Wait for the Summer Good Friend

Lollapalooza, Coachella, ACL -

What's wrong with a music festival in the dead of winter? The bare skeleton trees with that little bit of snow, the big jackets and listening to Yo La Tengo or Broken Social Scene...Wouldn't that be great?

In the trend of music festivals taking place in a windless, hell heat - this year's Pitchfork Music Festival is starting to shape up into something amazing.

Yeasayer, Blitzen Trapper, Plants & Animals and Women just added to the un-penetrable wall of Chicago heat. It's worth going, but bring a fan, a rain dance, and linens. Extra towels too.

Also, if you haven't seen Yeasayer or Plants & Animals live - please do so. Simply put, they make world-savvy rock with bright harmonies and simple lyrics:

"It takes a good friend / To say you've got your head up your ass / It takes an enemy / To help you get out of bed"

(Above image taken from the evilly hot 2007 summer at Austin City Limits)

Yeasayer - Wait for the Summer

Plants & Animals - Good Friend