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We continue our march toward the 2008 Pitchfork Music Festival with more visual recaps of last year's big bash. Starting us off is GZA, who brought a sizable crew that included later Wu inductee Cappadonna to rip through Liquid Swords. Here, they perform "Duel of the Iron Mic", some of them clad in special t-shirts made for the event. I said it then, and I'll say it again: I want one of those shirts.



Next up is a smooth little mid-afternoon run through the Junior Boys’ groovy “Under the Sun”. An appropriate tune for the balmy (but breezy!) summer setting; the band’s onstage getups, perhaps less so.

The New Pornographers closed their set out with a performance of "The Bleeding Heart Show", from 2005's Twin Cinema. Frontman Carl Newman starts the video by dedicating the song to "the yelling girl from the front row."

Next up is a group who'll be making their way toward this year's Pitchfork Music Festival, Fleet Foxes. The Seattle based country folkers turn in a claymation clip from their self-titled debut's "White Winter Hymnal" directed by Sean Pecknold, brother of the Foxes' own Robin Pecknold.

Finally, UK hip hopper Roots Manuva turns in a hyperkinetic, hypercolor clip for "Buff Nuff" from his forthcoming Slime and Reason LP. Everybody involved gets hopped up on sweet cream, and everybody winds up good and messy. Sounds like summer to us.