![]() The fact that the husband-and-wife team from New Orleans can also play catchy off-kilter music - “Why’d You Make It Weird?” says everything you need to know about them - only added to the fun. Lots of weirdos: Quintron and Miss Pussycat did something I’d never before seen on a rock festival stage: They opened their set with a 10-minute puppet show, the demented kind, a kissing cousin of stuff you might have seen on Pee-Wee’s Playhouse before he was on TV. KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas: The Offspring, Garbage, 311 and more rip through Kia Forum That the songs are in fact often melancholy only added to the beauty of its set. ![]() My favorite, though, was Big Thief, a folk-tinged rock group whose singer Adrianne Lenker has one of those voices that can break your heart no matter the words she’s singing. punk act,offers a harder, more traditionally British take on that genre. trio fronted by the charismatic Clementine Creevy, works in a punkish style, while Shame, a young U.K. More rock than Coachella: Given that the desert classic doesn’t have a lot of rock it’s easy to estimate that there was a greater percentage of the bill at Music Tastes Good working in this vein. Elsewhere the Bay Area oddball Lil B the Based God was his usual entertaining self, and Joey BadA$$ served as co-headliner on the second stage though I missed him for New Order. Lots of hip-hop: Princess Nokia had a raucous crowd dancing to her hip-hop including a toddler on her dad’s shoulders who I’m hopeful does not sing the lyrics to “Tomboy” when she returns to preschool on Monday. When Santigold invited fans to crash the stage to dance with her at least 75 or 100 took her up on it, only adding to the madness of it all. ![]() And the sense of fun only increased when her crew threw not just beach balls but pool-float-sized inflatable slices of pizza, watermelon, donuts and pretzels into the crowd (though you did have to avoid getting bonked in the head for the next 30 minutes). Original members Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert and newer additions Tom Chapman and Phil Cunningham returned for an encore of Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart” which capped a set you wished were longer with the biggest sing-along of the night.Ī dance party: Singer Santigold arrived on stage as usual with her two deadpan dancers beside her but her infectious blend of new wave, reggae, and electro-pop kept a smile on her face throughout her performance. “Your Silent Face” and Bizarre Love Triangle” showed up early, earning huge cheers from the crowd, while “Blue Monday” and “Temptation” closed out the main set. The band opened with “Singularity” off its strong 2015 album “Music Complete,” but most of the set was pulled from albums across its 30-year history. Past headliners such as Ween and Sleater-Kinney a year ago, and the Specials a year before that, were solid if a bit more cult faves in 2017, and nostalgic in 2016.īut New Order, despite having been around since the early ’80s when it formed out of the ashes of Joy Division, is a band of a different magnitude, which was clear not only in the strength of its music over 11 songs in 70 minutes, but also in its production, the most advanced visuals and lighting ever on a Music Tastes Good stage. ![]() The arrival of the New Order on stage as headliner of Day 1 of Music Tastes Good on Saturday not only delivered a thrilling set of electronic rock from the beloved British band, it signaled that the Long Beach festival had stepped up a new level in this its third year.
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