Rain delays Pitchfork opening; Outer Minds, Lower Dens kick off fest

Even as gray skies, muggy atmosphere and rain made for a bleak opening Friday to the Pitchfork Music Festival in Union Park, the crowd waiting to enter the event was thousands deep along Ashland Avenue. Inside, puddles formed on the field and crews urgently mopped the stages. The music would have to wait, the first opening-day delay in the festival’s seven-year history.

Greg Kot

July 13, 2012