Music agenda: new remixes from Radiohead, Pitchfork celebrates indie music

Thousands of indie music fans will flock to Chicago for the Pitchfork Music Festival, featuring Fleet Foxes and Animal Collective. Classical music lovers can enjoy a month of musical offerings at Austria's Salzburg Festival, beginning July 27.

 

Radiohead's 'The King of Limbs' remix vinyls
July 14
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The second vinyl release in British rock group Radiohead's summer remix series drops on July 14 and features "Morning Mr. Magpie" by English electronic artist Nathan Fake and two remixes of "Bloom" by Australian electro producer Mark Pritchard. The series of 12-inch vinyls features fresh takes of tracks from the band's latest and eighth album, The King of Limbs, by a range of electronic artists and DJs. The LP has reached the top ten in album charts in 21 countries.
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6th Pitchfork Music Festival
July 15-17
Chicago, Illinois, US
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Fleet Foxes, Animal Collective, and TV on the Radio are taking the main stage at this year's three-day Pitchfork Music Festival. The festival is a leading annual event for indie music lovers, now entering its sixth year, and is set to take place in Chicago's Union Park. Other acts in the lineup include James Blake, Toro y Moi, Guided by Voices, Das Racist, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Cut Copy, Deerhunter, Destroyer, and Yuck, among many others. Single-day tickets cost $45 (€32) and are available at Ticketweb.com. Pitchfork began its festival webcast four years ago, alongside several other festivals who now do their own live streams. While details have yet to be announced regarding the webcast, stay tuned to the website. Other international festivals catering to indie-lovers and eschewing corporate sponsorship include Barcelona's Primavera Sound (July 27-28) and UK's All Tomorrow's Parties (July 23 and 24).
http://pitchforkmusicfestival.com
For tickets: http://www.ticketweb.com/
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Watch Fleet Foxes' clip for "Grown Ocean" from their latest album, Helplessness Blues: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgv6dKV03dA


91st Salzburg Festival
July 27-August 30
Salzburg, Austria

The oldest and one of the most prestigious festivals in Europe will feature 185 performances at 14 venues in the three performing arts genres: opera, concerts, and drama. Operatic productions will include premieres, new productions, and re-stagings of baroque classics; theater highlights include premieres of new dramas by German playwrights Roland Schimmelpfennig and Peter Handke and new stagings of classics by Goethe and Shakespeare. Concerts will include performances by the Vienna Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, and select guest orchestras as well as featured soloist concerts. For tickets and subscription prices, check the website.
http://www.salzburgerfestspiele.at
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Fuji Rock
July 29-31
Naeba Ski Resort, Japan
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One of the longest-running music festivals in Japan opens over the last weekend in July as the Fuji Rock Festival returns to its old stomping ground at the Naeba Ski Resort, with 100,000 music-lovers expected this year. Headlining before 40,000 fans on the Green Stage will be performers such as Arctic Monkeys, Asian Dub Foundation, Big Audio Dynamite, The Chemical Brothers and Coldplay. Feeder and Fountains of Wayne are also on the schedule, along with Incubus, Wilco, The Kills, Mogwai, Tangerine Dream and The Sisters of Mercy. Tickets priced at 39,800 JPY (around €341) for a three-day ticket.
http://www.fujirockfestival.com
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11th Splendour in the Grass
July 29-31
Byron Bay, Australia 
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Australia's innovatively green Splendour in the Grass at Byron Bay unfurls its flag July 29-31, featuring Kanye West, Coldplay and 79 other acts on three stages. As in 2009 and 2010, tickets for the event sold out in just a few hours, but resale tickets are available. Tickets range from AUD$401.50 to AUD$525.60 (around €290 to €380). The Splendour festival combines a relatively small capacity (only 15,000 tickets every year, in comparison to the notorious Big Day Out with upwards of 50,000) with a collection of headline acts that come for the festival and stay for the weekend. Other acts included in the lineup are Jane's Addiction, The Hives, The Kills, Cut Copy, James Blake, Thievery Corporation, and DJ Shadow. Tickets are available through Moshtix: http://www.moshtix.com.au. To learn more about the lineup and event details: http://splendourinthegrass.com.
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20th Lollapalooza
August 5-7
Grant Park, Chicago, US
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Eminem, Muse, Coldplay, and Foo Fighters are expected to take the stage at this year's Lollapalooza. Now in its 20th year, this year the festival will be two days and not three, and for the first time this year the event expanded internationally, with a festival in Santiago, Chile, this past spring. Other acts set to perform include My Morning Jacket, Cee Lo Green, Deadmau5, Ween, The Kills, and White Lies, among many others. Only single day passes are still available at $90.
http://www.lollapalooza.com
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18th Sziget Festival
August 8-15
Budapest, Hungary
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Running since 1993, the Sziget Festival is one of the largest music and cultural fests held in Europe, attracting hundreds of thousands of concertgoers in recent years. In 2011, the festival hosts Pulp, Interpol, Thirty Seconds to Mars, The Chemical Brothers, Kasabian, Afrocubism, Dizzie Rascal, The National, La Roux, and many others. Sziget is held on Óbudai-sziget ("Old-Buda Island") in Budapest and is part of the long list of big outdoor festivals held in Europe along with Glastonbury, Reading and Leads, Roskilde and Rock Werchter. Day tickets are priced at €45.
http://www.sziget.hu/festival_english
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