event Passion Pit
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Thu Jun 24
10 pm
Passion Pit at U.S. Cellular Connection Stage (Summerfest)
Passion Pit’s modest roots as a dorm-room project for frontman Michael Angelakos belie its burgeoning status as a festival and possibly arena headliner. The group showed some growing pains when it played to a sell-out crowd at Riverside Theater in spring, sometimes struggling to translate the bro-approved jams of its debut, Manners, in such a cavernous venue. But the spaces are only going to get bigger from here: Passion Pit will be back in the fall to open for Muse at the Bradley Center. In the meantime, the group’s highly danceable jams ought to keep scores of college kids grinding up on each other on Summerfest’s opening day.
U.S. Cellular Connection Stage (Summerfest) 200 N Harbor Dr, Milwaukee, WI
Passion Pit’s modest roots as a dorm-room project for frontman Michael Angelakos belie its burgeoning status as a festival and possibly arena headliner. The group showed some growing pains when it played to a sell-out crowd at Riverside Theater in spring, sometimes struggling to translate the bro-approved jams of its debut, Manners, in such a cavernous venue. But the spaces are only going to get bigger from here: Passion Pit will be back in the fall to open for Muse at the Bradley Center. In the meantime, the group’s highly danceable jams ought to keep scores of college kids grinding up on each other on Summerfest’s opening day.
Updated 01/25/2012
