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Video: Genius/GZA: "Duel of the Iron Mic" (Live at the Pitchfork Music Festival)

On Friday it was announced that Pitchfork will co-curate the All Tomorrow's Parties festival, happening May 2008 in England. Needless to say, we're psyched to be teaming up again with our friends in London to help present some amazing music. To celebrate the announcement here on Forkcast, we're going to be rolling out videos from this year's Pitchfork Music Festival on Tuesdays and Fridays over the next few weeks.

We begin with a performance from our festival's presentation of Don't Look Back, the event that brought ATP and Pitchfork together. Don't Look Back is a series of shows started by All Tomorrow's Parties in which artists recreate classic albums in their entirety on stage, and Pitchfork worked with ATP for a special event on Friday evening. Slint played Spiderland to open and Sonic Youth played Daydream Nation to close. In between was the Wu-Tang Clan's resident genius GZA, presenting his dense lyrical masterpiece Liquid Swords. Here he is on "Duel of the Iron Mic". Stay tuned for more. Thanks to Optimus for all their help. 

[original track from Liquid Swords; out now on Geffen]

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