Re:SET Festival Puts Boygenius, LCD Soundsystem, Steve Lacy Through a Well-Oiled Revolving Door
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic The traveling carnival known as Re:SET is so set on putting a brand new spin on the festival experience that it’s not even using that particular F-word in its name or advertising.
Setting down at Brookside at the Rose Bowl over the weekend, it was a rose by any other name, but the concept is just novel enough (and just hard enough to explain in a user-friendly nutshell) that it counts as a semi-reinvention, and a welcome one: the festival as an a la carte buffet.
LCD Soundsystem, Boygenius and Steve Lacy are the headliners for a three-day outing hitting different regions across the U.S., where local fans need not attend all three days (and in most cases, probably won’t), but get quite a smorgasbord if they do.
In Pasadena, Lacy took the top spot the first night, followed by Boygenius on night 2 and James Murphy’s group to round things out — while the lineups rotated through similar stage setups in San Diego and San Francisco on the other weekend afternoons and evenings.
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