Interrupted by rain, Spoon takes a wet stage and rocks the crowd

After the rains let up, Texas indie foursome Spoon took up where it had left off. Its set had opened around 6 p.m. with "Rent I Pay" from their superb new album They Want My Soul. But Spoon didn't get through a second tune before the rains came down and Day 2 of Made in America went into indefinite suspension mode.

An hour and a half later, the Britt Daniel-led, masterfully minimalist indie rock band was back, reaching back to reopen with "Small Stakes" from 2002's [ITALIC]Kill The Moonlight[/ITALIC]. They bought with them news: The festival curfew had been pushed back an hour til midnight, making room for all the scheduled bands to perform slightly truncated sets.

They also brought more rain, in this case apparently free of the threat of lightning, but more than enough to transform the festival into a soaking event testing the mettle of even the hardiest partiers. The band seemed to appreciate deeply the dedication of fans gathered before them, and may or may not have added "The Way I Get By" to the set list to give Daniel the opportunity to sing the line "we go out in stormy weather."

In any case, Spoon's sharp, angular rock songs sounded great, and the crowd got very wet.

— Dan DeLuca

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