Waxahatchee leader Katie Crutchfield and her twin sister and Snocaps bandmate Allison share a birthday with The Good Place star D’Arcy Carden. Last year, the Crutchfield sisters and Carden threw themselves a joint birthday party at the LA venue Largo, and the resulting concert included surprise guests like Jeff Tweedy, Courtney Barnett, and Will Forte. On Sunday, the Crutchfields and Carden’s birthday rolled around again, and they played another show full of covers and surprise guests.
The Crutchfield sisters and D’Arcy Carden threw their birthday concert at LA’s El Rey Theatre. The show featured a bunch of appearances from stars of stage and screen. Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein helped cover Sonic Youth’s “Kool Thing.” Ascendant cult-pop figure Audrey Hobert joined in on a version of One Direction’s “Steal My Girl.” Will Forte returned to sing Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs.” Waxahatchee did the Cranberries’ “Dreams.” This frankly just sounds like a great time. Here’s “Dreams”:
One of the evening’s big hits appears to be the moment that MUNA leader Katie Gavin came out for “Fuck The Pain Away,” the silly-horny electroclash classic that Peaches released in 2000. The performance included synchronized hump-the-air moves from Audrey Hobert and Bowen Yang, who only just did his final SNL episode. D’Arcy Carden and the Crutchfield sisters did some choreographed moves, too. Check out some fan footage below.
Here’s Yang singing Phantom Planet’s “California“…
Here are the birthday girls doing Michelle Branch’s “Everywhere”…
And Hobert doing One Direction’s “Steal My Girl”…
In other news, MUNA would like us to know that their new album is done, which that they announced by posing to Mary J. Blige’s “Family Affair” on TikTok.
Here’s the beautifully ridiculous setlist for last night’s birthday show.
SETLIST:
01 “Last Nite” (The Strokes cover)
02 “Dreams” (The Cranberries cover)
03 “Say It Ain’t So” (Weezer cover)
04 “Celebrity Skin” (Hole cover)
05 “If It Makes You Happy” (Sheryl Crow cover, with Whitmer Thomas)
06 “Champagne Supernova” (Oasis cover, with Kevin Morby)
07 “Everywhere” (Michelle Branch cover)
08 “You Get What You Give” (New Radicals cover, with Kyle Mooney)
09 “Steal My Girl” (One Direction cover, with Audrey Hobert)
10 “Overkill” (Men At Work cover, with Sam Richardson)
11 “Fuck The Pain Away” (Peaches cover, with Katie Gavin)
12 “Kool Thing” (Sonic Youth cover, with Carrie Brownstein)
13 “The Distance” (Cake cover)
14 “California” (Phantom Planet cover, with Bowen Yang)
15 “War Pigs” (Black Sabbath cover, with Will Forte)
16 “Baba O’Riley” (The Who cover, with all the guests)
