The 2008 Pitchfork Music Festival lineup is looking pretty damn good:

SATURDAY, JULY 19
Animal Collective
Jarvis Cocker
The Hold Steady
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Vampire Weekend
No Age
Atlas Sound
Dizzee Rascal
Extra Golden
Fleet Foxes
Elf Power
Caribou
Ruby Suns
Fuck Buttons
Jay Reatard
Icy Demons
A Hawk and a Hacksaw
Boban Markovic Orkestar
Titus Andronicus

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Super rad independent label Merge Records, home to such stellar outfits as Spoon, Portastatic and M. Ward, will be celebrating Record Store Day (Saturday, April 19th) by doling out free 7-inch vinyl records at participating independent establishments. The album will consist of unreleased tracks from Destroyer and Wye Oak.

If there are any independent record stores left in your city, do yourself a solid and support them.

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