It was flattering to see a few YouTubes of last weekend's Pitchfork Music Festival popping up on blogs, but over the next few days, Pitchfork.tv will have something even better: high-quality videos from every night of the Festival, taken straight from the live feed. First up is three performances from Friday night's Don't Look Back event, co-presented by UK-based concert-throwers All Tomorrow's Parties.

We begin with Public Enemy. We heard a great many sets described as a favorite over the weekend, but one thing that everyone seemed to agree on is that Public Enemy absolutely killed it with their live version of It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. "Rebel Without a Pause" gives a good idea of how it went down.

Just before P.E., indie rock royalty Sebadoh performed their transitional Sub Pop LP Bubble and Scrape. Lou Barlow, Jason Lowenstein, and Eric Gaffney were all on hand, but Barlow performed his ballad "Think (Let Tomorrow Bee)" all by his lonesome, just the way it ought to be.

And kicking off Friday night was Mission of Burma, who tore up Union Park at the Pitchfork Festival two years ago, this time doing their album Vs. That album's moody builder "Trem Two" is a key piece of the 1980s underground puzzle. Stay tuned for more videos here on Forkcast and on Pitchfork.tv.  

Way the hell back in November 2006, you may recall us running an item about Scottish rockers Franz Ferdinand laying an exclusive song called "Hallam Foe Dandelion Blow" on the soundtrack to David Mackenzie's film Hallam Foe.

Well hey, that jam and the soundtrack it's featured on-- which also includes tunes from a ton of Franz's fellow Domino artists-- will finally be released via Domino in the States on September 9. Woo!

However, something to note: in every other country in the world, the film is called Hallam Foe, seeing as it's based on Peter Jinks' novel of the same title, and Hallam is the main character's first name. In the U.S., however, where the film will be released September 5? They're calling it Mister Foe. Makes you proud, don't it?

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Re-working an existing track is primarily about listening-- the best remixers hear something inside of a song not being served by the original version. In the case of Animal Collective's remix of Goldfrapp's "Little Bird", they heard something several shades darker than the urban moodscape of the original, something filled with mystery and maybe a touch of desperation. Stripping away most of the music in favor of a slowly accumulating web of percussion and noise, the track becomes a spooky campfire song for a Blair Witch kind of night.

[from the "Caravan Girl" single; out now on Mute]

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