Juice Williams is great, but he’s not the only reason to head downstate this fall. The Pygmalion Music Festival hits Champaign-Urbana (the home of Parasol Records, Polyvinyl Records and REO Speedwagon, among others) for the fifth year September 16-19, and it’s got an expanded lineup this year, with 15 venues hosting over 100 performers, including Iron & Wine, RJD2, Lucero, Low and The Books. You know what 15 venues means, don’t you? No porta-potties.
Now that we’ve got you interested, check out the full schedule after the jump. Since we know how much you love to support local acts, we’ve starred the Chicago acts for you. Festival passes start at $60.
Pygmalion Music Festival 2009 Schedule:
WEDNESDAY
Canopy Club, 708 S. Goodwin
8:30 PM Common Loon
9:30 PM Mt. St. Helen’s Vietnam Band
10:00 PM Owen*
11:00 PM Japandroids
12:00 AM Headlights
1:00 AM Physical Challenge DJs
THURSDAY
Blues BBQ, 1103 W. Oregon
11:45 AM Liesel Booth
12:30 PM Pamela Machala
Sandella’s, 700 S. Gregory
12:45 PM Tracey and Tricia
1:30 PM Stanton McConnell
2:15 PM Cara Maurizi
Red Herring, 1209 W. Oregon
6:00 PM Morgan Orion and The Constellations
7:00 PM My Dear Alan Andrews
8:00 PM Post Historic
9:00 PM Early Day Miners
10:00 PM World’s First Flying Machine
Krannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody
6:40 PM Liz Janes
7:20 PM Brooke Wagonner
8:00 PM Denison Witmer
8:45 PM My Brightest Diamond
9:45 PM William Fitzsimmons
10:45 PM Bob Nanna*
Courtyard Cafe, 1401 W. Green
7:30 PM Butterfly Assassins*
8:30 PM TBD
9:30 PM Starfucker
Canopy Club
6:20 PM Ohtis
7:00 PM Santa
7:40 PM Mason Proper
8:20 PM Company of Thieves*
9:00 PM Elsinore
9:40 PM Joe Pug*
10:30 PM Decibully
11:10 PM Margot and The Nuclear So and So’s*
12:10 AM Maserati
1:00 AM Lucero
The Highdive, 51 E. Main
9:00 PM DJ Substr8
10:00 PM DJ Belly
11:00 PM DJ Mertz
12:00 AM Skream
FRIDAY
Blues BBQ
11:30 AM Girls Next Door
12:00 PM Ryan Groff
12:45 PM William Fitzsimmons
7:00 PM The Jips
8:00 PM Empires*
9:00 PM jigGsaw
10:00 PM So Many Dynamos
11:00 PM So Long Forgotten
Sandella’s
12:45 PM Final Pygmalion Effect
1:30 PM Matt Wagemann
2:15 PM Kilroy et al
Channing-Murray, 1209 W. Oregon
6:30 PM You and Yourn
7:15 PM Hathaways
8:00 PM Good Night and Good Morning
9:00 PM Low
Red Herring
10:30 PM Comedians: Jon Hansen, Pat Deane, Devin Bockrath, Collin Bullock, Trey Mowder, Billi Casey, The Tuttle Brothers.
Canopy Club
6:20 PM Zach May and The Maps
7:00 PM Ganglians
7:40 PM Phantogram
8:20 PM BLK JKS
9:00 PM Jookabox
9:40 PM Maps & Atlases*
10:30 PM Pomegranates
11:10 PM The Antlers
12:10 AM Autolux
1:00 AM Wavves
Courtyard Cafe
7:30 PM Pet Lions*
8:30 PM Oceans
9:30 PM Solid Gold
Cowboy Monkey, 6 E. Taylor
10:00 PM Angie Heaton
11:00 PM Mazes
12:00 AM Cameron McGill*
1:00 AM The 1900s*
Mike N’ Molly’s, 105 N. Market
5:15 PM The Delta Kings
6:15 PM The Duke of Uke
7:15 PM The Number One Sons
8:15 PM Tina Sparkle
9:15 PM Gentleman Auction House
10:15 PM Light Pollution
11:15 PM Neoga Blacksmith
Bentley’s, 419 N. Neil
9:30 PM Village*
10:30 PM The Horns of Happiness
11:30 PM Alpha Mile
12:30 AM Golden Quality
SATURDAY
Parasol Records, 303 W. Griggs
TBD Afternoon Sets
Exile on Main St, 1 E. Main
TBD Afternoon Sets
Courtyard Cafe
5:00 PM The Daredevil Christopher Wright
6:00 PM Lymbyc Systym
7:00 PM Brighton, MA*
Krannert Art Museum
7:30 PM The Books
8:45 PM Iron and Wine
10:00 PM Princeton
11:00 PM Ra Ra Riot
Canopy Club
9:00 PM Physical Challenge DJs
10:45 PM YACHT
11:30 PM The Hood Internet*
12:30 AM RJD2
Red Herring
10:00 PM On Again Off Again
11:00 PM Now Now Every Children
12:00 AM Drew Danburry
1:00 AM Sunset Stallion
Cowboy Monkey
10:00 PM Lonely Trailer
11:00 PM The Horse’s Ha*
12:00 AM Gazelle
1:00 AM New Ruins
Mike N’ Molly’s
10:15 PM Tyson and The Friction
11:15 PM Steel Eater
12:15 AM Scurvine
1:15 AM The Life and Times
Bentley’s
10:30 PM Take Care
11:30 PM Marmoset
12:30 AM Mordechai in the Mirror
