Photo of 2009 Pitchfork festival in Chicago (Jim Kopeny)

Pitchfork, that music website that your Dad occasionally checks out to find "cool new bands," is teaming up with Bowery Presents to create a new music festival in New York City. Called "Pitchfork Presents: Forms," the event is scheduled for next February and will include between 50 to 70 acts, "all in the indie vein." "We've been strategizing for a number of years on how we could come up and do a festival that was impactful and unique," Pitchfork president Christopher Kaskie tells the Times. So, the exact opposite of what the name "Pitchfork Presents: Forms" implies?

Unlike Pitchfork's annual outdoor festival in Chicago, New York's verson will be spread out over the Bowery Presents venues and other galleries and museums, a la CMJ. People will have the opportunity to get tickets to single events or passes for the entire event. Pitchfork announced this summer that they'd created a festival in Paris, and the (somewhat controversial) Altered Zones network is having one at the New Museum on October 22 for CMJ.