Okay Day 1 Treasure Island did its thing...Mstrkraft was better than expected and probably had the best show...especially considering the Queen ending...super epic sing along. MGMT was alright but playing their album front to back was an unwise call and showed they had a lot of room to grow in their stage presence/ performance.
Day 2 came out and kicked some serious amounts of ass. Grizzly Bear was relatively boring despite excellent sound quality (just not that exciting). Beirut was charming and played some fun and interesting music. The Walkmen rocked out in normal very loud style and played the Rat so they were pretty good. The Decemberists played a set that was easily a headliner, they had a full animated story going on behind the show and were dead on the whole time. I could have easily been happy with their performance as a headliner as they abandoned their usual folksy, soft sound for a little more energy. I didn't head over to Yo la Tengo but apparently they played Stockholm Syndrome so plus there. But The Flaming Lips were uncomparable...they sucked the whole audience in for the whole show, played pretty much only songs the whole crowd knew and shot off more confetti per capita than any other band. From the moment they were birthed from a psycodelic vagina to the last refrain of Do You Realize I didn't feel my exhausted feet and was happy to be in the crowd generally half dancing (not enough room...sardine like packing). Wayne is my hero...Yoshimi battled robots... and there were tangerines for all. So awesome...so awesome
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