2006 Intonation Music Festival
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Intonation Music Festival (IMF) announces 2006 Curator and Festival Dates-
June 24th and 25th at Chicago’s Union Park.
Bloc Party and The Streets Confirmed Headliners.
Event to be curated by VICE Records.
Chicago IL - March 9, 2006 - This year’s annual Intonation Music Festival will take place June 24th and 25th, 2006 at Chicago’s beautiful Union Park. Once again featuring 20+ bands on alternating stages, this year’s IMF will kick off Chicago’s festival season in June, ensuring the only intense heat comes from the music.
This year’s IMF will be curated by VICE Records, part of the New York-based media empire known for cutting-edge music and publishing. The two-day concert will be headlined by VICE Records artists Bloc Party, making their triumphant return to Chicago after selling over 250,000 copies in the US of their debut Silent Alarm, and The Streets, making their only Chicago appearance in support of their new album, The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living. Additional performances by many more of the best up-and-coming artists from around the world, hand-picked by VICE Records, will be announced in the weeks to come.
In addition, the festival will be sponsored in part by influential radio station KEXP. Widely considered the gold standard for independent music on the Internet, KEXP will help preview this year’s festival and spread the word about our latest developments.
Tickets will be $20 for a one-day pass and $35 for a two-day pass. A limited number of 2-day passes will go on sale Monday, March 13, 2006 at 12 PM CST through www.intonationmusicfest.com for the special price of $25.
The 2005 IMF, curated by Pitchforkmedia.com, was an unqualified success, packing Union Park with 30,000 concertgoers over two days and receiving glowing accolades in the New York Times, Billboard, Rolling Stone, Spin, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune and scores of other publications.
Visit www.intonationmusicfest.com for ticketing and line-up updates.
“A band roster that will pass any record-store clerk’s hipness test.”
- Rolling Stone
“Hands down, easily the best outdoor music festival I’ve ever attended.â€
- Jim DeRogatis, Chicago Sun-Times
“[A] most amazingly positive and joyous experience.”
- Pitchforkmedia.com
“The weekend — full of people wandering around clutching vinyl records and silk-screened tote bags — felt a bit like a throwback to the mid-1990s, when fans and fanzines supported a community of musicians too weird for the mainstream…By weekend’s end, it was clear Intonation had succeeded on its own terms.”
- Kelefah Sanneh, New York Times
