloud Nothings Ka	Grimes Real Estate Earl Sweatshirt DIIV

Blue
Friday, July 18	Saturday, July 19	Sunday, July 20
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks SZA The Haxan Cloak Factory Floor Hundred Waters	FKA Twigs The Field Kelela The Range Mas Ysa Empress Of Circulatory System	Hudson Mohawke DJ Spinn^[b] Majical Cloudz Jon Hopkins Dum Dum Girls Isaiah Rashad Perfect Pussy Speedy Ortiz

^ Death Grips were scheduled to perform before announcing their breakup in early July.^[6]
^ DJ Rashad and DJ Spinn were scheduled to perform, but DJ Rashad passed away in April 2014.^[7] DJ Spinn proceed to play solo.^[8]

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^ Warwick, Kevin (March 20, 2014). "Announced: The Pitchfork Music Festival's 2014 lineup". Chicago Reader. from the original on July 25, 2022. Retrieved July 25, 2022.
^ Terry, John; Arroyo, Steven; Pfleegor, Dan; Essner, Dean; Lenz, Kristofer (21 July 2014). "Pitchfork Music Festival 2014: 10 Most Memorable Sets + Photos". Consequence. from the original on 2021-04-23. Retrieved 2022-07-25.
^ Hogan, Marc (May 13, 2014). "Kathleen Hanna's Lyme Disease Forces Julie Ruin Tour Cancellation". Spin. from the original on February 13, 2021. Retrieved July 25, 2022.
^ "Pitchfork Music Festival Set Times Revealed". Pitchfork. May 30, 2014. from the original on November 12, 2020. Retrieved July 25, 2022.
^ Newman, Jason (July 2, 2014). "Death Grips Break Up". Rolling Stone. from the original on June 25, 2022. Retrieved July 25, 2022.
^ Caramanica, Jon (April 28, 2014). "DJ Rashad, Chicago Dance Music Producer, Dies at 34". The New York Times. from the original on June 16, 2022. Retrieved July 25, 2022.
^ "The Reader's guide to the Pitchfork Music Festival 2014". Chicago Reader. July 15, 2014. from the original on July 25, 2022. Retrieved July 25, 2022.