The creators of my second favorite album of 2009, Bear in Heaven, (6:45 PM) come out in the late evening to turn us all into a wholehearted mess, no doubt. More bands no strangers to the pages of AD and the Sirius radio show are the Smith Westerns (4:45 PM) and Blues Explosion (5:15 PM). The Wu-Tang Clan’s Raekwon (4:15 PM) inhabits the afternoon hip-hop slot held by Pharoahe Monch last year and will no doubt keep energy high. So does Kurt Vile (2:50 PM), the tail end of whose set will draw some competition from Titus Andronicus (3:20 PM). One of the best bands to emerge from New Jersey in awhile, Real Estate (1:45 PM), comes out swinging in the afternoon. Saturday gets started at 1:00 PM with a band no stranger to AD, Free Energy. The night’s headliner is Modest Mouse (8:30 PM), a band that I have never seen live, so am greatly looking forward to finally catching. The always intriguing Liars (5:30 PM) go on to give a nice pre-dinner performance for people and, for dessert, Broken Social Scene (7:20 PM). It’s been a number of years since I last saw El-Producto, but he was an amazing performer then and no doubt now. In the realm of music, Tallest Man on Earth (4:00 PM) gets the festival off to a great start early on, but he’s sure to get some noise competition quickly as El-P (4:35 PM) takes his awesome show to the stage. I’m especially looking forward to The Daily Show‘s Wyatt Cenac (6:30 PM), The State/ Stella member Michael Showalter (7:15 PM) and the incomparable Eugene Mirman (8:00 PM). No gimmicks this year (like last year’s Write the Night fan requests or previous years’ Don’t Look Back-style complete album performances), but Friday does include a first: stand-up comedians. This year the festival goes back to a more traditional opening day lineup with an earlier start on Friday (3:30 PM CST). Once again, the opening day of the festival changes its focus. Below are a handful of the bands I’m most looking forward to catching if you’re looking to stalk and/or buy me beers. No promises that you won’t have to read the occasional tweet about lines at port-o-johns, but for the most part it’ll be live tweet reactions to the artists on stage and anything else awesome that goes down. I’ll be posting daily recaps of the previous day’s festivities here on AD as well as updating my personal Twitter account during the day. AD is once again heading to the Pitchfork Fest at Union Park in Chicago later this week.
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