Sunday, February 6, 2011

PoP Live! Tennis at Mississippi Studios Jan. 29

Tennis played all the tracks off of Cape Dory, plus three or four new tunes.
 Denver's Tennis blew through Portland last Saturday night and we have the pictures to prove it! Brooklyn's Air Waves opened things up nicely with their twangy, jangly indiepop, and can count Tennis as big fans, as Alaina and Patrick were in the crowd enthusiastically cheering on their tour mates. Portland's own Dirty Mittens whipped the home-town audience into a dance inferno as front woman Chelsea's upbeat, infectious charm, had the crowd up and gyrating. Their disco-pop reminded me of Sweden's great Concretes, without any of the Scandinavian existential ennui. Tennis took things down a notch, but sounded great nonetheless. Alaina talked with the crowd a bit, and even announced that her high school math teacher was in attendance. Tennis' set was tight and they sounded great. I will definitely be seeing them again soon.

Alaina from Tennis hopped on stage and sang backing vocals on one of the last songs of Air Waves' set.

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