You Don't Bend Spoon with Your Mind, Spoon Bends You.

By embracing you with hard rocking hands, petting your head with beats, and letting you know in a sweet falsetto voice that the rocking will never stop, Spoon bends you into believing that everything is going to be okay. Even in the hot hot sun, even when the only food you can afford is roasted corn, even when they have David Cross do an interpretive dance of one of their songs and he shows the entire audience his ass, you know that the rocking will never stop.

It is also noteworthy that this was the last show "for a while" with bassist Joshua Zarbo. Lead singer Britt Daniel said that Josh had tried to quit the band before and had always come back. In the last chorus of the last song "Sister Jack," he teased his bass player by singing "You'll be back." Britt laughed and gave him a hug on stage.

Mates of State Pay Homage to Ice Cube/Get Cutesy on Stage

A lot of high school kids got really big eyes and got really excited during this show. The Mates dedicated a song to Ice Cube who apparently was on the plane with them. Then things got a little weird. While playing their cutesy positive music, they started bantering with each other. They thanked Zero 7 for the "guitar" that they borrowed (shhhh! It was a keyboard!) then talked about a tiff they had while watching a skipping DVD that ended in Jason licking Kori's face for a half an hour. As the banter continued, Kori grew tired of Jason's comments and cut him off several times by playing her keyboard loudly. I can't wait till they have kids.

By the way, if you want Mates of State to play a song for you, compliment Kori's shoes. She will totally hook you up.

CocoRosie: Are they on drugs or what?

CocoRosie started the "Cow Says Moo" toy which signifies the beginning of what some might call their hit single "Terrible Angels," and the crowd went crazy. The two sisters have amazing voices and to hear them sing together is a beautiful thing. What is better is that they sing songs about Hitler, rape, kittens, and being a good housewife. What is even better is that their current live show includes two outstanding beat box artists. Adding hiphop beats to their sound, layered with toy sounds, reverberating and boxed-in voices is an odd and perfect way for a strange show to connect with the audience.

They did look a tad disorganized, however. The atrocious sound check took 20 minutes and put them 10 minutes late for their start time. They had elements of a great stage show, but couldn't quite pull it together. The audience was unable to see any of the cool toys they played with, and the dancing they performed on stage was a little too incestuous. They looked like they were dancing to get freaky with each other and not to entertain the audience. At one point the visual presence matched the music when Sierra put on a white mask and a silver Yankee cap and sang to the audience in her opera voice, but then they got back to being a little disorganized.