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Had Matt and Kim not headlined the Village Voice’s 10th annual Siren Music Festival, held Saturday at Coney Island in Brooklyn, NY, they probably couldn’t have played at all. The twosome took the stage at around 7:45PM, by which time the sun had mercifully begun to set and the temperatures to dip into the mid 80s. The weather was as right for a dance party as it was going to get, and the drum-and-synth duo took full advantage of the relative cool.
As the Notorious B.I.G.’s ‘Where Brooklyn At?’ blared over the PA, keyboardist Matt Johnson and drummer Kim Schifino bounded out from backstage and ran to their instruments, rallying a crowd that had been marinating in sweat, beer and sunscreen for the better part of eight hours. Playing to what they said was the largest home-borough audience of their career, the Brooklyn-based musicians barely blinked and couldn’t stop beaming. There’s not a pair of cheerleaders, figure skaters or makeup salespeople in America with half this band’s enthusiasm.
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