“If you ask me, this is a kick-(butt) place to put a concert,” 311 singer Nick Hexum said, his heartthrob smile beaming in the wind coming off the Intracoastal past SunFest’s pbpulse.com Stage tonight.
Why, thank you, man! We think so, too! That’s why we do it every year around this time!
The Omaha-bred reggae/rock/punk band was the headliner of the annual waterfront festival’s second New Music Night.
While they aren’t the least bit new, the fusion hitmakers (“All Mixed Up,” “Love Song,” “Come Original,” “Yellow”) certainly set the tone for the younger bands of the evening with their laid-back, cross-genre groove.
No matter what the mixture of styles, most bands today inspired that patented jam band audience dance, that’s sort of a foot-planted cha-cha, with optional head bop.
“We had a couple of days off at the beach, and we are officially recharged,” Hexum explained, which covers how the five-man band had the juice to jump straight up in the air, like musical human pogo sticks.
Among the standouts among the actually new or newish acts: Kinky, who are what Duran Duran had been had they been born in 1980s in Mexico and been huge Psychedelic Furs fans; Miami’s sublime old school hip-hop folkies Solillaquists of Sound and the oddly compelling Awesome New Republic, who are what Prince had been if he’d grown up with Talking Heads’ David Byrne and been into Steely Dan.
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