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Scene report: Neon Indian
Low-profile Brooklyn/Austin band Neon Indian got lucky twice: Once when the Raveonnettes canceled their gig at the last minute due to visa problems,giving them a 1:15pm berth at the xBox360 stage, and once when they managed to avoid any real rain.
A bunch of the crowd, perhaps unaware that the Raveonnettes weren’tplaying, fled virtually the moment the synth-pop/rock quartet started up (an annoying high-pitched synth line surely didn’t help), but everyone who stayed got into the band’s frantic techno groove, which was a nice warmup for !!!, who had a set immediately afterward one stage over.
Extra fashion points to the band’s female keyboardist, who had her hair done up in purple with widow’s peak bangs — a riff, if memory serves, on the old British sci-fi show ‘UFO.’
In any case, band leader Alan Palomo sure won’t stay low-profile much longer.
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