The most important news on Estrella Damm Primavera Sound this year is the addition of a stage curated by the prestigious musical website, Pitchfork Media, which is the current music referent of a whole generation. Besides their influential website, Pitchfork has expanded its activities in the recent years, creating an online TV (Pitchfork.tv), and a festival that takes place in Chicago during the month of July (Pitchfork Festival). Last year Pitchfork has also made its entrance into the publishing world with "The Pitchfork 500 - Our Guide to the greatest songs from Punk to the Present".

The collaboration with the american website will ensure the presence of the best new bets in the worldwide indie scene in Barcelona, always along with the philosophy of the festival and the particular style parameters that have made of Pitchfork a platform for the most innovating proposals. It's not in vain that the first appearances in the mass media for bands like Arcade Fire, Animal Collective or Bon Iver were through this website and even part of the success they have, was built through the unconditional support of their editorial line. With the intention to take profit of that mediatic echo, the Pitchfork stage will give a space for the most exciting local proposals of the moment.

Vivian Girls' and Wavves' fuzz pop, the shoegaze pop flavorings of Crystal Stilts, The Tallest Man On Earth's swedish folk, the new sounds from Baltimore distilled by Ponytail, the powerful psychedelia of Crystal Antlers, Kevin Martin's The Bug, in which he collides dancehall, grime, noise and dubstep in one of the records of the year, the folk pop of Bowerbirds, the spectacular live set of the experimental punk band The Mae Shi's, and Plants & Animals from Canada, conform this new gang of confirmed bands. All of them will perform on the stage Pitchfork is curating for Estrella Damm Primavera Sound 2009, which will take place from May 28th to May 30th in Barcelona's Parc Del Fòrum.

To these bands, we must add the artists previously confirmed: My Bloody Valentine, who will perform twice at the festival, the space rock of the british band Spiritualized, the songwriter from Seattle Damien Jurado, the New Yorkers of Gang Gang Dance, the intimate folk singer Alela Diane on her first visit to Barcelona, the british pianist Michael Nyman, Extra Life presenting their debut album "Secular Works", the rockabilly of the very young brothers Kitty, Daisy and Lewis, the bond between pop and punk rock performed by the americans The Soft Pack, also from the U.S. Throwing Muses and the indie cult band, The Vaselines.

Next Thursday January 15th is the last day to buy at the price of 90€ (subject to booking fee) the full festival ticket, which will cost 115€ (subject to booking fee) from January 16th. The tickets can be purchased at the following sale outlets: Tick Tack Ticket network, Cd Drome stores in Barcelona and Madrid, Seetickets UK, Fnac France and PayPal in the official website of the festival.