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Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago, 7/19/08

Day 2 started out raining, then out came the sun and the humidity. Jarvis Cocker worked the big festival stage, No Age threw a dance party on a smaller stage and the Hold Steady "stayed positive" during its set. Along the way there were mud dancers and more than a few fashion Do's and Don'ts. Photos by Keegan Hamilton and Nick Lucchesi.

By Keegan Hamilton

!!! performing and engaging a big ass-shaking party.

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By Keegan Hamilton

Fleet Foxes perform during the 3 p.m. hour. The band's four and five-part harmonies translated surprisingly well in the festival atmosphere. Read the review here.

By Keegan Hamilton

The rain turned one of the baseball fields at Chicago's Union Park into a mess of mud, sand and wood chips. This group would get dirtier as the day progressed.

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By Nick Lucchesi

Washing off at the FUZE hydration tent.

By Nick Lucchesi

Fashion Do: Short shorts or basketball jersey. Fashion Don't: Wear both at the same time, looking like a pudgy member of the 1981 Los Angeles Lakers.

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By Nick Lucchesi

There was no one standing within 20 feet of this guy.

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By Nick Lucchesi

About 17,000 people filed through the gates of Pitchfork Music Festival on Saturday. Here is the line to get in the front gate about 11 a.m.

By Nick Lucchesi

Covered in mud.

By Keegan Hamilton

British rapper Dizzee Rascal.

By Nick Lucchesi

Caribou's normally icy songs felt warmer to the early afternoon crowd. Maybe because during their set, the sun came out.

By Nick Lucchesi

Two concert-goers.

By Nick Lucchesi

Jarvis Cocker jumped, kicked and strutted his way across the festival stage. He handled the stage with a familiar feel compared to some of the more inexperienced bands on the day's line up.

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By Nick Lucchesi

The Hold Steady played during the 7 p.m. time slot, opening up with "Constructive Summer," the first song off its new record Stay Positive.

By Nick Lucchesi

Concert-goers in the early evening.

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By Keegan Hamilton

This group took a moment to dance in the soggy infield of the festival grounds.

By Nick Lucchesi

Do you think these friends woke up Saturday and planned to dress on disparate ends of the hipster fashion spectrum? For both, it seems to work.

By Nick Lucchesi

Vampire Weekend played during the 5 p.m. time slot. Here, singer Ezra Koenig motions to the audience before the band began its set.

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By Nick Lucchesi

LA noise-dance duo No Age threw a party on the third and smallest stage about 8:30 p.m. Saturday. A security guard tries to keep the crowd under control.