Boygenius Prefaces Coachella and a Slate of Summer Touring With Thrilling Warmup Gig in Pomona: Concert Review
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic When Variety asked the members of Boygenius in an interview earlier this month about the setlists for their upcoming shows, they made it clear — no solo material, just band stuff, because that’s sufficient to fill festival-length sets anyway.
On top of that, perhaps unspoken is the idea that keeping to Boygenius selections helps keep everything democratic, which would become just a little tougher if suddenly “Kyoto” earned the supergroup’s loudest roar out on the road each night.
But the trio is doing some headlining shows this spring and summer, outside of festival dates. Do they really have enough in their arsenal from 2018’s initial EP and the full album that just came out to make a full show feel like a full meal?
That question was answered pretty satisfactorily — OK, let’s say pretty magnificently — with Boygenius’ concert Wednesday night at the Fox Pomona Theatre in California’s Riverside County, which they proudly and not-very-nervously declared was their first concert since 2018. (This was true and not true: There was a 12-song benefit in San Francisco at a sub-400-seater last year… and hey, what about that cheeky busking at the Austin airport terminal during SXSW arrivals?
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