Photos: The Shins celebrate ‘Oh, Inverted World’ at the Orpheum
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The Shins celebrated the anniversary of their debut, “Oh, Inverted World,” by playing the album, and more, at Orpheum Theatre on Monday.
The Shins celebrated the anniversary of their debut, “Oh, Inverted World,” by playing the album, and more, at Orpheum Theatre on Monday.
Anchored by muscular sets from Interpol, Modest Mouse and Franz Ferdinand — and jolted by electric ones from M.I.A., Peaches and the Hives — the Just Like Heaven festival returned for the first time since 2019, bringing together Coachella alumni for a day in Pasadena.
The Just Like Heaven festival, which debuted in 2019, returns next May with a lineup topped by Interpol, Modest Mouse, the Shins and M.I.A.
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The late singer-songwriter and producer Richard Swift was celebrated by the likes of the Shins’ James Mercer, Nathaniel Rateliff, Cold War Kids, Foxygen, David Bazan and more on a night that achieved the perfect tenor.
At the sold-out Greek Theatre on Friday night, the Shins played five songs from their new album “Heartworms,” older favorites and one cover — a “kick-ass party jam.”
Also on Friday: The xx, Andrew W.K., Kali Uchis, Banks, Moon Taxi, Tennyson, Daniel Norgren, the Donkeys, Lila Downs, Krewella, Mura Masa, Sextile, Beachers, Black Joe Lewis, the Buttertones, Boyce Avenue
Incoming: Music Tastes Good, Mondo Cozmo, Bleachers, Paramore, Banks, Black Kids, Perfume Genius, Bonobo, Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Grizzly Bear, Facial, The xx, Kali Uchis, Interpol, Battles, Chelsea Wolfe, the Shins, Television, Lauren Ruth Ward, Happy Hollows, Ride, Haunted Summer, Imagine Dragons, Robyn Hitchcock, Nosaj Thing
Both enthusiasm and the temperature were high for Sunday’s second day of Arroyo Seco Weekend, capped by Mumford & Sons (and stolen by the Shins).
Kate Tucker and Ross Flournoy have had success writing music for film and television, but as Little Reader they score with the album “The Big Score,” out May 19.