05/09 CSS at Fine Line

CSS Setlist

CSS Suxxx

I Love You

Music Is My Hot Hot Sex

Hits Me Like A Rock

Alcohol

Move

Dynamite

F**k Everything

Hollywood (Madonna cover)

City Grrrl

Teenage Tiger Cat

Red Alert

This Month, Day 10

Let’s Reggae All Night

Let’s Make Love and Listen to Death From Above

— Encore —

I Wanna Be Your J.Lo

Art Bitch

Alala

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Brazil’s CSS (although I believe the ladies are all now resides in Los Angeles for the moment) just announced their summer tour. The show should be a fun dance party, especially if they are going to be playing songs like “Hangover” off their new…

Brazil’s CSS (Cansei de Ser Sexy) returned to the Fine Line, in Minneapolis… happy to return in over a decade.

Opening the show was Luna Muse, doing a drag show by lip-syncing to such pop song as the Ting Tings’ “That’s Not My Name”, Gwen Stefani’s “Hollaback Girl”, and La Roux’s “Bulletproof.”

CSS (25 Jun 2013)

It’s been a long time, but CSS (Lovefoxxx, Ana Rezende, Carolina Parra and Luiza Sá), has reunited and celebrating their 20th Anniversary as a band. Yes, we were there for the band, at the Fine Line, in Jun 2013, and wrote, “This marks the first time we get to see CSS minus Adriano Cintra, who left the band last year. So how has this affected CSS on their recent tour and their music on Planta? No change. CSS is still fun, dance, alternative, pop, youth music. Whatever Lovefoxxx and company is doing, the formula is still working. It was fun to watch singer Lovefoxxx undergo some “costume changes” throughout their set. The white jacket was first to go, then the long dress, the two white fans, and finally the awesome cape at the end.”

Lovefoxxx tells so many wonderful little stories about the band. For example, the first time she went to the audition for CSS, she was wearing a Motorhead T-Shirt (because she liked the design). She didn’t know any of their songs, except for “Ace of Spades”, and she had a fear that the band would question her about Motorhead. Thankfully, no one bothered to mention about the shirt.

She then asked the audience if they could name five other Motorhead songs… of course, no one in the audience could muster up an answer.

For the introduction of “Teenage Tiger Cat”, Lovefoxxx explained that when she was young, she used to write songs about sex … but as she got older, she would write songs about cats.

Throughout the show, Lovefoxxx removed layers of clothing, starting with a baggy black cover to a yellow puffy jumpsuit, to a white T-Shirt, to a full body leotard. It was fun to watch her transform, and it just tells me that the band put a lot of thought and stage presence to their shows.

For the encore, Lovefoxxx tells us the secret origin of “I Wanna Be Your J.Lo”. Apparently, the band wanted to do a cover of Sleater-Kinney’s “I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramones”, but she didn’t know the lyrics… so she threw in Jennifer Lopez’s “Jenny from The Block” with some rap lyrics to make “I Wanna Be Your J.Lo” truly a CSS classic.

CSS is so fun to see live. If you’ve never seen them, you need to see them on this tour, as it could be the last time we see the band.

Remaining tour dates:

5.11 – Denver, CO @ Marquis

5.12 – Salt Lake City, @ Kilby Block Party

5.14 – San Francisco, CA @ Independent

5.15 – Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy + Harriet’s

5.18 – Pasadena, CA @ Just Like Heaven Festival

6.22 – Glasgow, UK @ Drygate

6.23 – Manchester, UK @ New Century Hall

6.24 – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club

6.25 – Birmingham, UK @ XOYO

6.27 – London, UK @ O2 Kentish Town Forum