When last we checked in with the Pitchfork Music Festival, Sonic Youth had signed on to play their classic 1988 album, Daydream Nation, in its entirety on its opening night. Kim and Thurston and Lee and Steve just got some company.
The website announced today that the Wu-Tang Clan's GZA will also perform his 1995 classic, Liquid Swords, and post-rock forbearers Slint will play their 1994 landmark, Spiderland. If I may interject: it's going to be a completist's wet dream up that in piece, yo.
The performances will take place Friday, July 13 at Chicago's Union Park and be co-sponsored by All Tomorrow's Parties' Don't Look Back. The rest of the Pitchfork Music Festival will go down in the same space over the same weekend.
The only remaining question here: will GZA invite Killah Priest to play Liquid Swords' closing track "B.I.B.L.E." It's definitely not Liquid Swords without that little slice of crazy. Hell, while I'm at it: how exactly do you perform Liquid Swords without like one half of the Wu-Tang Clan?
Maybe David Pajo can do all the other vocals. Duel of the iron mic!
