Intonation

This July, Pitchforkmedia's curmudgeons/snobs/
tastemakers curated their very first rock festival, uniting a scene that owes no small debt to the site's tireless cheerleading. Pfork-anointed acts including Les Savy Fav, the Decemberists, Death from Above 1979, the Wrens, Broken Social Scene, and Four Tet endured the heat along with thousands of shaggy Chicagoans, all united by a love of inscrutable Internet-based criticism. -Todd Goldstein