Impose Magazine — Pitchfork's annual music festival took place this past weekend in Chicago. Here are pics from Friday, July 15 with the usual suspects like Animal Collective, Guided By Voices, and James Blake. See more images from this post. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Dominick Mastrangelo Neko Case Bob Pollard of Guided By Voices James Blake The 2011 Pitchfork Festival continues through Sunday at Union Park in Chicago. Some of it is streaming online. A set of pictures from Friday continues below...... more info

XLR8R — In this interesting piece from Amoeba Music's What's In My Bag series—in which the West Coast music retailer talks to contemporary artists about the music and movies they purchase while in town—UK post-dubstep posterboy James Blake c... more info

Stereogum — Last night James Blake made his American television debut with a performance of “The Wilhelm Scream” on Jimmy Fallon. Blake pulls a Pecknold when it’s time to shake Fallon’s hand. (Via The Audio Perv) James Blake is out now via Atlas/A&M. If ... more info

Guardian Music — The xx won it last year. Elbow won it in 2008. But in-between Speech Debelle picked up the Mercury prize, and what's happened to her?This week Alexis Petridis is joined by Rebecca Nicholson and Ruth Barnes. They look at the odds and try to predict wh... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Bao Nguyen "One of the sickest shows I have ever been too, James Blake blew the roof that bitch." - Lily Nunez "My teeth are vibrating. At James Blake in Webster Hall" - Brennan Moore "Seeing James Blake... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — James Blake @ LPR in May (more by David Andrako) Wild Beasts @ Highline Ballroom in 2010 (more by Amanda Hatfield) today in NYC * Darius Jones Trio @ Barbes * Midsummer Night Swing * The Persuasions @ 92YTribeca *... more info

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XLR8R — It was only last week when we announced that James Blake was readying a single for Untold's Hemlock imprint (artwork above), and today both sides of the forthcoming release have found their way to the world wide web for all to stream. read more more info

Guardian Music — No voice. Out on an indie. Yes, James Blake's going back to his roots, compressed sonic stutters and allThis new double A-side single from James Blake sees him look back to his origins, with the vinyl-only Order/Pan coming out through Hemlock, which ... more info