In November 2024, when Condé Nast announced the end of Chicago’s Pitchfork Music Festival, the discourse focused on the changing economic and social climate for large-scale music events and the ...

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When Condé Nast shut down the Pitchfork Music Festival, the festival he co-founded nearly 20 years ago, in 2024, Mike Reed immediately got back to work. The musician, composer, and bandleader is ...

Mike Reed is back in the music festival game, and this time, he’s doing things his way. The Pitchfork Music Festival co-founder, venue owner and prominent Chicago presenter and musician will launch ...

There’s a new kid on the musical festival block headed to Chicago this fall. Well, it’s not a new festival, per se, according to Pitchfork Music Festival co-founder Mike Reed, who on Wednesday ...