Rilo Kiley's meeting is just in time just like the sky

“Can you believe,” Jenny Lewis asked, “this is our third show in 17 years?”

Using the same outfit he had used in the first two: mini-dash of lunar, white socks with flyers, a bright tiara inn on his head), Lewis was on stage on Saturday night with his band Rilo Kiley at Just Like Heaven Festival in Pasadena.

“It is really surprising to be here with all of you,” he told the multitude of thousands extended by the lush lands surrounding the Rose Bowl. “But above all,” he added, resorting to his bandmates, “it is surprising to be here with you all.”

Jenny Lewis acts.

(Eric Thayer/for times)

One of the Rock bands of Los Angeles of the last quarter, Rilo Kiley, was formed in 1998, both Lewis and the other singer and composer of the group, Blake Sennett, had been children's actors of children of the next decade constantly approaching the great moment with intelligent songs if sex songs, decisions and the Hollywood dream machine. However, just when the band was prepared to explode, Rilo Kiley separated in the midst of creative and personal tensions between Lewis and Sennett, who had also been romantically involved. Now, for the first time since 2008, the group, rounded by Pierre de Reeder and Jason Boesel, is on the road playing shows again; His meeting tour was launched last week with concerts in San Luis Obispo and Ojai and is scheduled to run during autumn.

The moment makes sense, since Lewis in the intermediate years has become a kind of older sister figure for a later generation or two young intelligent musicians who write about all ways in which the world can disappoint a 20 -year -old woman. (Think of Phoebe Bridgers, think of Haim, think of Olivia Rodrigo).

On the other hand, nostalgia is rarely required to justify, as the sky made it clear. A landscape match of the Festival of Southern California since 2019, this annual show brings together veterans of the indie rock of the early 2000s to relive the memories of an era before transmission and social networks redo pop music; Other high acts in the bill this year included Vampire Weekend, TV on the radio, the block party, the battery and bull and Moi.

Ezra Koenig de Vampire Weekend is presented.

Near the end of his main set on Saturday, Vampire Weekend offered what leader Ezra Koenig called “Salute to indie”: covers of the time successes of Phoenix, Tame Impala, Beach House, Grizzly Bear and TV on the radio, in a slot as Don't Stop Breed '”or” Bailing on the radio. Grizzly Bear's “two weeks” now describe how a classic was a fact that no one seemed to need convincing.

In fact, Lewis has said that part of what took her to Reconvene Rilo Kiley was the great success of a recent postal service meeting, the Side Electro-pop project that she and Death Cab for Ben Gibbard de Cutie presented in 2003 and that last year headed just as the sky after selling three nights in the Hollywood Bowl.

However, if all that enthusiasm to remember he did on Saturday in a set of one hour that showed the impressive versatility of the band.

Tunde Adebimpe acts with TV on the radio.

“The execution of all things” and “with extended arms” were crisp Torch song he found in “I Never”, about a woman who bet too much in a relationship and the perfectly soap romantic drama of “Do you love you?” in which he plays two of the three parties in a condemned love triangle. For the latter, he took a video camera and wandered the stage, sending images of his bandmates to the giant screen behind her, not only the star of the Rilo Kiley show, but also its director.

In Spotify, the biggest song of the band is the “Silver Lining” frantically safe, of its dark and fun final LP, “Under the Blacklight”, and here Lewis delivered it with an indifferent displacement. But the true bosses know that the Real de Rilo Kiley should have been the Hit-A-Hit was “2004 portions of 2004,” the conversation leads to play / and the moving leads to sex “, goes a key line, so the group ended with the song in the same sky.

As he spent the stage, Lewis flew a kiss to the crowd, then jumped back to his microphone, he grabbed a model he had left behind and took a sip through a straw.

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