Here's an unlikely duo from today's performances at Pitchfork Music Festival: Brooklyn's hyper-kinetic
Matt and Kim battling for attention with the dreamy melancholy of New York's Beirut.
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| Beruit at Pitchfork Music Festival |
Beirut -- masterminded by Zachary Condon -- played with presence on the Pitchfork stage, eschewing confidence with its brass trumpets and tubas, mandolin strings and accordion keys. Barely into his mid-twenties, Condon acted like a veteran on the stage, although he did admit that the audience was the largest in front of which his mandolin had likely ever performed.
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| Kim Schifino of Matt and Kim. |
Meanwhile, on the smallest of the three stages, Matt and Kim pounded out their dance rhythms and melody, all while wearing those perma-smiles their fans have come accustomed to seeing. They too, owned the stage on which they performed. Matt owned up to making a few mistakes in Chicago in the past and dedicated their song, "Yeah Yeah," although written a few years ago, to the summer of 2009.
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| Beirut |
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| Matt and Kim |
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